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To: Alighieri who wrote (611288)	5/14/2011 3:44:10 PM
From: Taro	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576825

All of that doesn't change the fact, that in Mario Draghi Italy has - again - brought forward a person of internationally acclaimed skills. And yes, Trump or Obama, the former no doubt would have entered the oval office a lot better prepared and with better trained and proven skills than your hero. That in no way means that I'd believe Trump would be the right man for that spot. Getting the drift? As for my political orientation, while I ad most likely positioned way to the right of your political stance, that in no way places me at the extreme right. While most Americans, who only speak one language, believe that proficiency in several of those indicates an elevated intelligence, I know well that this is not necessarily the case. I have met several people fluent in 4-5, who besides that did not show any signs of being above average in any other departments. Personally I was just very lucky to get pushed into an international environment at an early age. That said, I also paid a price for that, which you may even being able to identify with: In several ways I also lost my roots. Talking about internationally good fits and productive multi cultural mixes, the case of one of my close Italian business friends is kind of interesting: At age 40, in addition to his job of being a VP of Sales for a US company in the EMEA territory, he was suddenly handed out the responsibility for fixing the mess they had in Japan. My friend, while remaining a resident of Milano (Italy) added Japan to his monthly itinerary and surprised his company - and even more so himself - by fixing their problems and finding out how easy it could be for a European, for an Italian all time resident of Milano, to get that job done in such a remote and strange place as Japan, totally different mentality and everything. Being quite familiar with Japanese tradition and mentality I wasn't surprised at all, however. Pietro is a well mannered and skilled executive and with a cultural background with roots 1,000 years back or more, one only has to build on a solid initial mutual respect to go places with the Japanese. See, being Italian not necessarily means being handicapped anywhere including overseas, right? /Taro