Being better is subjective. The quality of life might be better, but if it's really all that great why are people from these countries on here constantly whining about how liberal they are or how the government sucks and how minorities are taking over. I haven't seen a positive thread about Sweden posted here yet, they're all negative. I'm still waiting for just one positive thread about the country, just one that isn't about immigrants. Is that too much to ask? heh. On the contrary the people from the "bad countries" don't seem to be complaining about their countries nearly as much.
On the appeal of people wanting to claim Italian history, people seek to claim such history because Italy like France and also Britain, Greece has one of the richest histories/cultures in Europe in the same way that China does in East Asia or the Levant in the ME. It's not about being first that is appealing, it's that these regions are the beginning of the west and western culture. What would our literature look like today without contributions from Greece and their invention of practically every modern genre. What would classical music be without Italian contribution with Opera, Orchestra, Piano, Violin, contributions to musical notation, Vivaldi's contributions to concerto which later went on to influnece both Beethoven and Mozart directly. Western culture would be unrecognizable if you were to remove either of these groups from history. That is the appeal.
I was serious about the part on Sweden, someone really needs to post a positive thread about Sweden for once. It's long overdo.
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