How True are THESE Stereotypes According to Italians?
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We asked Northern and Southern Italians on the streets of Florence about the most accurate stereotypes. Do they think Italians are bad drivers? Are they warm and expressive? Are Italian men "conquerors"? Is food really such a big deal in Italy? And which Italian stereotypes are not true?
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0:00 Intro
0:27 Truest Italian stereotype?
3:14 Rules around food?
3:30 Are Italian men "conquerors"?
4:55 Biggest difference between North and South?
6:23 Do Italians dress up to go to the store?
7:07 Are Italians more romantic and expressive?
7:45 What is a non-true stereotype about Italians?
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For all the foreigners: when you meet an Italian, please AVOID those sad jokes about Pizza with Pineapple or speaking with gestures. Instead, please visit Italia and fall in love with the eternal beauty of this unique country. You are very welcome! (And yes, Italian man are Romanic, Mamma mia).
My Italian dating story: I was visiting Milan and was having a coffee in a bar. I was chatting with a man and told him I was very interested in the architecture of Milan. He said he was an architect and offered to take me on a little tour. After the tour I asked if we could have another coffee. He said to me, we're going to a hotel together now!! I politely declined.😅😅
@Trip4man
22 күн бұрын
Sex is soooooo rare! Why you declined??? That was like some woman offering me a gold nugget... Omg! How could I say no??? Yes! Of course I want a gold nugget! Make meeeee rich yeah
@francisdrake7060
22 күн бұрын
So? Your individual experience means nothing.
@erikcotterli-heather9231
21 күн бұрын
That sounds like a pappagallo
@giusepperoselli4810
20 күн бұрын
You don’t know what you lost.
@petram.972
20 күн бұрын
@@giusepperoselli4810 was it you? 😅😅
Just one thing. Italy is divided in 3 (north, central, south). Latium (Rome), Abruzzo, Tuscany (Florence), Marche, Umbria and Molise is Central Italy
@paulemerick8661
6 күн бұрын
I agree though there are plenty of times where I hear that Molise and Abruzzo are considered South Italy (maybe going back to the Kingdom of Two Sicilies). I guess I am indifferent since I get the argument that Molise and Abruzzo are considered geographically central but culturally somewhat Southern Italian. IDK. Just had to point that out even though I do agree with you in general.
@emanueletardino8545
5 күн бұрын
@@paulemerick8661 you are right, Also about language.
I could go on and listen to them explaining Italy stereotypes all day. So funny. That curly hair girl is awesome.
best people with best energy
I am from South Tyrol. At Xmas, we are 6 people at the table 😂
@elisabettazuppardi1469
22 күн бұрын
Siete Italiani o no?
@salmarcano4057
22 күн бұрын
Hi Austrian
@lannalisa2925
22 күн бұрын
Very german 😂😂😂
@AbraXas-bi9ux
22 күн бұрын
@@elisabettazuppardi1469 such a difficult question cannot be answered with a simple binary answer. but I dont expect anyone to understand that, if you dont come from here.
@AbraXas-bi9ux
22 күн бұрын
@@salmarcano4057 nothing bad with that
0:42 well the US roads are waaaaaay more dangerous than the Italian ones. I's not an opinion, it's a matter of fact. In Italy the number of death related to a car crash is constantly lowering, in the US is the opposite. Also the number per 100k people is higher in the US
Awesome video
+datingbeyondborders *Actually, Firenze, Toscana, ITA.*
Italians are a collection of ethnicities with historical different languages and cultures, the idea of "Italians" comes a lot from a distorted and parodistic idea of the poor Southerners who emigrated in the USA, creating a fantasy (and really embarrassing) image of Italy and Italians tha Murricans spread all over the world partially ruining our reputation.
I remember some nuns in Salerno telling me that, as an American, I was more “meredionale” (sp.?) than my British companions. I suppose that was a compliment, ma chi sa? Probably wouldn’t have been in Rome.
@Iknos997
22 күн бұрын
Meridionale (southern), they meant you are warmer, friendlier and nicer. We love when foreigners behave like that and embrace our philosophy of life
@Iknos997
22 күн бұрын
Meridionale (southern), they meant you are warmer, friendlier and nicer. We love when foreigners behave like that and embrace our philosophy of life
I love alllll Italian .
Im from Sicily. Italy is clearly divided. North Italy people: european, individualist, cold South: traditional, family oriented, friendly, warm All the sterotypes that you hear about Italy are from South Italy. Italians they hate each other but we really like foreigners.
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I’m from the US and dated a girl from the Netherlands. She told me that Italian men were very pushy and sometimes relentless and overbearing. I don’t know but maybe it was because she was incredibly beautiful or if she was exaggerating the stereotype. I can’t judge
Dove sarebbe il Nord? Vedo solo gente del Centro-Sud Italia
tutti senza patente? ma dove, nel terzo mondo
Thanks for this nice video! I miss so much my city 🥲( 26 year old italian guy, expat from Florence, living in Utrecht for almost three years)
I love slow food.
If you ever deal with the loud obnoxious decendents of Southern Italians in NYC and long Island , you know . I have also dealt with the old school male attitudes and real mafia from various areas . Northern Italians are more calm and creative . Both sides like their culturally styled homes and plantings. Those in-between are just that but may be placed between as a mediator between the two . Crazy greeks in the south and more ethnic mixing and interactions with conflict , more than the north near Austria.
@elisabettazuppardi1469
22 күн бұрын
Your obnoxious Americans with Southern ancestors have nothing to do with real South Italians who are very generous and nice people
@helgaioannidis9365
20 күн бұрын
Having lived in both Italy and Greece I'd say that the Greek influence on southern Italy sure is palpable, but when it comes to the relationship between the sexes I see great differences between southern Italy and Greece.
@emanueletardino8545
19 күн бұрын
I nord italiani sono più chiusi e più freddi, e infatti etnicamente e culturalmente sono germanici (franchi se andiamo verso Piemonte e Val d'Aosta), eccezione fatta per romagnoli e liguri, mentre i friulani sono slavi (sloveni) e sono belle persone. Purtroppo al nord i giovani tendono ad essere più viziati e "smidollati", ad assecondare i trend e a temere i prepotenti. In centro e sud Italia c'è molto più rispetto e serietà con gli estranei, ma anche serenità e calore, accoglienza. In centro Italia etnicamente si è più vicini al concetto di "razza" italiana discendente dai popoli italici. Al sud c'è una differenza etnica estrema, specie nelle isole (Sardegna e Sicilia). Background fenicio, egizio, illirico (arbëreshë), arabo (MENA), greco, armeno, saraceno... un vero melting pot genetico.
@paulemerick8661
5 күн бұрын
@@emanueletardino8545 Definitely agree with the generalization. My mom's family was from Puglia. She did a dna test and she found out she had a mix of native Etruscan-Italic (especially with a high genetic affinity match from Tuscany), along with some North African and Middle Eastern ancestry. It was interesting.
0:36 It's absolutely not true, the Mafia doesn't represent Italy as they say it abroad... 0:45 we don't drive without a license and helmets, don't generalize, some behaviors in Naples don't represent the ENTIRE south, come on. Unfortunately we are self-influenced by the stereotypes that we believe to be true when however they are not. 1:13 Not only every region but almost every town/city has its own accent and local language. 5:54 I think this is reductive, not exclusively influenced only by these cultures but many others in these millennia which makes ours unique. 6:29 It depends on which area of Italy not everyone but often we think about the image and therefore we like to appear stylish and we pay attention to the details.
@emanueletardino8545
19 күн бұрын
0:36 no? 😂😂😂
@spaniardsrmoors6817
13 күн бұрын
Truth, and Italians promote their own stereotypes rather than point out their #1 history achievements, dozens of world renown brands, economic wealth. They accept all of them but go ballistic about their food like pineapple on pizza nonsense.
@spaniardsrmoors6817
13 күн бұрын
@@emanueletardino8545 Yes keep pushing the stereotype, Italian. Japan had a mafia 300 years before Italy, and dozens of countries have them.
@paulemerick8661
6 күн бұрын
Well all I can say being an Italian-American with Southern Italian/meridionale ancestry is that I do get the mafia stereotypes including from one Northern Italian expatriate who was from Padua. It's very annoying to say the least but I get used to it over time. Gets tiring though.
@spaniardsrmoors6817
5 күн бұрын
@@paulemerick8661 So ask them their ancestry,,, if they're Irish, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, so many more point out their mafia's. Germans- Nazzi, UK-KKK, Hispanic/cartel etc etc.
Italian : hands and pasta are the things that came up to my mind 😂
@nicolettastrada5976
19 күн бұрын
Cavoli
@spaniardsrmoors6817
13 күн бұрын
yeah not that their history achievements are #1, dozens of world renown brands, top 10 economy, military, wealthiest citizens in the world, eh?
@masterjunky863
12 күн бұрын
So funny and original
I don't know much about Italians. I only know one Sicilian girl. I didn't have good experiences with her since she wasn't keeping her promises, always being late or changing the appointments, always saying sorry for what she did, and behaving as if I was her best friend by hugging me so tightly and behaving too warm. Of course, all Italians can not be like her but I just wanted to express my experience.
@michelleg7
23 күн бұрын
Unfortunately, the late thing is a common in latin cultures especially Spain, Latin America and Italy. The hugging nope that is pretty genuine thing they do especially when they know you. It's hard for you to understand that some cultures if you don't know much about their culture. If she was changing appointments then I would have talked with her about that.
@diofromyozgat
23 күн бұрын
tbh i would love to have a friend like her(except not keeping promises and changing the appointments). Btw are you from Turkey? There are many Turkish people like that too, except the saying "sorry" part sadly. I dont think average European behave warmer than average Turk.
@Xerekaengolidoradequiabo3000
22 күн бұрын
@@michelleg7very common here in Brazil, not sure about Portugal
@beste3975
22 күн бұрын
@@diofromyozgat Yes I'm from Turkey. I criticize the behaviors of Turkish in terms of that too.
@ForeverNihil
21 күн бұрын
I think she was just rude. If someone likes to spend time with you I dont think should behave like this.Im Sicilian and Turkish culture are very similar.
So similar to Greece 🇬🇷🏛🇮🇹😎
@spaniardsrmoors6817
13 күн бұрын
Why do you feel the need to say thisBS?
@salmarcano4057
13 күн бұрын
@@spaniardsrmoors6817 cause it's reality
@spaniardsrmoors6817
13 күн бұрын
@@salmarcano4057 cause it ain't
@salmarcano4057
13 күн бұрын
@@spaniardsrmoors6817 🤦♂️🤦♂️
@spaniardsrmoors6817
13 күн бұрын
@@salmarcano4057 Why Greeks always claiming "Italianisms" Trying to be Italian? Jealousy/envy. Do you know how many other nationalities claim to be "just like Italians"
The Arabness of Southern Italy is so telling.
@Xerekaengolidoradequiabo3000
22 күн бұрын
Ive seen some similaitiries between here in Brazil and some Arab countries too
@francescotellini1389
22 күн бұрын
Some interviewed people are certainly 2nd generation emigrants.
@Goldenskies__
21 күн бұрын
*Levantiness. Did you miss the blond sicilian with sunglasses? We are mixture of ethnicities and all those ethnicities can also be found in Arabs from the Levant. From Phoenicians to Greek, To Arabs to Amazigh. We are a European version of them. If you look at DNA results online from Southern Italy and Sicily and then you compare them to Levantine results you will see pretty much the same ethnicities but with different percentages. Levantines tend to have a higher percentage of Arab of course, while we us Southern Italians and Sicilians tend to be more Greek/Italian etc. you should watch a few ancestry DNA results from those 2 areas, I've been watching a lot and noticed people from the Levant share the same ethnicities but with different percentages. The Mediterranean is made of the same people but in different percentage hahah
@gabrielemangialavori8732
21 күн бұрын
Not so much, except Sicily, but not all of the south and not only with the Arabs but many cultures over the millennia
@emanueletardino8545
19 күн бұрын
@@francescotellini1389stava parlando della ragazza siciliana e di quella originaria del sud. Non del ragazzino marocchino o della ragazza indiana.
Why not watch a video about New Zealand? Because it ranks fourth after Finland in the list of gender equality
ITALIANS BAD BCUZ YT OR NOT YT
@Goldenskies__
21 күн бұрын
Uh?
@spaniardsrmoors6817
13 күн бұрын
@@Goldenskies__ He's on a lot of Italian videos preaching theBS 'cause Italians "racist"
@spaniardsrmoors6817
13 күн бұрын
Go to the Middle East and shout your homosexuality over there and see what happens.
@masterjunky863
12 күн бұрын
Italians can go from Nordic to Arab, northern Italians can look like the rapper Nitro
@paulemerick8661
6 күн бұрын
Italians are diverse. I have Southern Italian ancestry on my mom's side and her breakdown is a mixture of native Italic-Etruscan, Arab, and North African. Your comment though doesn't seem coherent for me to fully understand.
da quando in qual l'italia è divisa tra nord e sud e il lazio è al nord????...e poi sarebbe al limite il centro italia...
Ecco appunto: in gran parte stereotipi estremamente fastidiosi, a mio avviso.
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Oh yeah Italians are definitely white. I don’t know why there’s even a debate about that ahahaahh
@ddrid854
21 күн бұрын
I am italian and i don't care about being considered as white or black but as italian
@Giovis968
20 күн бұрын
@@ddrid854bravo sono italiano , i don't care about the opinion that comes from beyond the alps. 🇮🇹🇮🇹
@spaniardsrmoors6817
13 күн бұрын
3 were not Italian, the rest that were &are white. Unlike you...now tell us your ethnicity for a good laugh about your "whiteness."
@spaniardsrmoors6817
13 күн бұрын
t f you looking at then...the 2 darker were NOT 100% Italian but Indian and Moroccan mix. That's why the flags shown ig'nant. Now tell your ethnicity
@spaniardsrmoors6817
13 күн бұрын
@@Giovis968 Don't assume he's from the north, I've dealt with southern Europeans who troll that lie but too cowardly to reveal true id's or North Americans who are usually mixed with black, native american DNA and think they're "white."
They can't live without tomatoes.🤭