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Although she was born in Italy, she is half Italian and half American and she has become a "multicultural person" who can speak five languages. She has lived and worked in the US, Brazil, Australia, France and the UK so she considers herself a citizen of the world. When she is not teaching or translating, she likes cooking Italian food, hiking and traveling around the world...She has traveled to 80 countries and counting!

Italy Genoa
Patrizia Margherita

2026.05.29
Blog Liguria - Children and sports, an important aspect of childhood
Italy has recently been the host of the Olympics and Paralympics games and sports play a fundamental role in the lives of Italian people, both in an active and passive way.
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Italy Genoa
Patrizia Margherita

2026.04.28
Blog Liguria - Birthday fun or birthday stress?
I have studied that the custom of celebrating the anniversary of one's birth had been present in many civilizations for centuries but disappeared for religious reasons after the advent of Christianity to only reappear in more recent times, spreading first among noble people and then among the rest of the population.
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Italy Genoa
Patrizia Margherita

2026.04.10
Blog Liguria - Permanent Jobs, permanent stability?
‘And you, Checco, what do you want to be when you grow up?’
‘I want to have a permanent job.’
This phrase, borrowed from a very famous Italian comedy film, perfectly encapsulates the concept associated with the cliché of ‘permanent employment,’ which is so deeply rooted in the Italian mentality.
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Italy Genoa
Patrizia Margherita

2026.03.26
Blog Liguria - Independent heating versus central heating in Italy
Every winter season people in Italy debate over it is better to have an “old-style” central heating system or a more modern independent heating system.
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Italy Genoa
Patrizia Margherita

2026.03.12
Blog Liguria - Theater: one for all!
When it comes to speaking about going to the theater - the real kind, not the movie theater - many adults in Italy say “It's not for me!”
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Italy Genoa
Patrizia Margherita

2026.02.19
Blog Liguria - The Land of Vouchers
In recent years in Italy, we have witnessed various economic policies revolving around the concept of vouchers. However, debate remains open about these measures, particularly their simultaneously criticized and lauded effects on the economic system and its growth.
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Italy Genoa
Patrizia Margherita

2026.02.13
A Parade, twigs and a good omen
The Confuoco event (literally ‘with fire’) was supposed to be a good omen, and so it was indeed.
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