Another exchange, another topic to develop with my dear American peer and another more Italian girl, who is going to work with Artem, Sara and I in the final project. Last Wednesdays in group, we decided the topic of our project, and after a little debate we all agreed to deal with death penalty. I was the first in the group who proposed that topic; I perfectly know that it's a very sad topic to talk about but, on the other hand, I think that it's interesting and unusual, too. Research materials about it will be helpfull to understand differences between American and Italian Laws on death penality, different opinions about its validity and if death penality is still usefull to prevent or punish crimes. As far as Italy, death penalty was substituted long ago with the “ergastolo”, that is life imprisonment, but the nowadays situation is getting worse after the last law of the government called "indulto"; it's the opportunity that normally the Italian president gives to those inmates of prison after a determinate periopd of time. After this government decision the number of murders and crime is increasing and the sense of fear is being rampant across Italian society. So, at that point of view it will be interesting to analyse which is the best solution to solve that situation, according to people opinions and ideas. We will see...
In the second part of the conversation we started talk about immigration, which was the week topic we were supposed to develop togethet in the lab.
In this case Arty was an important source of information for us: he comes from Ukraine, so he could descibe us the American situation and behaviour towards immigrant and immigration in general. He explained to us that he doesn’t consider himself an immigrant because he’ll be staying in the USA just for four years to complete his studies and then he’ll come back home; What is more in his personal opinion American has a open- minded on this topic, thanks to the important role that American universityie play inside the society, too, They are sort of “melting pots”, taking in people from all over the world so the help them to integrate themselves in American ordinary life, without making anykind of discrinmination. However, despite this positive situation he added also that the American society tends to treat immigrants in different ways according to their nationality and – above all – to their financial conditions. He said that there are deep differences between people that come from the South of American and those who come from the North,or even people coming from Europe are usually far better accepted than immigrants from Latin America and other poor countries. Artem reminded us that there is a great number of Italian immigrants in the USA and they are treated in a better way than American poor people which are terated are immigrant as well.
Then we tried to explain him our Italian Situation but he was already well- informed about that becouse he studied it during his scholar years.
The discussion was very interesting and useful for me to understand a different point of view, but, during this exchange experience with American people, I notice that there are not so much differnces in the way of think or behave, between America guys and we, as Italin students that live in the North of Italy. I think that this could be a good starting point for our next covesation with Arty.
see you...
