Outliers malcolm gladwell sparknotes6/29/2023 While Roseto may seem like an unusual case, this early example raises ideas about how community shapes success that are given more attention later in Outliers. Gladwell argues that a harmonious community outweighs or simply renders irrelevant all of these other factors. This explanation of the extraordinary public health in the town of Roseto follows a series of failed explanations - diet, exercise, genes, and location - for the Rosetans' remarkable condition. The Rosetans were healthy because off where they were from, because of the world they had created for themselves in their little town in the hills. In transplanting the paesani culture of southern Italy to the hills of eastern Pennsylvania, the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world.
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