15 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN ITALY: My parents share their experience 

😂😂😂 you got the idea 😀

@@piazzasquare how are you o I hopo you areo fineo Justo kiddingo

@@h3402 I am good thank you, how are you?

Hi Lesu 😊 Your summary is correct even though very simplified 😊 for sure, when we generalize, we make mistakes and the reality is a bit different 🤗🇮🇹

Yes but Veneto and Ligury are more like the south in mmthese things.

So South sounds like a much better representation of Italian culture. I would rather visit there

@The Sunday U 100% right! :)

no, no one is against modernization, the question is that since the unification of Italy there have been a series of countless events that have meant that southern Italy was unable to keep up with the economy of the north, the church itself allow has nothing to do with it.indeed if we want to put it all the political parties of the "right", therefore the "conservatives" are voted more in the north than in the south

Hi Angelos 😊 great! We wish you best luck 😁🇮🇹

Παμε μαζί χαχαχα 😂

As a Greek myself I think Greeks are more like southern Italians

@@andreasp3452 the southern Italians ARE Greek by blood. Magna Greecia!! 🇬🇷

Hi Anna Marie :) Thank you so much for the comment! Hopefully you will be able to travel to Italy soon :)

Wow, me too. What part are you from? Atlanta ? (I'm just joking btw) 😅

@@davyboy9397 Heh, I get it :)

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Yeah, yeah... 😁😁😁 Olives/grapes/oranges/figs/shrimp/anchovies/tomato/arugula/basil/oregano/olive oil/artichoke VS. pasta/cheese/beef/meatballs/sausages, etc. We Germans and British love our MEAT! 😁😁😁😁😁😁 🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩 And potatoes, carrots, etc. of course. 😁😁😁😁

@@ignaciomondragon99 all wrong, pretty lady. The “Germanics” destroyed the old Rome and brought the “dark ages” on to Europe. “North European” wealth is historically a very new thing, only about 5-600 years. Everything of value comes from the south! PS-I love your lovely Greek name! Στεφάνια! Means “crown” in Greek language.😉😉

@@ignaciomondragon99 look, I love you Italians, but do you think the “Greek south” is over-exaggerated? Many also believe it is UNDER-exaggerated! The greatest cities of southern Italy (Naples, Syracuse etc.) were founded by ancient Greeks. These areas were HEAVILY colonized by Greeks from various parts of Greece. There was even a point in history where many historians believe that Magna Grecia actually had a higher population of Greeks than mainland Greece itself! No, no one discounts northern and italic influence in the south, but there is also much southern influence in the north as well (genetically speaking). Believe it or not, the majority of Sicily and southern Italy spoke Greek as the main language and were Greek Orthodox as recently as the 1300s! This is because the eastern Roman Greek speaking empire ruled those areas for a very long time after Rome fell. The “Latinization” of these areas are historically speaking, very recent (7-800 years about). Check out many southern Italians and Sicilians dna tests on RU-vid, most commonly they are majority of Greek DNA. Anyway, I’m not here to argue about Greeks vs Italians, both are European and great! And no, maybe the Greeks had cheese baked on bread before the Italians, but you guys added the tomato sauce! 😂😂

@@ignaciomondragon99 The Italian peninsula was the center of the Roman world, as such, many came and went. Of course, there is even “Nordic” influence as far south as Sicily, as evidenced by the “looks” some Sicilians have. Italy is a blend of peoples. Nothing wrong with that. Greece as well. Both are two sides of the same Greco-Roman world and the two pillars is western civilization. My Greek surname is an Italian derived one being my ancestors were from Crete, which is an island that the Venetians controlled for 500 years. It comes from the word “Vero”, meaning truth. Many Greeks have Italian derived names. We also share the same blood. For fun, I took one of those DNA tests. It came back as 17% NORTHERN Italian. The rest was Greek/south Italian. The south Italians have Ancient Greek DNA, so similar to ours that the company groups Greek and south Italian into one category. Regular Italian is its own group and includes northern Italy. Very interesting stuff. Take care Bella!

@@obabas80 well the coasts of Southern Italy were inhabited by Greeks while the rest of Southern Italy was Italic

Hi Sharis 😀 thank you so much for your comment 😁 I wish you will make it 😍

I'm in love with Soutern Italy... Bari to be specific. Sicily does have an irresistible charm though, I must admit.

Are Southern Italians agressive people who fight a lot?

Hey Rebecca 😀 thank you so much for your comment 👍👍 I'm sure by living in Italy you are also experiencing some of the points in the video 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

Wow! You should definitely visit it 👌

piazzasquare yes. Ive been looking. I want visit my grand parents home towns and see if there are any relatives. I was thinking about asking at the church or local government. Any ideas?

@@JerryPenna I come from Calabria, I suggest you to visit Tropea, Capo Vaticano and nearby areas

calavria is a part of magna Grecia and have greek roots there you are Greeks and many people expecially the old people speak greek their mother language

@@sophiapapadopoyloy1050 by the way my daughter is also Sophia and wise! Thanks for the explanation.

Hi Jose! Great comment, thank you! 👍🇮🇹

@Renè Libero la Mayoría de la población de argentina deciende de Españoles Buenos aires , santa fe de italianos

The North sounds more Germanic than American

Hi Teodor 🤗🤗 You should definitely go to Southern Italy! Sicily is amazing 😀

Thank you so much dear James! Highly appreciated 👍👍🇮🇹

Im an albanian 20 yo born in italy,my father come to italy in 1991 when the dictature end, he lived in Lecce (south italy) from 1991 to 1997,then whit my mom moved to Vicenza which is north and he always said to me he felt more difference in people behaviour and just lifestyle in north and south italy then south italy and Albania Hahahaha

@@hitto8863 Pershendetje 😁

Hell no wtf

Yes! Exactly 😊 thank you for the comment 🇮🇹

Mine is called a gudazz. I’m from the north.

We have the same concept in Greece and with the same name and I find it very intresting

Yes in Spanish cumpari is compadre

@@nenaj1 interesting, because English speakers in the US use "compadre" to mean something like "friend" or "brother" in a kind of joking way.

Yes, in Mexico we call them “compadre”

In Brazil we say "Compadre" também.

Compadre e comadre.

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Because South Italy was the Great Greece

Also I love Greece

Modern Italians are a mixture of Roman + Germanic tribes (Lombards, Ostrogoths, Herulos and Normans). In minority (especially in southern Italy it is a mixture of Romans, Germans and Greeks

@@georgebaccett9951 In the North are a mix of Germans and French, in the South are a mix of Greeks, Turkeys, Romans, Spaniards and Romans

Ahaha fair!!

True! Napoli is amazing 😍🇮🇹

Hi Gabri Ele, thank you so much for your comment! You are right, Milan it's really frenetic 😀 However, also other cities in the north, such as Turin or Venice, are pretty much in that direction 😀 There are for sure towns (mainly smaller ones) in the north where this generalization does not apply... That's a bit the risk of every generalization, it can't be 100% accurate!

The normal thing is to eat the salad with the "secondo piatto" .

Happy you had positive experiences in the north 😀 for sure you can find very nice people all over 😀

I hope that you're right. Moving to Italy next month to study there

@@IoT_ where are you going?

@@radiantsvn Brescia

@@IoT_ and where do you come from?

I think greece is modern and liberal and promotes independence.

I live in Campania whose capital is Napoli, well close to my Little city there is a town called Atena Lucana. The bond of southern Italy with Greece is really strong

Hi Arturo!!! Sicily is amazing 😍🇮🇹

Ahahaa forse è vero ma anche a Milano non si scherza

@@piazzasquare si se hai 90 anni

Tu hai problemi

A casa durante l’autunno e l’inverno si mangia alle 18:00 / 18:15, durante la primavera e l’estate si mangia alle 19:30; ma tutte le sere ci si trova con la gente del paese e si sta fuori fino a notte fonda. Almeno per quanto riguarda la zona di Canossa (ai piedi dell’Appennino Reggiano confinante con la Garfagnana). Ovviamente non vale per tutti. 😉

devi andare nei paesi montanari per trovarli

It is beautiful 😍

What does your color have to do with visiting italy!?

Please come! There are now many black people.

@@bassel1074 probabibelmente salvini ahahah

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Southern Italy has nothing to do with Africa my dear

@@radiantsvn from 500 years North African people they lived to the south of italy also south of Italy it was islamic Colony

@@alialbarkoly8521 wrong, the moors ruled only Sicily, never the mainland of Italy, and for a lil more than 100 years.

@@alialbarkoly8521 you mean North Africa was a colony of Italy lol

@@radiantsvn I mean Sicily it was colony of moorosc

in Sicily it is a mixture of Romans, Normans and Greeks but especially Arabs

Are blonds common in Italy

@@marcomarco3785 South italians are mixed with albanians also (Illyrian tribes that derived from south italy and Arbereshe that moved there over 500 years ago

@@pena1197 i m from Sicily

@@AsianTheDomination According to a report from the BBC in London, a modern Italian is the sum of: Romans (these do not exceed 38%) + Germanic people, among them: Lombards, Ostrogoths, Heruli, Swabians and Normans, all accentuated and established in what is now Italy and on a smaller scale: Celts and Greeks. Separately, there is Sicily that belonged to Carthage (today Tunisia and part of Turkey) invaded by the Romans and when it dissipated it was taken by the Arabs although it was short-lived due to Ostrogothic pressures (Germanics) and in the end the Normans (Germanics) prevailed over said territory. From the above it is evident that a modern Italian is the mixture of Western Europe

Hi Alexis, thank you so much for your comment! Appreciated 👍👍🇮🇹

Hi Joao 😀 thank you for your comment! That is not true. For sure, many will have friends from their childhood. However, they'll be very friendly and open also to new friends outside their circle 😀😀

Very difficult question ahah so many cities in Southern Italy are beautiful! My favorite region is Sicily 😍🇮🇹

cosenza is beautiful!

@@florner are you from beautiful country Italy ❤️

@@arunraj1012 Catania, Palermo, Taormina, Salerno ecc.

@@michelealbanese3261 grazie ❤️❤️

Hi Max, thank you for your feedback. The video is a general overview of the differences between North and South based on experience. We can go more in detail for sure, but then we need a way longer video 😊 in the channel we also talk about other aspects, if you are interested in going deeper. Have a great day 🇮🇹

But we both know that there are great people (and not so great people) in all countries. Its just that: 1.) You're gonna get a lot more confused or unsure expressions if you try to be esp. friendly/outgoing north of the Alps, esp. in certain locales of Germany, Sweden, Poland, etc. That doesn't mean that Germanics (and Slavs) are more unfriendly on the whole comp. to Mediterraneans, it just means that it often takes a while for the average Nordic person to open up to you... Pewdiepie excluded, that guy is quite friendly, yes. 😁😁😁😁 2.) Since Northern Italy is more Germanic than Southern Italy, thats where/why you get some of those differences... 3.) Germans in particular DETEST criticism, I have found, esp. criticism directed at German culture and stereotypes. And ESPECIALLY, anything having to do with the four letter N word... For obvious reasons. They will not tolerate it (criticism of German/Germanic traits, etc.), not one little bit. Again, since Northern Italians are much more like Germans, you'll get a bit more of a "scrutinizing" sort of look if you lay into the comparative unfriendliness of N. Italians compared to S. Italians... Not just because of the putdown. You'll get a degree of frostiness and social reserve, as opposed to the generally more fiery, emotional, temperamental south... Of course S. Italians will likely not want to take things too seriously, and may find these different national and regional qualities more humorous than most. 😁😁😁😁👌👌👌👌👌 Its a different sort of deal obviously if you are talking to a generally more pleasant, understanding, mature, and patient German, etc. person, someone who knows you better as well, and the nature of the conversation/subject matters revolve more around things that are not so much qualities found more commonly in Germans, but in the person themselves, etc. As for everyone else, I dunno man, that would take too long to explain in this comment at least...

Are you German, btw?

@@piazzasquare Hey man! I really enjoy learning about people and cultures. I clicked on the video because I was really really really hoping to get some insight. In any case, my criticism reflects only the content of the video and nothing else. Thank you for your effort though.

The same happens in Germany, where the south of country is richer than north

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Thank you so much Salvatore 😊🇮🇹

If you want any help with Italian learning you can check out our lessons on the channel 😀 and yes.. Americans are at another level 😅

Opus 32 I beg to differ. But still northern Italy is pretty big and quite a few differences exist. If you take Milan as an example, that’s a really fast paced city, I’d put it around NY levels. That’s not necessarily a good thing though

I am from Milan and I've been to New York City twice and to tell you the truth I haven,'t seen so many differences about their hectic lifestyle

North-west*

@@DaGhibelline nord est

Latins/Romans, Etruscans, Ostrogoths, etc. Italianos. 😁😁😁😁🥗🥗🥗🥗🥗🍝🍝🍝🍝🍝🍝🍝🍝🍝🍝🥩🥩🥩🥩🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖🍾🍾🍷🍷🍷

She is from Città di Castello in provincia di Perugia ☺️

Ciao Caroline :) Grazie del feedback! Abbiamo moltissimi video in italiano in questa playlist: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ce2Ef6GP9Jc.html

In Poland we also called a godparent "kum"! Now it's just "rodzice chrzestni" which literally means "godparents"

Well, southern Italians have Greek roots and northern Italians have Germanic roots?... In practice, this means that before Foreign Folks came, Italy was a largely deserted landscape, with a few scattered people with no culture of their own.... Really?

Nah, people are just different due the environment adaptation, genetics of the Italians is pretty much the same since pre roman era

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@Renè Libero si, però cambia da persona a persona...

Bell'idea! Lo farei volentieri 😊 magari lo prendo come impegno da fare ai 50'000 iscritti 😁😁

@@piazzasquare tante grazie. Sono Ricardo Di Benedetto Sono argentino e il mio bisnonno era nato a Teggiano, Salerno.

@@ricardodibenedetto704 piacere di conoscerti 😊🇮🇹

@@piazzasquare sei molto lontano dei 50000 iscritti

@@ricardodibenedetto704 possiamo farcela!!!

Ahahahah grande suocera !!!

Parli senza cognizione di causa. Ci sono stati attuali pensionati, ed io non sono tra questi, che per sopravvivere si sono adattati a mille mestieri anche spaccar pietre con immani sacrifici e per paghe da quarto mondo, cosa che oggi giustamente nessuno è più disposto a subire.

Ciao amico 😁 we hope you enjoy our videos 😎🇮🇹

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Ciao 😀 Sure, you can find in the channel many videos spoken in Italian! Check out here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wNVe74ckHn8.html

All of them together

Just because he is Italian doesn’t mean he is from the fucking mafia. Fuck sake

@CrappySUD thank you 🙏

@@piazzasquare I think most folks realize that the Italian mafia, while it still very much exists, esp. in Italy, are very much NOT on the radar these days, at least in the USA. In America, its mainly Hollywood-Pesci, Pacino, De Niro, Scorcese, Sorvino, Liotta, Gandolfini, and all the rest. The (Gambini?) crime family, and most if not all the others, you just don't hear much about them these days... There's no action. I've gotta wait around like everyone else for my food, like a shnook. 😁😁😁😁😁😁 ...The Russian mafia on the other hand... 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Alle sei è un po' estremo.. anche se ne conosco molti 😂😂

Se hai 92 anni e sei in una casa di riposo.

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Sicily is christian

@@masterjunky863 Italy occupited understand

@@HANMABAKI63 what? Sicily hasn't been occupied for hundreds of years.