holidays each year are a great opportunity not only to enjoy a little 'sun, sea and relaxation, but also to read those books in a hurry of everyday life usually escape us. Since that day I picked up, with great pleasure that I had a book on the shelves for a while 'time: the title American Journal author is a professor of History 's economic University of Milan , Giulio Sapelli . In New York with a prestigious scholarship to gather material for a book about the American upper classes, Sapelli has made a valuable notebook that combines reflections on literature in economics and anecdotes about ordinary people encountered on the streets and clubs of the Big Apple. Here I wish to use a song that shows an example of the ability to be open towards each other, that we both like and that is a hallmark of the best part of the United States. I leave you to read, with the advice to buy this wonderful little book:
"There is something fantastic in these places where people come just after five o'clock in the evening after work, looking first cautious and careful and then transformed by the smile on the ground and more so expensive than you can imagine: from a distance see your lover, or friend, the friend, the group of comrades with whom you get it immediately, spends most of these short breaks between the daily effort on the one hand, and domestic life and family obligations on the other. These restaurants, in general are declining more and more. There are only two in all of New York really the height of their fame, and a few others are decidedly inferior product quality and originality and friendliness of the furniture. [...] So, in the late morning or at noon, I like to come to this hallowed American soul and enjoy the scene of affectionate few customers who, in those hours of solitary, enter and order and as I immerse themselves in reading, or in a chat with the girls and the elderly waiters at the bar, or in games of skill such as puzzles or in any electronic devilry that follow them with pride and show that the waiters, with which they are in great confidence. In these places, I must finally reveal it, you eat the most delicious hamburgers in North America and the world, with a delicious care in cooking the meat and vegetables in the composition of the giant sandwich that is collected and crushed. You drink all beer but in general. You drink the beer made by small - so to speak, we are in the country of the great corporation - companies, craft brewers, which is very good and well enhances the food being offered. [...] Do not come here to show off, you are not to have sex with who you meet chance, do not come here because coming here is a status symbol to come here is to manifest a peculiar way of being American, which cut across all political affiliations and social, of every kind. People come here because we love the old America with his spirit of the pioneer manufacturer and constructive, simple and direct, animated by a degree of social acceptance and to all, "your" and different, which is an amalgam of identities and openness and respect and recognition of which is very rare to find in other parts of the world. It is a "being American" were typical of the Northern Great Lakes, and from which remains alien who is identified with the values South America and the restatement of its terrible legacy of racism that still, in fact, is renewed, while in other forms. You eat a burger and a beer is much more than a ritual to celebrate together culinary and social. It is a liturgy of American metropolitan life that only a minority renewed with a serene calm, with a quiet self-assertion, but that does not make you feel ever the outsider, but there is never lonely. Even if you are a foreigner. And this is the real strength of the United States, whom we love. "
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