Is what I think many Italians have with regard to North American culture.
It's kinda tragic actually.
Not to say that there aren't a billion and two things that are backward in this bureaucratic, slow, near-stagnant country, but to go and idealize all that is American, and disdain all that is Italian... That's just crazy-speak.
The most recent example, yesterday, talking about Halloween vs. Carnevale. Yesterday, as I was (kinda) complaining that there's no trick-or-treating in Italy, not in any way implying that the country is inferior, just simply that it's a fun thing for kids, that I loved it as a kid, and that I took Seb and Lucas to my work to the faculty kids' Halloween party in order to give them this part of my culture that I loved.
And I was shocked to hear them start dissing Carnevale saying it's a backward holiday, Medieval, that Italy is behind.
Yeah. Crazy, huh?
I know.
They are two sides of a similar currency - the coin being a very old religious festival that is made fun for children.
Why in goodness' name would Halloween and trick-or-treating, a priori, be more advanced than Carnevale?
