Sunday, November 28, 2010
Leaking Clear Fluid During Period
La Pista di Terra Rossa. Seconda parte.
Scrivere qualcosa sull’Africa è impossibile. I luoghi comuni sull’Africa sono molteplici. Ne ho già parlato a proposito delle giornate missionarie della domenica in Italia e della crescita esponenziale di NGO e ONLUS che danno dell’Africa un’immagine distorta.
Anche l’industria Tourism Africa sells very specific and false: the myth of pristine wilderness and the people who live happy and dancing, white coral sand beaches, natural parks where safari venturing into romantic, picturesque markets, emerald green lakes, waterfalls, thriving water, mountains and forests of an enchanted world and now lost in a postmodern and post-industrialization West.
During the 2010 World Cup in South Africa the image of African girls in skimpy clothes sadly predominated in advertising, by African institutions themselves, tourism and local travel agencies.
The idea of \u200b\u200bthe exotic, tempers are the philosophies of Rousseau "noble savage" Wish stormy and dreaming of the European Romantics, the turbid and perverse writings of the French decadent late nineteenth century, the mythic and modern readings of Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad, Karen Blixen. In the literature written by white natives of Africa are just extras and actors are colonists, explorers, hunters, adventurers, coffee farmers from the Western world. These stories are as fascinating as ambiguous and need to understand why we are drawn from Africa, because they were born the myths of the "mal d'Africa". You do not need to understand the identity of the African peoples, on the contrary.
Breath of the stunted glory works of Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate 1986, when I lived in Nigeria's, or Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel 1988, or by Nadine Gordimer, Nobel 1991, and will not change the stereotypes of European metaculture Africa.
In June 2008, the Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina published the short essay "How to Write about Africa" \u200b\u200b(http://www.granta.com/Magazine/92/How-to-Write-about-Africa/Page-1) . The text is satirical and speaks of clichés about Africa. It 'a kind of manifesto, in the form of parody, of what should be avoided when it comes to Africa. In interviews following the publication Wainaina tells of the many foreigners who send the letters to get her lit giudizio, una licenza di scrittura, quasi il permesso di scrivere prima di pubblicare i propri saggi. Oggi quegli stessi occidentali che hanno “rubato” l’Africa, l’hanno schiavizzata, occupata, colonizzata, sezionata e inventata anche sul piano semiotico, forse tardivamente pentiti, hanno bisogno del permesso dei nativi, una sorta di patente del “politicamente corretto”.
Anche gli scrittori africani usano, quasi sempre, le lingue dei colonizzatori: l’inglese prevalentemente, poi il francese, ma anche il portoghese, lo spagnolo; a volte, di rado, l’italiano. Molto spesso vivono nella libertà del mondo occidentale: negli USA, nel Regno Unito, in Francia. Vincono premi e ricevono finanziamenti dal mondo culturale e accademico occidentale. Scrivono per un pubblico colto che spesso non è africano, ma straniero. E queste sono contraddizioni che bisogna saper cogliere. E un altro rischio che si corre quando si scrive di cose africane è quello di dare sempre ragione all’Africa e agli africani, non saper vedere le loro colpe come causa delle loro disgrazie. Colpe che sono numerose quasi quanto i delitti perpetrati dal mondo occidentale nei confronti degli africani.
L’Africa è composta da 53 nazioni. Ognuna è diversa dall’altra. Pensare che gli africani siano tutti uguali è un’assurdità. In Africa esistono più di duemila lingue e ogni popolo ha la sua specifica identità culture: it is hard to find a common feature of all. Many authors think of music as Richard Dowden suggests in the introduction to his book "Africa. Altered states, ordinary miracles ", but I do not agree. The music changes radically from one country to another.
see Italy on a map. Separated from the rest of Europe from the Alps to our country looks like a bridge stretching out into the Mediterranean to the African continent. With 20 minutes by hydrofoil from Italy you go to the coast of Africa, in Tunis. Yet we know all of New York, its yellow cabs, Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller Center and we know nothing of the continent that lies before us, in a flight cage, and which is great hundred times in Italy.
I do a road trip in the coming days. I have in mind a detour from the main road. Some I recommend it for its great beauty, others say leave it alone. On the one hand there is the possibility to cross a thick jungle, come out on a vast green plateau first and then a rocky encounter herds of elephants in freedom, see the sea from the green hills and breathe in the air.
other hand, if it rained, the road could be a river, the fords of the river difficult, a mud bog unsurpassed, the stretch in the forest full of obstacles, a desert plateau hostile by dry powder.
are one hundred kilometers of red dirt track.
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Paul Giunta La Spada
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Wedding Invitations Casual Funny
Doing business in Italy? Global
L'intento di questo blog è di presentare diverse prospettive sul tema dell'imprenditorialità in Italia con un taglio, se vogliamo, interno, cercando di vestire i panni degli individui che fanno impresa o che sono interessati a fare impresa. Quando si contestualizza il processo di fare impresa in Italia quel che emerge è la mancanza di cultura imprenditoriale, la mancanza di politiche volte alla promozione all'imprenditorialità, l'incapacità del paese di mantenere i migliori cervelli e metterli al frutto di un sistema economico virtuoso and so on.
There is, however, a fact that is particularly disappointing and disheartening for young Italians who want to take this path, and structural concerns sensitive issues in the country: the tax burden for businesses.
The World Bank has today published the report Paying Taxes 2011 and the picture one gets is shocking and depressing at the same time in Italy you pay, proportionately, more than 50% more how much it pays on average in other European countries (68.6% versus 44.2%).
How willing spirit of our young people can be encouraged to do business in Italy?
L'intento di questo blog è di presentare diverse prospettive sul tema dell'imprenditorialità in Italia con un taglio, se vogliamo, interno, cercando di vestire i panni degli individui che fanno impresa o che sono interessati a fare impresa. Quando si contestualizza il processo di fare impresa in Italia quel che emerge è la mancanza di cultura imprenditoriale, la mancanza di politiche volte alla promozione all'imprenditorialità, l'incapacità del paese di mantenere i migliori cervelli e metterli al frutto di un sistema economico virtuoso and so on.
There is, however, a fact that is particularly disappointing and disheartening for young Italians who want to take this path, and structural concerns sensitive issues in the country: the tax burden for businesses.
The World Bank has today published the report Paying Taxes 2011 and the picture one gets is shocking and depressing at the same time in Italy you pay, proportionately, more than 50% more how much it pays on average in other European countries (68.6% versus 44.2%).
How willing spirit of our young people can be encouraged to do business in Italy?
Greek Tortoise For Sale
The red dirt track.
In Italy we speak little of Africa. Even less of Africans in Castel Volturno even the massacre has been forgotten ( http://www.nigrizia.it/sito/notizie_pagina.aspx?Id=10091&IdModule=1 ).
In our country, Africa is often represented by commercials that invite you to charity. On TV or in newspapers appeared the image of a poor child and loser, skinny, skinny, with big eyes and blacks, and the number below the photo of a current account. Africa is associated with the idea of \u200b\u200bpoverty, tragedy, illness and death, the idea of \u200b\u200baid: there are thousands of NGOs, NGOs, created to "help the children of Africa." Try to search the Internet, present a distorted image of Africa to mop up funds that do not always reach the people of Africa.
Even in churches on Sundays, they ask money for missionaries in Africa (again with the picture of baby with big eyes and lost).
It 's true, Africa is poor, desperately poor (http://paologls.blogspot.com/2010/02/le-terre-di-nessuno-la-teoria-delle.html ).
It 's also true that the poor, terribly poor, there are also here, in Italy, and there are many. But no mention of these: it hurts the government, which prefers to hide in shame, and self-righteous that it hurts to ignore them as not to disturb their peaceful social peace. In addition, almost all African countries there are many rich and above all very middle class that has the same problems and often the same style of life of our middle class (public or private schools of choice for children, mortgage the house to be paid, rate machine each month). For the average Italian and European African middle class does not exist, there are only Africans to help poor and a rich dictator must be condemned. All the others are not.
Also Africa is not poor at all: gold, oil, diamonds, iron, coal, tin, copper, coltan, timber, fruit, tea, coffee. Africans are often to be poor in a land that is rather quite rich.
Nothingness
Africa is also associated with the idea of \u200b\u200bNothing: A day in Rome Trastevere in my school a student of 18 years asked me, school year 2008/2009, "prof, but as unable to make gasoline in Africa? "confirming that the imagination of many young people, Africa is the same as described by the colonialists in the late nineteenth century, a wild and hostile place with no civilization, no space without a shape di alcuna urbanizzazione, le città inesistenti, a benzina introvabile.
sapeva Non il nostro alunno (Capito ... poi l'ha) in Africa esistono che alcune tra le più Grandi metropoli del pianeta: Lagos: 16 million abitanti di: Il Cairo 15 million, 8.5 million Kinshasa, Johannesburg Khartoum e 5 ognuna million, Nairobi, Addis Ababa Alessandria d'Egitto e ciascuna 4 million, Casablanca Abidjan e 3.5, e poi Kano, Ibadan e Città del Capo ciascuna con 3 million, Algeri, Dar es Salam, Dakar, Durban, Luanda, Conakry , Tripoli, Accra, Rabat, Kaduna, Maputo, Freetown, Lubumbashi, Brazzaville, joining, Port Harcourt, Bamako, Antananarivo, Mogadiscio, Kampala e Maiduguri are all huge cities with millions of inhabitants. Moreover, many Italians
retain the image of Africa handed down by the propaganda of the colonial past: a land of savages who were waiting anxiously to be freed civilization from barbarism. Of Africa is still little known: "Hic sunt leones" wrote the cartographers of the Middle Ages on the maps of the time not knowing what else to imagine.
How do you deny that the white fascination for travelers in Africa was made precisely with the unknown, from large areas unexplored by nature as hostile as incredibly beautiful? Even now, descriptions of Africa focus on the magnitude of the vast savannas, deserts and forests, the skies of puffy clouds low on the move, and colorful on the intractable forms of vegetation barely crossed by narrow and mysterious trails of red earth. Me too, sometimes, happen to move me if I am driving on a red dirt track in the middle of a dense forest. I like it when I can overcome the worst case due to my rather worn guidance system. Sometimes I cross the street and a dik-dik, a group of ostriches running beside me, meeting with the quick look at a family of elephants, I stop the car, turn off the engine, listening absorbed the sounds of the natural world, walking in silence to follow a herd of animals and observe closely, il cuore che batte. Studio con gli occhi arsi dalla polvere il fondo della pista cercando di capire se la macchia che vedo in fondo all’orizzonte è fango, o pietra, o ghiaia, o un tronco d’albero messo apposta per fermare la mia corsa e far finire il viaggio per sempre, proprio lì in quel punto. Se la sagoma in fondo è un animale o una persona; un cacciatore di frodo, cioè uno che mi può accoppare, o un pastore con le sue capre e i cammelli. In un’Africa sempre più fatta di metropoli e modernità, shopping mall e collegamenti wifi, la pista solitaria di terra rossa, con i suoi colori e abbagli, è ancora un classico topos dell’avventura, l’incontro con l’ignoto, il gorgo di paura e adrenalina, la sfida con noi stessi.
Ma poi succede che di piste di terra rossa ne faccio così tante che alla fine perdono tutte il loro presunto fascino, dopo 8 ore di guida sogno l’asfalto, spero solo di non bucare, non vedo l’ora di arrivare al villaggio seguente, autoservizio, un piatto di nyama choma, doccia (calda o fredda che sia).
La pista di terra rossa è come la radio a batteria. Trovi ovunque, in Africa, anche nei luoghi più sperduti, un uomo con una radio a batteria. E poi un pick-up Toyota. E tanti bambini. Ogni cielo con la luce forte del sole e il giallo ocra delle case di terra nasconde il senso di una fisicità forte, colorata. Il sudore, il corpo, la maternità. Il mistero della natura ostile e benigna nello stesso tempo. Il destino. La lotta eroica e solitaria contro gli elementi e la rassegnazione al destino. Samba Traorè, il protagonista del film di Idrissa Ouedrago, è un uomo che si piega al destino con virilità. Il pick-up dei militari lo porta via sulla consueta pista di terra rossa. La moglie rimarrà fedele per sempre. L’amico si farà sparare per salvarlo. In Africa i sentimenti sono roba seria. E anche le vendette.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Wart Inside Dogs Mouth
Entrepreneurship Week
The GEW is an international event that promotes a culture of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education. Throughout the week in many countries around the world there will be meetings and events related to issues dear to this blog. Let me point
this event to be held at Alma Graduate School 's University of Bologna whose theme is the networking element that its importance has been the guiding GCEC also held some weeks ago at the Smeal Business School of Penn State. Entrepreneurship
it!
The GEW is an international event that promotes a culture of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education. Throughout the week in many countries around the world there will be meetings and events related to issues dear to this blog. Let me point
this event to be held at Alma Graduate School 's University of Bologna whose theme is the networking element that its importance has been the guiding GCEC also held some weeks ago at the Smeal Business School of Penn State. Entrepreneurship
it!
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