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According to Sergio Saviane: ‘L’italiano (lui, soprattutto, ma anche lei) é così suscettibile (touchy) e presuntuoso (conceited), che non ha nemmeno il tempo di fare autocritica e di vedere i suoi vizi e difetti’. So, given this apparent lack of self-criticism, Saviane decided to take it upon himself to communicate to the Italian nation what he considered those vices and defects to be.
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© 1989 Robert C. Powell and Roberta Tozer
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Powell, R.C., Tozer, R. (1989). L’Italia: Comunicazione E Mass Media. In: Parr, B. (eds) Mastering Italian 2. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19843-6_8
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