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Yep, only if you really believe that Italy's "birthday" is 1861... :) I humbly suggest that there's something more than that if you look closely!

What people often refers to "Bolognese sauce" should be called "ragú" (tomato and minced meat).

Yep we enjoy our pasta, a bit sad that we're always caged into this "pasta, pizza, mafia" storytelling :/ but probably it's our fault!

[English is not my primary language, so I'm probably wrong]

Shouldn't the title of this thread include a verb, like scraping/collecting?

I was just saying that above, it's an ownership tax. A lot more people are paying it as it's now embedded on the electricity bill, so it's useless to recommend to pay it as it's now been basically enforced. I believe you should comment in english if you wish to be understood.

That's an ownership tax on tv's as there's an ownership tax on cars. The fact that the proceedings of the Tv ownership tax pay for the public (national) tv service is just a side factor. As very few people were actually paying it, the Tv ownership tax has been embedded on the electricity bill. _Italians, good people_

Cit. " In general, the procedure works best for other European languages like French, Portuguese and Spanish. "

[I am easily wrong but] may the highest "similarities" be due to the neolatin root of some european languages ?