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Wednesday, October 30, 2002 Now that I've been rebounding for 45 minutes I am so energized that I'll probably stay up all night. In the meantime, I am reading up on one of my favorite columns: Italians by Beppe Severgnini. So far, my attention has been caught mainly by two topics: the antiamerican feeling throughout Europe and the issuance of Italian passports to Argentinians. I'll skip on the first one for the time being and go straight to the second one: a lot of Italians seem to think that most Argentinians ae applying for an Italian passport not out of love and admiration for the country but rather out of poverty and need. Well, duh! I wonder if the hordes of Europeans who landed on our shores years ago were motivated by a deep passion for our countries or maybe a sophisticated curiosity for an exotic culture or were simply escaping abject poverty or war or political persecution. I wonder what would have happened if Argentina, or Uruguay for that matter, had required them to master the Spanish language before allowing them to live and work among us. Actually, maybe we should kick them out now given that, decades later, many of them still can't speak the language. 12:26 AM
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