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0 pointsengineeringwoke4y ago0 comments

Because Italy is an elderly care state with a hierarchy that is so rigid it might even impress the Japanese. No wonder everyone young leaves or becomes an extremist.

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annyeonghada4y ago

>Because Italy is an elderly care state with a hierarchy that is so rigid it might even impress the Japanese.

This is the best description of my homeland I've ever seen. By reading the Italian news one would think the main enemy of the Italian State are young people that are constantly berated, ridiculed and forced to keep hearing how lazy they are.

mmarq4y ago

If I get stabbed in Italy the newspaper would title “A 34 year old boy has been stabbed in the park”, if a 18 year old get stabbed in the UK the newspaper would title “A 18 year old man has been…”

reducesuffering4y ago

Wow. Italy's demographics are basically reverse pyramid in just a decade. New babies are still precipitously falling off a cliff. There are actually an astonishing number of 80+ year old women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Italy#/media/F...

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