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Mr. L:  Mr. Victor Losa
Mr. R:  Mr. Sabatino Roncucci

Mr. R:

You were shocked by the changes?

Mr. L:

No, no.

Mr. R:

No?

Mr. L:

No, because I was in contact, and I read an awful lot, and I have friends who are sending me pamphlets and piece of newspapers, articles.

Mr. R:

You are very much in touch...

Mr. L:

Yes, they send me rolls of magazines. "Progresso". And I read an awful lot here and there. When a person reads a lot of papers, the newspapers, you can't fail to know, more or less, what is happening. But when you don't read the papers, then you are really an ignoramus...

Mr. R:

But, let's say, I know you, perhaps, you couldn't go back to Italy before the Second World War and soon after, but did you suffer at any time from nostalgia?

Mr. L:

Never, never.

Mr. R:

Never?

Mr. L:

No, suffer from nostalgia, I never did.

Mr. R:

You are a remarkable man, Mr. Losa.

Mr. L:

I never got so sentimental that way that you had to go back for... no.

Mr. R:

You are remarkable in the sense that you have managed to become a Canadian, you are a full-fledged Canadian in every sense. I can see that you want to stay here for the rest of your life, I suppose.

Mr. L:

Yes.

Mr. R:

And yet, at the same time, you were able to keep in touch with Italian affairs all the time. Yet, you have not been touched by nostalgia. This is very remarkable.

Mr. L:

Yes, you know, it is a weakness, that. 

Mr. R:

You're talking about nostalgia?

Mr. L:

Yes, yes. It is not that good. You should be stronger than that and refrain from giving away your feelings.

Mr. R:

So, in other words, your formula would be 'sentimental, maybe yes, but not nostalgia'.

Mr. L:

No. That's right.

Mr. R:

Mr. Losa, thank you very much. I would like to ask you a last question. If you were 20 years of age again in Italy - today, would you emigrate again?

Mr. L:

Yes.

Mr. R:

Would you come to Canada again?

Mr. L:

Yes.

Mr. R:

So, you like Canada, then?

Mr. L:

Very much.

Mr. R:

Okay, if you had now, to emigrate from Canada, it's a sort of silly question because of your age, but which second country in the world would you emigrate to?

Mr. L:

I would go to the coast, the Pacific coast, Vancouver, where it's warmer than here.

Mr. R:

All right, thank you very much, but, you know, Vancouver is still Canada, so I can see you love Canada.

Mr. L:

Yes, I love Canada because it's a rich country.

Mr. R:

A rich country. Thank you very much and, Mr. Losa, I hope that our future students of sociology will find our conversation very interesting.

Mr. L:

You're welcome.

Mr. R:

Thank you very much.


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