And’ question of culture. I've often heard this statement recently commented on by the most disparate discussions regarding southern Italy as opposed to the rest of our country, northern Europe or other parts of the world. This statement is becoming a sort of mantra recited to convince ourselves that culture is a genetic fact; we are born a certain way at certain latitudes! But it's not like this! Plato'smyth of the cave a test. Most of us can very well be associated with the immobilized prisoner, few are those who manage to get out of the cave.
The change is a long process, cultural changes above all. Probably if we started changing our habits today, perhaps it would benefit our children, if not our grandchildren, precisely because it is cultural changes are long, very long processes!
There are no genes or diseases transmitted at conception that mean that those born in the south of this country cannot aspire to live in a social system, political and cultural that gives him dignity. We look with admiration and envy at those who live in the so-called “other Italy” but we persist in not wanting to change. Cultural change costs sacrifices but not the sacrifices that the rulers of the day impose on us, cultural change involves changing our habits, our lifestyle, the way we think and see things.
