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I've neverreally felt represented by the political class in Italy. New, and young, faces hardly showing up, there is still the old class that came out of the second replublic (and during it) in control. Many of them are the so called chuildren of the 68 who ended up doing the exact opposite of what they said they believed in, obne grown up, and even i new faces show up, like Grillo and his Movimento 5 stelle, well, I feel like they easily got mnypulated by the system, falling victims to it. PROMISES, promises, ut once in Rome, the most prominent party at the last election quickly lost followers, who felt that they leaders became just as the ones tehy wanted to take the place of.
And meanwhile, do you know how the rest of the world sees us? I'll tell you, as someone who looks at foreign television a lot. They don't see us as mafia, pizza and mandolino any longer. Oh, no.
Now, the way people sees us is by Berlusconi.
Just this week, at the David Letterman Show (CBS):
"One of the most said sentence at the last G20? 'Look, whores, let's thank Berlusconi!'"
And one year and an half in New Guirl, a sitcom on Fox? The main character, Jess, is a 31 years old teacher; one evening, she is having dinner at her place with her boyfriend and her flatmatwe, Nicholas, and his "girlfriend", and when she discovrs that she is just 18, and that three years before she has been her teacher, she refered to Nick as Berlusconi more then once trough the episode, because he is dating a barely legal girl...