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A nice place to visit: Italy as seen by Canadians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2016

Osvaldo Croci  and
Livianna Tossutti
Osvaldo Croci
Affiliation:
Memorial University, St. John's, Canada
Livianna Tossutti*
Affiliation:
Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada
*
∗ Corresponding author. Email: ltossutti@brocku.ca
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Abstract

This article analyses Canadian perceptions of Italy at the governmental and societal levels. It argues that Canadians pay relatively little attention to things Italian and that their images of Italy are somewhat stereotypical. Italian politics do not receive much attention and when they do, domestic political aspects prevail over foreign policy ones. The Canadian press represents Italy as a country with a cultural and artistic past, an economic system that finds it difficult to adjust to globalisation and hence destined to decline, a corrupt political system and last, but not least, a society exhibiting many curious, and even bizarre, streaks.

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stereotypesscandalsMafiatraditionstylecorruptioninterventionist state

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Modern Italy , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , August 2010 , pp. 277 - 291
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Copyright © Association for the study of Modern Italy 

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