Closed, cold, grumpy, but also tenacious, prudent, gifted… every great city and Italian region has its own, and these are the first negative and positive stereotypes that you hear about the Genoese. “Some are Sampdorians”, someone jokes. But above all they are said to be stingy (the famous “little short arm”), and at the same time, they are said to be generous… but the negative stereotype is often more famous! And that’s all the proof we’d need of the fallibility of the stereotype itself, being able, over time, to affirm everything and the opposite of everything…
Utopias
None of the utopian experiments around the world completely succeeded in a way that could have been exported. But even if the ideal community is vainly pursued by centuries, doesn’t mean that one day utopia can come true, changing its meaning on the dictionary…