THE SURVEY. The Cmr laboratory highlights a “cognitive dissonance” between the reality of this region and the collective imagination
The Venetians in the mirror: hard-working, but also selfish and dissatisfied
Marini explores how the North-East views itself and issues a warning: ‘It seems that in this image, it sees only the dark sides and the less positive aspects’
The people of Veneto certainly see themselves as hard-working. But one in four also see themselves as being more interested in money than in culture. They are also never satisfied, and even selfish. Only one in ten people in this region believe that we are, above all, ‘autonomist’ in character. And far fewer still cite altruism and solidarity as a defining characteristic. Or even – and this is no less surprising, in what was once referred to as the ‘sacristy of Italy’ – being religious. In short: the people of Veneto and the north-east ‘look in the mirror and the image reflected back is not unambiguous, with more shadows than light’. This is how the Vicenza-based sociologist Daniele Marini summarises the findings on this aspect of the survey, which he oversaw as director of CMR-Community Media Research, in collaboration with Intesa Sanpaolo-Cassa di Risparmio Veneto.
