Strangers When We Meet ..written by a Belgian living in Germany... here it is

"Italy is like that girl who has more talent than anyone else, like the one who eats the others alive, because she was born beautiful, more beautiful than all the rest, and crushes them. Italy is like the most ingenious one, who has the hands of a fairy, who invents a thousand things, because she is full of resources. She knows how to discuss history, the sea, mountains, she knows about food, good wine, dialects, painters, sculptors, writers, and excellence in science; there’s nothing she doesn’t know. And when this beautiful, talented girl stumbles and falls, the audience of the unfortunate cheers. It's the anger of the jealous poor souls, those in the dark, because she remains beautiful even when she falls to the ground. But Italy is a girl with 12 cm stiletto heels, of course made in Italy, that no one can pull off better than her... Just give her time to get back on her feet."