<div>Hi Amara,</div> <div>I understand your bitterness and disappointment towards Italy,</div> <div>but I think you have raw feelings right now, I completly sympathize with you completely,</div> <div>after all I left my own country. I don't understand your extreme negative view though, the situation is not bad. I left 13 years ago and even if it is a little while, I cannot imagine the country changed completly in few years. The south of Italy is almost a complete different world as you reported in your past entry.</div> <div>Bologna, were I went to college is a wonderful city and in its University (the oldest in world) the general Physics class had about 300 students in it when I was there.</div> <div> </div> <div>Talking about statistics, here some about Italian science (statistics have limitations of course but they give an idea)...</div> <div>Italy doesn't seem to score to bad give its size....</div> <div><A
href="http://www.in-cites.com/research/2003/june_9_2003-1.html">http://www.in-cites.com/research/2003/june_9_2003-1.html</A></div> <div>For example in space science, the Italian contribution (between 1998-2002) to worldwide articles in the field is about 18 % above world average.</div> <div>Italy has ranking 7th in the Essential Science Indicators list that contains 145 countries.</div> <div><A href="http://www.in-cites.com/countries/2006allfields.html">http://www.in-cites.com/countries/2006allfields.html</A></div> <div>No bad....</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><BR><B><I>Amara Graps <amara@amara.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I slightly changed the subject line because I made a mistake with it,<BR>too quick. Of course large parts of the world are still not included.<BR>Also the statistics were from 1999, before
all of the new EU member<BR>countries entered. I should have rearranged the rows to include them<BR>properly under the EU heading.<BR><BR>giovanni santost santostasigio at yahoo.com :<BR>>For what concerns the economical ones, for example, it seems <BR>>impossible that >several 3rd world countries are more "competitive" <BR>>than Italy.<BR><BR>Which? Its broken infrastructure does not make Italy a modern country.<BR><BR>When was the last time you tried to set up a business in Italy? I looked<BR>into it, and ... it's not very different from trying to get a permesso di<BR>soggiorno in terms of complexity and complications and time. And the<BR>taxes are horrendous. I can set up a business in Latvia in a fraction<BR>of the time I would need in Italy and the taxes are considerably less.<BR>In Estonia (one of the strongest business climates in Europe now),<BR>I can do it in even less time.<BR><BR>I suggest to visit Turkey to see what an emerging new European
country<BR>looks like. Please notice the ease of public transportation in Istanbul,<BR>the high energy business climate, the cleanliness. And I've spent a fair<BR>bit of time in Switzerland (I almost went to Bern instead of deciding to<BR>go go Boulder) in the last few years (have you?), I'm not surprised one<BR>bit by Switzerland's rating.<BR><BR>>About the readings, again, statistics are fine, but believe me every<BR>>European (or anybody from anywhere else) that comes to US immediately<BR>>notices how uneducated people in general are.<BR><BR>I already commented on the heterogenity of reading habits in different<BR>US places. (Have you ever lived in the SF Bay area?). My point was comparing<BR>Italian reading habits to other Europeans. And everyone here knows<BR>that I prefer to live in Europe much more than the US, and why.<BR><BR>>The educated people in Italy, in particular scientists are extremely<BR>>well rounded.<BR><BR>Of the rare few that exist,
Yes. Remember too that PhDs<BR>were not given in Italy until early-middle 1980s, so you will never<BR>find an Italian PhD scientist above the age of 50 who earned their PhD<BR>in Italy. And yes, I've already commented some number of times here<BR>and in the wta list on Italian's education focus in the Classics.<BR>(for example: <BR>http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2007-June/035945.html)<BR><BR>>And about the common people, well one day I was on a bus with a book of<BR>>Nietzsche and the driver started to talk to me (while I was holding for<BR>>my life to the rail in the front of the bus, lol) and said that he read<BR>>that book.<BR><BR>The waiter serving my colleagues and I in Boulder knew the difference<BR>between several models of string theory (and he wasn't a scientist).<BR>But then I wouldn't have chosen that place (Boulder) to make this particular<BR>big move (It's a recovery strategy from Italy) if I did not know already<BR>very well the
highly educated level of the people in that town.<BR>(I used to live there 25 years ago)<BR><BR>The typical Frascati, Italy scenario is the local 20s something person<BR>who thinks that a truck driver is a more useful and interesting profession<BR>than an atmospheric scientist studying climatology.. I'm sure that he<BR>could quote Augustus, but he wouldn't know the difference between...,<BR>ok never mind, that's another story, and I don't have time.<BR><BR>Ciao,<BR>Amara<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>extropy-chat mailing list<BR>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> __________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com