Immigrant’s escape from cultural comparisons (part 2)

Immigrant’s escape from cultural comparisons (part 2)

I wish that in my first week as a newcomer I had understood why I had this compulsive need for comparing almost everything – socially, culturally, geographically, economically, politically, etc. – between Canada, my new country, and Italy, my native one! I...
The immigrant’s comparison game. (Part 1)

The immigrant’s comparison game. (Part 1)

I woke up on this typically cold Canadian November morning with the impulse to write something about my life of a few years ago. I wanted to share something that I used to do and that, because of the changes that I have gone through, I don’t do anymore. Some of you...
The obsessiv need to follow other immigrants´advices.

The obsessiv need to follow other immigrants´advices.

I guess there is nothing wrong with following the advice of others when we don’t know what to do. Since we were little kids, we have all been told, directly or indirectly, that this is normal, some of us more than others. I remember my Mother’s advice to me at the...