Welcome to Italy

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I wanted to write a short MyTake about my country, Italy, the country of the holly pizza, and the 500 variety of pastas.

The country of people dancing and singing and shouting in the crowded streets using lots and lots of hand gestures ...

You know you are in italy when:

it's all about soccer, soccer, and soccer.

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Italian soccer fans have good reason to be passionate: our country’s national team has won the World Cup championship four times and is consistently ranked among the best in the world. In addition, Italian league teams attract some of the top soccer talent in the world .. and help me lord do they look good.

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Men & Household

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Usually an Italian Man besides looking amazing, also loves to cook, clean and they are very Loyal and family oriented. They are highly passionate and love to spoil their women a lot. Most of them are mommas boys, but to us Italian women, that is only a plus !!

Hand gestures

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We Italians like to say that a gesture is more valuable than a thousand words. As we talk, our hands fly in the air making unmistakable signs, our faces twist into funny expressions.
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When people portray Italian stereotypes, they often use this gesture:

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Ma che stai a dì/ma che vuoi? ("What the hell are you saying?")

And yeah, the stereotypes are right. ( I use this one way too much )
For this one, the fingertips of either hand are brought together, upright while the hand is waved up and down.
It can be used to ask "what the hell are you saying?" or "what the heck do you want?"
Italians frequently use it in conversation.
Even when they're on the phone or talking to themselves.
It's often an involuntary gesture -- something we can't help doing, like blinking or producing the world's best "gelato".

Tourists

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Well, you are not a tourist if you haven't done this when you visited Pisa. Did you know that it took 199 years to build the Leaning Tower of Pisa, beginning in August 1173. The construction was stopped twice, the first time for 100 years, the second time in 1284. Both times it was due to wars.

The foundation of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, only 3 meter deep, was built on a dense clay mixture. As it turned out, the clay was not strong enough to hold the tower upright. It began to lean in 1178, once construction on the second floor had begun.

Pasta & Pizza (duh)

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There are more than 600 pasta shapes worldwide, but in Italian pasta names don’t sound particularly appetizing. Spaghetti means strings, vermicelli are small worms, farfalle are butterflies, orechiette small ears, linguine little tongues and ravioli little turnips. And yes, this will shock you but the average person in Italy eats more than 51 pounds of pasta every year. The average person in North America eats about 15-1/2 pounds per year.

The Temperament

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Honestly, try not to mess with an Italian woman ... just trust me on this (my boyfriend has been there, he has done that ... ask him)

Our Patience in driving (there is none)

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The horn is our best friend when someone hesitates at the traffic lights or at a stop sign for a few nanoseconds.

We have a lot of streets that are way too narrow for one-way traffic and they still somehow allow two-way traffic, we don't respect street signs ... we just don't who has time for that (an Italian doesn't)

Si my advice, if you want to visit Italy and rent a car to drive around : JUST DON'T !

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This is what i face everyday when i finish work ....


We are overly superstitious

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Trust me, we can take superstition to the next level. Avoiding walking under a ladder is pretty common, but things can get tricky when someone refuses to carry on driving because a black cat has just crossed their path. To avoid “sfortuna,” or bad luck, one would make a substantial detour ... remember what I said about us and driving ....

We're not into queuing

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For all you patient British folks, Italy is a nightmare. We don’t queue, we just stand close to one another until we see an opportunity to overtake you. But for us, it’s perfectly normal! Arm yourself with a lot of patience, or download a game on your phone and don’t get offended by nudges, we most probably didn’t mean it .

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We use a bidet regularly. But what for?

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This is always so weird for foreigners, the bidet is a lower sink placed next to the toilet in Italian bathrooms. Many foreigners stare in wonderment at this fixture. Well its real purpose is for cleaning your nether regions after using the toilet. While they’re also omnipresent in other European homes, 97 percent of homes in Italy have a bidet. You know, we like to have it lean down there....

Well, overall, we are just crazy, and honestly, people still love us, we don't like to be compared with the New York Italians, we never heard of "Jersey Shore" , I still don't know who they are and what they do ... we don't do that overly annoying fist pump, YES we have the mafia but which country doesn't ? And NO, we don't drive Ferraris, are you crazy? The way we drive it would kill us man...

Hope you enjoyed, if you want to know more about my country, feel free to ask in the comment section.

I would like to know what kind of habits you guys have from your countries ?? I'm so curious and I would love to read each and all of them !!!

With lots of Amore

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