Italy Travel: Propoganda Taints Tourist Biz
Both Milan and Venice would love a profitable spring tourism season, but we have to wonder if having racist campaign posters plastered around the north of the country is the wisest way to drum up international appeal.
May we regretfully introduce the Lega Nord, a relatively new side show act in the already fascinating Italian political circus. Since 1991, the Lega party has been spewing bold political propaganda and outwardly racist opinions towards what they believe to be criminal immigrants, freeloading Southern Italians and gay exhibitionists.
In the north of Italy this week you may still see the Northern League's campaign manifestos lingering after Monday's national election. As expected, the winner was Silvio Berlusconi, an ally of the LN.
As for the posters themselves, the Native American cautiously warns that Italians could end up just like him, on a reservation, if they allow more immigrants to make a home in Italy. The one with the fat egg-snatching woman says, "Wake up Northern Italians! With Lega Nord, Against Roman Thieves." Something tells us these fellas didn't play well with the other kids in preschool.
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