When an Italian hears the word "American," the picture they get in their head depends on their generation. Old people will picture a fresh-faced, swaggering-but-overall-likeable, energetic person with a dauntless entrepreneurial spirit who goes around talking in slang and ordering milk at all hours. Young people will picture a college student in a more or less advanced stage of inebriation.
When an American hears the word "Italian," the picture they get in their head is actually a person from Naples.
When an Italian hears the word "American," the picture they get in their head depends on their generation. Old people will picture a fresh-faced, swaggering-but-overall-likeable, energetic person with a dauntless entrepreneurial spirit who goes around talking in slang and ordering milk at all hours. Young people will picture a college student in a more or less advanced stage of inebriation.
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