The Italian Exodus
Roughly 90,000 people leave Italy every year – almost a million in the last decade, from a country of 60 million. Silvio Berlusconi's departure won't stem the tide, for it is rooted in the ambiguous legacy of Italian unification in the nineteenth century.
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PALO ALTO – Antonio is an Italian friend who works in information technology. In his thirties, he already had a job that, in Italy, normally would go only to a person of at least forty-five. Tired of trying to prove to his clients that he deserved his position, he grew a beard and dyed it gray. In the United States, by contrast, the late Steve Jobs co-founded Apple when he was just 21.