Oggi, sullo Yale Daily News, è apparso un articolo di un corrispondente da Torino sulle Olimpiadi. In realtà il pezzo parla di altro e non certo di sport. E' un divertente spaccato sugli stereotipi degli americani (si anche la meglio gioventù educata a Yale ne ha) sull'Italia. Dalle cose che non funzionano, alla ignoranza dell'Inglese, (e fin qui come dargli torto) fino a sfondare nell'irritante con la battuta sui bagni, sulle macchine ed altro ancora. Vabbeh, io ho provato a rispondergli con un po' di ironia cosi:

one more lesson for Nick Baumann

Dear Sir

as an italian who speaks "broken english", drive an "hilariously tiny car", does not use mobiles, nor internet, nor public transportation, because they just don't work and walk around with all my scholarship in cash, 'cause banks are a new innovation we still need to import from the US (but of course i am nice too, i mean, really nice), i was delighted and entertained by the report of your correspondent in Torino (Turin, I apologize). So amused that I am thinking about volunteering to follow the next winter olympics for the YDNs. I am sure i could do a great job. Let us suppose for instance, that they would take place here in the US. I could write up a long story about fat americans swallowing junk food all the day long, driving ridiculously big, ugly and inefficient cars (also because there is hardly any public transportation that deserves this name), speaking no other language except a wired and funny declination of english called american, and jump around to find viable coverage for their cellphones, pardon mobiles. Of course they too are all very nice. I believe this would be a win-win scenario for your paper. i could very easily write the story for the YDN (the length is not an issue since i could enrich the "list of lessons" upon request) without even moving from my couch saving YDN the cost of my journey to the olympics venue. don't you think?