So today it rained and rained and rained. It also rained some more and was pretty cold. On a regular Saturday morning this wouldn’t be a problem. However, this Saturday morning I had to go into to town to give a presentation.
In class I gave a presentation on the problems of Immigrants in Italy. The problem is rather straight forward. There are lots of immigrants today and most Italians don’t want them. They are coming in from East Europe, Asia, and Africa and usually dirt poor. The problem is that Italy doesn’t have any jobs for them, or for its own people for that matter. That coupled with the high levels of societal
compartmentalization and racism brings us to our current dilemma.
I however, was only the last to go and heard a number of very interesting talks first. The first one was on the current state of music in Italy. Done by an Italian girl (whose favorite band is Muse and idol Jimmy Page) it was an ironic lament on the lack of Rock music in Italy. Part of the problem is it is hard to rock out when all your words end in vowels. Another however, is that many Italians prefer lovey pop songs, or just listening to old-fashioned American Rock. Although some of her methods on collecting data were a little shaky (facebook polls of her friends) I have to agree that rock is sadly missing in the land of amore.
