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Dear friends, happy new year! The horrendous 2020 is behind us, we’re past it. 2021 will still be difficult, but the beginning of the end of the nightmare has begun, and we have reasons to be hopeful. It was 2012 and they started then, on a small Italian newspaper called L’Opinione, my interviews that then led to something that you don’t even know, which was called LinkItalia, and then to We the Italians. Ten years of interviews is a long time, and in February we will publish the two hundred and fiftieth. It is numbers regarding our 2020, in addition to a goal of which we are proud and happy, but the interviews. During 2020 we published on we will talk about it next month. our website 6,463 news items (2,499 of these were about Italy, the others about something In the meantime, the seventh book of We Italian in the United States); 199 articles in the Italians is out: the yearbook with the the 12 issues of our Magazine; an yearbook interviews of 2020. In 2020 we interviewed 27 (with 2019 interviews) in print and digital people, friends of We the Italians, who gave formats; 165 videos and 97 audio podcasts. us 23 different points of view on 23 different Our archive of websites about nonprofit topics of the relationship between Italy and organizations, groups, departments, festivals, the United States. You can buy it here: museums, associations, and foundations please, buy the book! For you, as a gift for celebrating something Italian in the United friends and family. Please check a preview States contains 1,498 records. During 2020, here. Thanks. we sent out 1,542,313 newsletters: with 12 months, 9 areas and many of you subscribing We would like to share with you some to more than one, this is the final number. We surpassed 49,000 likes on our Facebook 4 5 page. We have a LinkedIn group with 1,190 to Tuscany. She will soon launch a home and members (we expect you, come join us). fashion textile line created from her private We are also on Twitter (1,151 followers), art collection of Renaissance images. Carol Instagram (2,842 followers) and YouTube is also the author of the historical novel, The (466 subscribers), and we plan to improve Stonecutter’s Aria, based on the true stories our presence on all of these social media. of her marble-carving ancestors from Carrara, During 2020, for obvious reasons, there was Italy. www.mytuscanaria.com. only one in-person event we attended, at RAI Italia at the beginning of the year; but we participated in 7 virtual events between radio, television, podcasts and the internet, all documented in the Events section of our website. In addition, through our fundraising we raised and donated € 53,000 for the fight against coronavirus in Italy, organized the first online Columbus Day with 50 leaders of the Italian American community in 20 different American states, and opened our virtual store with more than 20 gadgets with our logo. It has been a very difficult year for everyone, but once again ... we are just getting started. Once again, I’m very happy to tell you that NICOLINO APPLAUSO our family is growing! We have three new members, very welcome here on We the Italians. The first is Carol Faenzi, and sheThe will second is Nicolino Applauso, and he will represent us in the Hoosier State, Indiana. represent us in the Old Line State, Maryland. Carol owns the lifestyle brand, My Tuscan Aria, Nicolino Applauso, PhD, is and historian which offers small group, luxury excursions of Italian language and literature and is the president and founder of the Applauso Italian Learning Center, LLC and teaches Italian language and culture at Loyola University Maryland and Italian, Spanish and Latin at MorganState University in the United States (where he founded the Italian program in 2018). His research path is multifaceted and includes both the medieval period (Dante CAROL FAENZI and the strands of epistolography and comic and satirical literature in the Italian Middle Ages) and contemporaneity (political satire in music and mass digital media and demographic evolutions in Italy in the 2000s). His recent publications are the books Dante’s Comedyand the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy: Humor and Evil (Lexington JANUARY 2021 www.wetheitalians.com JANUARY 2021 www.wetheitalians.com Press, 2019); Dante satire: Satire in Dante Alighieri’s Comedy and Other Works (with F. Alfie, Lexington Press, 2020); Italy Today: Changes and Challenges in the 21stCentury from WWII to the Coronavirus Pandemic (with M. Mignone†, Peter Lang, 2021). We are now represented in fourteen States out of fifty. The third new member of our family is one of a new kind. He does not represent us in a State: he’s our Ambassador for a specific topic, and this topic is Christopher Columbus. His name is Max Scoli. Max is a Senior at the University of Michigan. He is a third-generation Italian- American who is passionate about his heritage and preserving Italian culture in the MAX SCOLI USA. He hopes to educate individuals about the true story of Christopher Columbus so his legacy can receive fair judgment: he is the the horned helmet dressed as a shaman and owner of the Instagram account called “Stop with the tattooed face. He claimed his name Anti-Italianism”. I’m so glad to have Max on was Jake Angeli, and that was enough for the board, we’ll do very good things together. Italian newspapers to automatically decide that the most famous criminal in the world at I end this editorial with a delicate topic which that moment was an Italian American. There concerns the assault against the American was not even one document, video, audio or Congress in Washington DC happened on internet page in English or any other language January 6. I’m not entering in any political saying that he was Italian American: but they topic, but this thing I’m going to tell, you did not control, they did not check, they did regards Italy and the Italian American not ask. He was a criminal with a family name community. The whole world saw the very ending with a vowel: thus he had to be Italian ugly images of the leader of the criminals who American. Once upon a time that used to be violently broke into the Congress, the guy with how the American newspapers treated Italian 6 7 Americans, well unfortunately now it seems that that’s how the Italian media behave.