Mike, Stu
and list,
What
Stu says about Italy is really true. I spent 2 weeks there last year, and I cannot wait
to see more of it. The people are some of the friendliest on the planet. You need to free yourself from that Matteo nonsense and just get back to the good old USA safely.
God speed,
CharlyV
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Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Pardon me, dude
In a message dated 12/10/2003
11:43:34 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I hope other Italians are not like
you.
Mike,
As my best friend - who now lives in Italy - married an Italian girl, and I was
lucky enough to be invited over there to be his Best Man and had an amazing
time (I think, there was so much wine a lot of the wedding reception is a bit
of a blur to be honest...!), I can assure you that Italians are generous,
family-loving, passionate and considerate peple on the whole. True, they drive
like absolute lunatics, and have tempers that can ignite like a Saturn 5
engine, and can't walk past a shop window without checking themselves out (but
you can't blame them for that when 99% of them look like they've just come off
a catwalk anyway ;-) I think they must ship all the ugly kids off to some
island somewhere, cos seriously, everyone is a supermodel; walking down an Italian
street is so distracting it's unbelievable..! ) but you'll be hard pressed to
meet a more welcoming people, believe me. I know you're being severely provoked
here, by some truly disgraceful and despicable insults, but don't tar them all
with the same brush, ok? That's like saying all we Brits are umbrella-carrying,
pinstripe-suit wearing, bowler-hatted hee-haws... or that all Americans are
Hawaiian shirt-wearing, burger-chomping, gun-toting... well, you get the idea.
Stereotypes... dangerous things, you know?
The world's an angry enough place right now as it is without hurling this kind
of language about. It's hard not to rise to it, I know, but in situations like
this there's much more dignity in taking a deep breath and not stooping to the
other guy's level. I think - no, I know - you're a better man than that.
Take care out there, and forget this nonsense and just try to keep your mind on
getting out - and back here to your friends on the List - in one piece, ok? :-)
Stu
