150 years of national unity.
Country: totality of individuals linked by the same language, history, culture, interests, esp. as aware of this common heritage. Dictionary Zanichelli.
important is the second part of the definition: spec. as aware of this common heritage . Italians are aware of?
judging by what is happening lately it seems just the opposite, but also going back in time does not change: a true national consciousness in Italy there is ever been. ever.
that more than anything else unites a people is the language . the linguistic unity has always sought since the late Middle Ages, always, however, the common language was put to use almost elite (note, you do not want to compare the vulgar Latin). fact is that the vernacular, which became the national language, was formed in a specific area circumscribed by a small group of people. Italy of the literati. Italy of the people, excuse me, the rest of the land of the people remained in their old dialects that over the centuries have suffered various influences to come to us, the myriad pieces of a puzzel unintelligible that extends from the French and tedescheggianti deep valleys of the north to the Arabian ports in Sicily.
can tirelessly extol the heroism of our ancestors who unified earth, but you certainly can not hide that true nationalism or patriotism bottom there never was.
Italy was made by the mind, but the people, the true substance of which is a country, did not participate personally in this unit and therefore not hear her own.
the unit made it big: writers, poets, great leaders .. great cultural authorities financed the foreign Garibaldi action or, indeed, arrived in Italy to fight in person, or even just to watch the fate of one thousand. . but the people, where was all this?
was where it exists today. almost indifferent. the unit find themselves wanting to celebrate and the "thinkers" that segment of the population that does not feel much for Italian patriotism or love for the land , but as moral continuity of the long tradition of artistic and philosophical literature that has always characterized the peninsula. all those whose province they never or almost lived. all the people who strive to understand it, but not live.
this is not to say they commit any sin or failure, the fact is that Italy is divided. there is nothing to be done. Italy is not united.
there is a gap (even ideological, thought) between Italy 's idea and Italy of real . two places are poles apart, not touching, perhaps touching, but never touching.
Italy 's idea is precisely that Italy's those who tell it, the watcher, that the tear with their misrule (here it comes from 'idea and enter the empty thought), while the other Italian, one of real is the country where every average citizen lives his daily life lasts. here, these two italie do not know at all, seem by their nature incompatible with each other. but only because we are in Italy. only here the average citizen can not come into contact with a culture that is not the non-television culture .
these two worlds are now more than ever in opposition and not everybody wants to stir from its axis.
is clear that the planet which should be the first to leave its orbit and the other is to go against Italy 's idea, called to recapture, or perhaps to win (finally) that people who have lost so much of its history. indeed. that nothing has experienced in its history, experienced by others in their place. for their sins, that decisions of others.
is Italy 's idea start unify this country today and unite under one banner a nation conscious of their common heritage. Italy
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