My latest skype exchange was with Martina and Marigny, and our main topic was politics, with a particular attention to the election campaigns both in Italy and in the U.S. The second part of the conversation was on our future perspectives and the connection between politics and “meritocrazia” in the public administration.
First thing, we asked the American girl about her personal opinion on politics. She said she doesn’t like it and we all agreed on the fact that the Bush administration has been some kind of failure, mainly because of the war in Iraq. She doesn’t really know who she’s going to vote for and thinks the campaign is still open. I told her about the video “Obama girl” (unfortunately she hadn’t seen it), and we drew a comparison with Berlusconi’s and Veltroni’s promotional videos. The general impression is that they are all very similar, after all: they use catchy jingles and try to appeal to all social categories, thus appearing democratic and deeply concerned in the future of their country. What annoyed me the most about Obama’s video was the exploiting of the image of an appealing girl just to gain votes. Because of this ridiculous approach to politics, I have the strong feeling that all candidates strongly believe they can fool electors very easily; I personally feel they’re trying to make fun of me – actually in a very naive way. All the three of us share the discontent towards these people – no matter what party they belong to – because it seems all they care about is power and money.
As Marigny studies psychology, she would like to work with children in the future, and help them out when they have problems either at school or with their parents. Martina wishes she could become a “cultural mediator” for the "provincia". We needed to explain what that means in Italian because both terms sounded unknown to her. A cultural mediator is supposed to help foreign people to get integrated in our culture and to learn more about its institutions. The term provincia indicates an administrative unit inside each region, which has specific competences. Martigny was particularly surprised to hear that one needs to have certain conections if he wants to be hired in a public instituion like the provincia or regione. Again, the problem is that politics and public administation are too closely related, thus preventing capable people to get a good job and help their community.
First thing, we asked the American girl about her personal opinion on politics. She said she doesn’t like it and we all agreed on the fact that the Bush administration has been some kind of failure, mainly because of the war in Iraq. She doesn’t really know who she’s going to vote for and thinks the campaign is still open. I told her about the video “Obama girl” (unfortunately she hadn’t seen it), and we drew a comparison with Berlusconi’s and Veltroni’s promotional videos. The general impression is that they are all very similar, after all: they use catchy jingles and try to appeal to all social categories, thus appearing democratic and deeply concerned in the future of their country. What annoyed me the most about Obama’s video was the exploiting of the image of an appealing girl just to gain votes. Because of this ridiculous approach to politics, I have the strong feeling that all candidates strongly believe they can fool electors very easily; I personally feel they’re trying to make fun of me – actually in a very naive way. All the three of us share the discontent towards these people – no matter what party they belong to – because it seems all they care about is power and money.
As Marigny studies psychology, she would like to work with children in the future, and help them out when they have problems either at school or with their parents. Martina wishes she could become a “cultural mediator” for the "provincia". We needed to explain what that means in Italian because both terms sounded unknown to her. A cultural mediator is supposed to help foreign people to get integrated in our culture and to learn more about its institutions. The term provincia indicates an administrative unit inside each region, which has specific competences. Martigny was particularly surprised to hear that one needs to have certain conections if he wants to be hired in a public instituion like the provincia or regione. Again, the problem is that politics and public administation are too closely related, thus preventing capable people to get a good job and help their community.
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