Tia Taylor's video: The American Way: Accountability Entitlement Cancel Culture UNPACKED WITH TIA TAYLOR EP 5

I have to admit that this episode of unpacked is different because it’s not actually an episode about some aspect of Italy but instead is about an aspect of the US that I became way more aware of from living here. I always found it interesting that there’s no word for accountability in Italian. The verb, to hold someone accountable doesn’t really exist and the closest translation that you’ll find for accountable is responsibilità or responsibility. But there’s a subtle difference between being responsible and being accountable. You take responsibility but hold someone accountable. Responsibility refers to the duty a person or persons have to do something, but accountability points to the owning of the consequences after the fact. Interesting right? An impression that I’ve had while living in Italy is that accountability doesn’t exist, nothing is ever anyone’s fault and at most, it’s the fault of someone else. Controversial right? The idea for this video stemmed from a concept, that of accountability, and my perceived lack of it in Italy. This initial hunch led me on a fruitless search as to why Italians **weren’t** used to being accountable or holding others accountable which apparently no one else seemed to notice because there was no mention or study of it anywhere. Unlike my other essays which were pretty easy to research and for which I found a wide array of sources for, this wasn’t the case for this topic and it caused me to start turning my argument around and around to explain for the gap. Initial question, why is nothing ever anyone’s fault in Italy? Next question, why does something always have to be someone’s fault in America? Another question why do I, an American, feel the need or think I even have the authority to hold people and entities in my life accountable when apparently, it seems Italians don’t? Even if I feel like I have this power to hold people accountable, do I really? It waasn’t until I switched the angle that I started to find a lot of leads and the one that stuck the most led me to a theory I had never explicitly heard of C O N N E C T W I T H M E + twitter: https://twitter.com/misstiataylor_ + instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misstiataylor_ + facebook.com: https://www.facebook.com/misstiataylor M U S I C T E C H + Cameras: Panasonic GH5, Canon G7X, Iphone XS + Lens: Kit Lens and 50mm + Lights: Neewer Ringlight 18" + Editing: FinalCut Pro X