Uses and customs are basic for a society and they represent the uniqueness. Language, music, art and books contain the essence of peoples and their peculiarities, creating the distinctions. In an increasingly "globalized" and integrated world, knowledge of other cultures is an advantage as well as an enrichment, facilitating the establishment of bonds and spreading a feeling of mutual tolerance. Canadian multiethnicity does not show a cultural flattening, but instead a sharing of different artistic realities that keep alive their traditions. On the other hand, the uniqueness of Italian culture, considered as art but also as cuisine, is the emblem of a knowledge that has always attracted the whole world.
Canada was discovered by an Italian. Giovanni Caboto (among the native English speakers is known as John Cabot) is the name of the Italian navigator and explorer who on 24 June 1497, in the conviction of having finally reached "the Indies", landed at Bonavista, on the island of Newfoundland, ...
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When from Canada, 40 years ago, the Red Brigades began to lose “If it works, it is old”. Marshall McLuhan Giuliano Compagno* I am stating the obvious when I say that Marshall McLuhan was honoured all over the world. After all, his activity ...
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Coming to the 42nd edition, the Toronto Film Festival will take place from September 7 to 17, 2017. It is born within a wide programming of the audiovisual world and aims to give more and more creative and cultural stimuli. The event will take place, as is the case since 2010, at Bell Lightbox, a complex ...
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