In the Napes train station, there’s a signboard advertising money-transfer services. It’s a four-sided rotating deal, with each panel offering transfers to a different country: Albania, Morocco, Poland, and Senegal – and showing what I guess is a typical immigrant from each. Somehow, I don’t think this kind of thing would fly in the US, though the depictions aren’t caricatureish or offensive in any obvious way. In fact, they all look fairly accurate, though the Pole could be made more stereotypically Polish if they wanted to. She’s actually the only non-”ethnic” one. She’s also the most skilled, a nurse or surgical assistant in scrubs. The others do dirtier toil.

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