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Hello, I am a College student from the US and need some help from someone who currently lives in Italy. I am working on an interview and need to complete the following questions:

1) How many years have you lived in your home country, and what are the major changes that have taken place over that time? 2) How well educated are the people in your native land? 3) How do you compare the American culture with your contry, and how are Americans percieved? 4) How stable is your economy, including your home currency? 5) How are women viewed/treated in your native land? 6) What is your native languate, and at what age are children taught a second language? 7) What is the status of unemployment and inflation in your economy? 8) Are there many large American companies located in your native country? 9) Are the customs and cultural behavior of the past still followed? How has it changed? 10) Are American products readily available to the general population?

I know it is a lot to ask for someone to assist, but if you could help me out, I sure would appreciate it! Cheryl Kilgo

Contents 1 Merge material from Italian exports 2 Needs update 3 Industrial Triangle 4 Italian Industrial Districts

[edit] Merge material from Italian exports

This article should include material from Italian exports. Paul August ☎ 19:44, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Needs update

This article has a lot of old material. I'm trying to put in the most important things, but can anyone with specific competence look through the article? --Orzetto 16:20, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree, but I'm afraid I don't have enough expertise to do it. --A.rod, 22:32, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Industrial Triangle

Hi I am doing a High School project and I can't work out what Italy's industrial triangle is. I know it is between Milan Turin and Genoa, but I don't know what it is! Please does somebody know and could they explain it to me? Thank you

It's some of a image. There's NO physical site where youc and find it: it is simply a way of saying the most importanta industrial areas of Italy were (and still mostly are) atround the cities of Milan, Turin and Genoa and their metropolitan areas. Nowadays Genoa is quite in a crisis, though,m and Turin in modest sghape if compared with the past: Milan, indeed Lombvardy, holds quite weel, and new industrial areas made up by small family firms have sprung up in Emilia-Romagna, Veneto and Marche (the so-called Northeast).

[edit] Italian Industrial Districts

The article have to be revised because nobody wrote something about the peculiar experience of the Italian Industrial Districts, they are the spine of Italian Economy and are quite different from the districts in the others great economy in the world. In Italy there are few great industrial companies but they are replaced by the districts, where lots of little and middle companies are grouped in few territoris and are specialized around a single and peculiar production (for example Vicenza is specialized around the gold industry and jewellery; Biella around the wool texile; Parma around the food industry). They are recognized by Italian Law and are 200 circa, they are very flexible and have the support of the local governements, schools and banks. You can find in the web lot of sources [1]

The industrial triangle is an old term indicating the north-west zone of the earliest industrialization of Italy, who started around the last decades of the XIX century; Milan, Turin and Genoa were the tops of the triangle. Now industrialization is spread in the North-East and Central Italy, and there are also many sposts in the South.

Please can somebody erase the term "Sick Man of Europe"? It is evocative but also very offensive. Italy recently suffered five years of recession but now is recovering, as many parameters can prove. Every country in is history suffered a period of recession, it is usual, but it is not necessary to give them offensive terms.