Italian stereotypes

Nov 11, 201312 min read

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PetiteBubu

Published: Nov 11, 2013

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Hello people!

Since ~~a lot of random visitors have been scared by my previous post~~ sometimes it happened to receive comments like "I wonder how cool it would be if I was italian" or "Too cool! You came from the nation of Renaissance, Of course you like to draw" or the worst comment ever "What language is this? SPANISH?", I googled out what common people think about us. This is what I discovered...

ITALIAN STEREOTYPES

:bademoticon: Italians love pasta and they eat it everyday. Spaghetti and pasta in general are sacred.

Well, this is true, we love pasta, bread and so on. Especially if you come from a traditional family, where eating is also considered a social moment and some recipes are kept alive by grandmothers. In effect if there's a celebration of any kind _{Yes, even if it's a simply Sunday} my father wants to eat spaghetti. With tomato sauce. And hot pepper.

But please, don't think we worship pasta as Italy form Hetalia do ~~It's such an annoying thing!~~

:bademoticon: Italians have amazing coffee culture, exemplified by Starbucks.

Before reading this question, I didn't even know Starbucks exist. Yes, we love coffee but don't think they are as you see in american movies: to drink coffee in a mug in Italy is a crime! Wherever you go, a bar, a restaurant, your friend's house, you will always see coffee in a tiny coffee mug. And most of the time is drunk as it is with sugar. Of course you can put milk or cream, but true coffee is always espresso.

Did I mention this is a social thing too?

:bademoticon: Italians are very fashionable.

When I read this phrase I was stunned. Really? We are fashionable? WHERE?

Well, I don't know what's the common person you find in your country, but I suppose in the rest of the world, if you really want to support such a stereotype, people look like a ganguro, lol. Here people mostly wear what the see in shops or magazines. Unless you don't care, like me, and you go outside with a simple sweater and jeans.

:bademoticon: Italian people often say: “mamma mia!” “va fan culo!” and “thatsa spicy meataball!”

It's vaffanculo, please. Yes, we do say this a lot.

Mamma mia isn't so used. I mean, sometimes we say it, but mostly when we are children. After puberty swearing is more common _{Such as oddio, santo cielo, troia, puttana, frocio plus some blasphemy better not to write XD}

While the last one is never said. And for never I mean never. I didn't even know it exists.

:bademoticon: All Italian girls look smoking hot

Oh well, nope, of course. There are beautiful girls as many as normal or ugly girls. Like the rest of the world afterall XD

:bademoticon: Italian is just like French, Spanish or ancient Latin.

~~I won't hide this is one of the common stereotype that I hate the most XD~~ Of course it is not, otherwise they would all be called in the same way. There are some similiarities, and I think Spanish is closer to Italian than French (in effect I can understand it even if I 've never studied that language). On the contrary ancient Latin is different for grammar and syntax but not for the words _{which make Latin very difficult to learn}.

:bademoticon: All italians are related with Mafia.

Fortunately we don't, but for what is make known, Mafia is deeply related with political affairs and corrupt public procurements. In the other hand common people can be involved in the bad circle of extortion and have to live together with this trouble, especially if you live in the southern Italy.

I don't go further in explications because it would be too hard. For now, accept this answer.

:bademoticon: Italians are very romantic.

Really? Are we? I don't know what happens in the other countries, but for sure I met many romantic people as many as guys who wanted to have fun and stop or never get married.

:bademoticon: Italians speak a lot by gestures

I've never got this sentence. Maybe because it's true, I don't know. Of course we use gestures but I think we don't overdo.

Surely I've never seen an italian doing the 6th hand pose of the chart below. Peraphs because it's something regional. In effect some gestures change a bit the meaning if you move from north to south.

:bademoticon: Italians are loud

I can't make a comparison with other countries, but in effect we are. Especially if you're having a journey with your classmates XD

:bademoticon: Italians are always late

I'm one of those, but I know many many people who aren't, so...

:bademoticon: Italians live for football

This is so true, ahah! A lot of families enjoy football matches _{even if mine is exonerate} and there might be troubles if your best friend likes a different team from yours.

For football we have special channels, a big merachandising, players to worship... The bad thing? We practically only love this sport and it is common in big matches to have racism episodes.

:bademoticon: Italians are subdued to the Pope

To reply to such a sentence I should start a neverending lesson about Italy and its history, because since it has been created in 1861 there has always been the problem of a free Church in a free State, but this is not the case and we ar not at school so let's make a generalization: agnostics and atheists think Pope commands too much while catholics think nobody cares of his sentences.

So, this is it, I think I included everything. If you have any curiosity, tell me! I am a dummy!

By the way, before to say goodbye, leave me give you this wonderful youtube video. You will laugh for sure _{I laughed a lot, and I'm the poor italian one}!

Okay, that's all people. Goodbye!

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Letrune

Nov 28, 2013

"Italian is just like French, Spanish or ancient Latin."
On one thing it can be true: they took Latin and used it a LOT until it became part of the so-called new-latin languages. But they are not Latin nor alike each other. Vocabulary perhaps at a few times, but no closer than English and French (both has saxon vocabulary embedded)... Or, like, Finnish and Hungarian (finnugoric languages, minimal common ground).
On others, I guess nothing else fits at all, except maybe that 1000 years of using latin sure gave a few dozen words.

Am I right? :3

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