Salvador de Bahia - Marzo 2007, autobus Aeroporto, Salvador de Bahia: la signora anziana vestita di nero che parla portoghese stentato con forte accento abbruzzese sembra uscire da un film del dopoguerra italiano.
Ma la ultra settantenne con viso raggrinzito e simpático che parla con la figlia, bella signora brasiliana di mezza età, è lo specchio di questo Brasile moderno.
Per una strana combinazione l'aeroporto internazionale Luiz Eduardo Magalhães di Salvador è vicino a "Little Abruzzi" dove vive una delle maggiori comunità abruzzesi outside Italy.
February 2007, Ilhéus (south of Bahia), area fields. A farmer with a face full of wrinkles speaks with a strong Neapolitan accent on the difficulties of cultivation of the fields this year. The son, a cute mulatto responds with a Neapolitan accent, "C'avimma ago Daddy?" arm and takes the beautiful blonde in the hinterland of Bahia.
In these two images shows the difference between emigration to Brazil and that in other countries. Italians emigrated to Brazil, as the nice seventy, are now in Brazil, live with confidence the relationship with the motherland, which has forgotten them quickly labeling them as "poor immigrants".
Children of immigrants Italians in Brazil are part of the local community. I am 100% Brazilian, not Italian.
The recent controversy flared up in Italy on the Italians in Brazil and the need to close the rhetoric of emigration was triggered by another seventy, a famous columnist for the Corriere.
And the irony of this is that the summary of the controversy is to quickly forget the folk figure of the emigrant twentieth century, started with the classic cardboard suitcase.
This is because Brazil has changed, is different, is a unitary country.
And this is true, there is no country in the world more integrated in Brazil.
the mixture of races of languages, religions, especially that we see here in Bahia, there is no country in the world.
All right? Forget the emigrants?
Well no, because there are still many, are very much alive, are Italian and are forgotten by the 'Italy.
Did you know that many long-time immigrants are in a situation of complete destitution?
Did you know that those Italians who have suffered all we can, are aged in a foreign land and forgotten by their families and their homeland, they are still many, especially in Bahia?
Did you know that very few of them are registered with AIRE, which for the 'Italy still live in the Old Continent, if they still have the record in the country of origin?
But then what is the reason for the deep disaffection with the motherland "heart and soul"?
Two steps to the House of 'Italy, the last bastion of Italian Salvador de Bahia, gives a picture of the dropout situation prevailing in the Italian community.
The Italian presence in Bahia, institutional and commercial, it leaves much to be desired.
The honorary consulate, "hosted" by the House of 'Italy is still the bastion of the doubt indissoluble honorary consul Pisanu. Asked about his financial management at the Court of Auditors in Rome are still left unanswered.
Offices Commercial Embassy of Brasilia, apprised of activities of Italian investment in Bahia, is not responding. It seems to be back in time, when the Italian government was responding to hard-nosed or ignored the requests submitted.
Fortunately there is a happy exception in order and polite behavior of the Consul in Rio de Janeiro Massimo Bellelli, which always responds to questions from the press time.
Why then should a woman over seventy Abruzzo believe in his own country, when still a certified public pillory is compelled to row in the hot weather in El Salvador out of the House of 'Italy?
And the other Italian institutions, political parties who are trying to expand its presence abroad to grow the presence of Parliament?
Attempts to establish a subsidiary of DS in Salvador have been struck down by the dictates of the political secretary of Brazil Andrea Lanzi. Here in Brazil it seems that the wave of reform of the Left parties did not cross the Atlantic and the concept of internal democracy does not exist.
Worse still are the Italian right-wing parties, which practically do not exist in Bahia.
And the ACLI, the charitable institutions, other institutions? With the exception of the ILO in Salvador do not exist, nor you plan to create them.
But because the community spagnola o portoghese a Bahia, come in altre parti del Brasile, è così forte, compatta, autoprotettrice, mentre quella italiana è disgregata nel Nordest brasiliano?
Perchè si tratta di una comunità che è partita povera, e lo è rimasta anche qui in Brasile. Mentre gli spagnoli o portoghesi dominano qualunque attività economica bahiana, gli italiani non sono importanti, con alcune notevoli eccezioni come l'ospedale São Rafael.
Gli italiani sono sperduti, diffidenti, addirittura hanno paura di registrarsi all'AIRE, (i giovani emigrati perchè temono di perdere i benefici fiscali in patria).
E allora qual'è la verità sulla "retorica dell'emigrazione Italian in Brazil?
the truth probably lies somewhere in between.
It 's true that the younger generation is Brazilian and not even speak Italian (and sometimes even want to).
E', however, also true that over seventy Arzilli Bahia Italians are alive and well and have the same right to respect and consideration from our beloved homeland of seventy there, some of them distinguished commentators on the Corriere della Sera.
(published April 2, 2007)
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