Whenever anyone says that something or other is 'typically Italian', I want to jump up with impatience, overturn my chair, and run out of the room. Could anything be more barren than the study of 'national psychology', that moldy garbage heap of stereotypes, prejudices, and accepted ideas?


'Swedish Autumn', first publ. 1982

Hans Magnus Enzensberger Quotes

Whenever anyone says that something or other is 'typically Italian', I want to jump up with impatience, overturn my chair, and run out of the room....

Whenever anyone says that something or other is 'typically Italian', I want to jump up with impatience, overturn my chair, and run out of the room....

Whenever anyone says that something or other is 'typically Italian', I want to jump up with impatience, overturn my chair, and run out of the room....

Whenever anyone says that something or other is 'typically Italian', I want to jump up with impatience, overturn my chair, and run out of the room....