Newsgroup: it.sport.calcio.milan
Titolo: [OT] [eng] - Studentessa americana sul giallo di Perugia

E` un articolo del New York Times divertente, parla degli stereotipi 
italiani e americani incrociati dopo quanto successo a Perugia. Copper che 
ne pensi?:)
http://tinyurl.com/ypcc7s
Carolina72
------
By SOPHIE EGAN
Published: December 5, 2007
Bologna, Italy
THIS city is a porticoed, often eerie and shadowy medieval place, the 
setting of many Italian mystery novels and even a John Grisham thriller. As 
a college student spending part of my junior year abroad, I haven't always 
felt completely safe here. But then came news of the sexual assault and 
killing of a British student, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia. The police are 
holding her American roommate, Amanda Knox, and Ms. Knox's Italian boyfriend 
as suspects. Now, this place seems to be a little wary of me.
Every day brings a new headline or television report about Amanda Knox. 
"Man-hunter, insatiable in bed," was the first line in an article in 
Corriere della Sera, Italy's leading daily newspaper. "She lives only for 
pleasure," La Repubblica reported.
Not only is Perugia, like Bologna, a university city that is considered one 
of the premier places for language and culture study abroad, but Amanda is a 
girl my exact age, 20, from my hometown, Seattle. Because of her story, 
which has dominated the news in Europe, and not just in the tabloids, life 
as an American student abroad is not at all what I expected.
I came here imagining I'd have to answer the numerous questions about the 
war, our unpopular president and our cultural exports that still dominate 
Italian television. Italians love to argue. And while I have had many 
late-night discussions about America's failings, it's been nothing like the 
storm of more personal attention that has come with Ms. Knox's arrest.
A few days after the Nov. 1 murder, Corriere della Sera ran a story about 
Seattle that described it as known for rain, dark forests and a high number 
of serial killers. The paper even went so far as to suggest that Kurt 
Cobain, the singer for Nirvana who committed suicide in Seattle, may have 
been the inspiration for Amanda's "refined grunge" style and interest in 
drugs.
I love my hometown. My tiny room here, which I am told was once part of the 
former servants' quarters of a wealthy Emilia-Romagna merchant family, is 
plastered in pictures of Mount Rainier, Puget Sound and the Space Needle. I've 
always been excited to tell people where I am from. At the beginning of the 
semester I would usually say, "Yeah, I'm from Seattle. You know ... 
Starbucks? Nirvana? Boeing? Bill Gates?"
These don't get much reaction.
"'Grey's Anatomy?'"
"Ahh, si si si! See-att-tole! Of course, 'Grey's Anatomy'!" (Let me just say 
that Dr. McDreamy is even dreamier dubbed in a deep Italian baritone.)
Since this murder, to be a college student from Seattle has become shorthand 
for something else. Ms. Knox has been called "una bugiarda" (liar), "L'Americana," 
or my personal favorite, "La Luciferina."
Even worse, her image-destroying online postings, in which she appears to be 
inebriated, have become part of this media circus. Italians have gotten all 
too well acquainted with "la studentessa di Seattle" (thanks again for the 
great press). Laughing about her constantly changing alibi, they now often 
refer to her just as "Amanda."
And of course there was that unfortunate online name she gave herself: 
"Foxyknoxy."
So these days I am not exactly shouting the name of my hometown to 
bystanders in the piazza. "You're from Seattle?" people will say. "Isn't 
that where that wild American student is from?" Anticipating the next 
question, I quickly add, "And no, I don't know her."
American college students already have to live down a stereotype of their 
own making. Hordes of them drunkenly parade - or literally pub crawl - past 
Renaissance masterpieces on the streets of Florence at 4 a.m., shouting 
clichés like "Ciao, bella!" and "La vita è bella!" Add in our often 
laughable pronunciation of Dante's beautiful language and our sinfully 
casual dress - the North Face fleece college uniform sharing the streets 
with Dolce & Gabbana-strutting Italian babes - and you can see why it's an 
uphill struggle.
It's bad enough that the dollar is at a record low and that President Bush 
is about as popular here as Chinese food. Not to mention, I'm always trying 
to explain that "The O.C." isn't real life and that's not how most people in 
the United States live.
Now throw in the blue-eyed studentessa, a poster girl for college 
debauchery. To read the articles about Amanda Knox, you would think that all 
American students are hash-smoking party girls with little memory of their 
weekends.
This makes the foreign immersion process so much more difficult. We college 
students come here to learn Italian, study new things, live on our own 
outside the American cocoon, experience the culture and form relationships 
with the people and the country. And Bologna should be the perfect place for 
this. Umberto Eco is a professor here, at what claims to be the world's 
oldest university, and Prime Minister Romano Prodi lives down the street in 
a rather typical ochre-colored Bolognese house. Plus, a pizza margherita, at 
under three euros, is one of the most affordable eating pleasures in the 
world.
So, I haven't given up. This country has far too much to offer for me to let 
an incident like this tarnish my experience. Sure, answering the question 
"Where are you from?" is a bit more awkward, but it certainly gets the 
conversations going. And after all, that is what I came here to do.
Sophie Egan is a junior at Stanford. 

 
http://tinyurl.com/ypcc7s
Copper credo che stia in pigiama sotto le coperte, ora.
-- 
Club "ArraPato". Tessera # 2

 Sophie Egan is a junior at Stanford.
Letto tutto, ottima analisi
-- 
http://tinyurl.com/rdgcl

 E` []
sei aperta dietro?

 Sophie Egan is a junior at Stanford.
mah, io ci vedo un mucchio di cagate di una che fa l'americana
perseguitata..
ma chi vi caga
(poi la parte su grey's anatomy è proprio da ceffoni)

 Letto tutto, ottima analisi
Sembra scritto paro paro da una studentessa di Napoli
-- 
http://nobiltajuventina.blogspot.com/
 

pizza, bafi nero, mandollino !


 studentessa di Napoli
sempre viva!
-- 
Impazzisce la Milano rossonera, impazzisce Milano in generale
Atene 23/05/2007
questo articolo e` stato inviato via web dal servizio gratuito 
http://www.newsland.it/news
 segnala gli abusi ad 
ab...@newsland.it

 bafi nero
rotfl


 rotfl
mi auguro che tu l'abbia letto con accento di un inglese che cerca di 
parlare italiano, altrimenti non c'è una mazza da ridere.


 parlare italiano, altrimenti non c'è una mazza da ridere.
difatti ridevo per il fatto che ci sia gente che porti ancora i baffi nel
2007


 sei aperta dietro?
io no, ma tua madre di certo. Non si spiegherebbe altrimenti da dove sia 
uscito tu...
Carolina72 

 io no, []
non ci credo.
dimostralo.

 porti 
*ta


 world.
Troglodita di un'ammericana, si vede che mangi hot dog e patatine da
quando sei nata!

 quando sei nata!
Va beh, dai, non trattare così la povera Carolina
-- 
http://tinyurl.com/rdgcl

 Va beh, dai, non trattare cosě la povera Carolina
lol
l'articolo non l'ho scritto io, ad ognuna i suoi lillini
Carolina72 

 *ta
Ossignur..
:-DDDDD
-- 


 Sophie Egan is a junior at Stanford. 
brava, articolo divertente
però ho il terrore che 'sta ragazza sia sulla via per diventare una 
Severgnini americana in gonnella, qualcuno di Bologna la salvi! :-)
grazie Carolina, posta ancora cose remarkable nella lingua di 
Shakespeare e Hatley

 Sophie Egan is a junior at Stanford.
mah, io ci vedo un mucchio di cagate di una che fa l'americana
perseguitata..
--------
Quoto. 

 e Hatley
quello e' americano, tutta un'altra lingua... 

 quello e' americano, tutta un'altra lingua...
no, basta con 'sta discussione!

 no, basta con 'sta discussione!
no, ancora!! 

 no, ancora!!
seeeeee
tra l'altro per sentire una pronuncia sublime, qualcuno ha il link di un 
video di Rino che parla nella lingua di Lord Tennyson e Don Lurio?

 no, ancora!!
se ne era già parlato qua:
http://snipurl.com/1uslo

 video di Rino che parla nella lingua di Lord Tennyson e Don Lurio?
ci deve essere in giro un video di rutelli che parla inglese sul portale 
italia.it... 

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:5rnt66F...@mid.individual.net...

eccolo:
http://tinyurl.com/2c6q9h
 

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:4756be30$1...@newsgate.x-privat.org...

e secondo te io il 16 agosto dovrei seguire un thread sull'inglese?? :D 

 
http://tinyurl.com/2c6q9h
il link non funge, ma il video l'avevo visto
però Gattuso è introvabile

 e americani incrociati dopo quanto successo a Perugia. Copper che ne pensi?:)
C'e' sempre del vero in tutti i stereotipi. Avendo vissuto vicino a 
Perugia, ed avuto amici ed amiche stranieri che hanno fatto un'  
esperienza come questa ragazza non mi e' difficile credere a molto di 
quello che scrive - e' innnegabile che, per chi non viaggia, l'immagine 
di un posto lontano e' dato dalla tv - che sia Seattle Orange County, 
Napoli o Milano, e purtroppo l'ignoranza e' universale.
Detto questo, forse esistevano anche quando vivevo in italia, ma non mi 
ricordo mai un interesse cosi' viscerale della stampa italiana per i 
fatti di Cronaca, da Erba a Perugia. L'importante e' che a morire sia 
una donna, e, si spera, con motivazioni sessuali.