Is Kdrama VINCENZO offensive to actual Italians? (mafia, italian food, hand gestures etc.) 

Im loving all the assumptions already in the comments lol vid hasnt even gone public yet. Hold yo beers and chill fam

I'm italian don't worry it's not offensive it makes us laugh. As long as ther's no pineapple on pizza it's ok.

No and the only people actually offended by it are not Italians, lol.

I'm Italian and I'm not offended at all and I find the show hilarious. And in all truth, I'm obsessed with it. Is there a bit of stereotyping? Yes, but it's not overdone, it's somewhat really well "balanced". In other words, it could have been way worse, and most of the stereotypes in the show are celebrated and not ridiculed or hated on.

A lesson: Never EVER bring an Italian to an Italian restaurant outside their country.

meanwhile Italians have assembled in this section to declaim that its not offensive loving this

Actually I'm quite offended. Quite offended this series is ending in the next two weeks :'(

Italian living in Korea 😀 I'm actually Sicilian where the mafia is from. Vincenzo is not offensive at all to me, it does push a stereotype but I find it incredibly funny and I'm following it every week. I don't think Italians get easily offended by things like this :) I showed the clips where he speaks Italian to my parents as well and they found it so hilarious. As for the Mafia part, it's a painful part of our history, but it exists, the only thing that changed is that nowadays the Mafia are the big conglomerates and politicians, so I think that drama did a fair job at portraying it :)

I've never seen so many Italians in a comment section before😂

As an Italian, I just found the references and behaviors hilarious and entertaining. In fact I was so pleased to have impersonation of Italian culture portrayed in a Kdrama. Not offensive at all, so refreshingly funny. Kudos to the director and the cast. I would invite the whole cast to Italy, you are WELCOME!!! Let's avoid the politically correct deranged talk please!

​I'm Italian, I'm following this show religiously and no I didn't find it offensive, yes it is stereotypical sometimes but not in an offensive way

Everyone: italian must be offended Me, an italian: OH SHIT HE'S SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE THIS IS SO COOL

"The problem isn't that they try to make Italian food, it's that they call it Italian". I laughed so hard at this 😭💀

The pole dance is from South-Italy... it is an old traditional dance, so probably young people never saw or heard about it. I come from Sicily, and I remember when I was in primary school a few of my friends had to learn it for the carnival fest. When I saw it on the drama, I was surprised... they did a goog job researching this!

I studied italian and as a foreigner who speaks the language I wish people would be more understanding, to get the accent right is something not many can do. The actor did an excellent job,honestly.

I'm from Italy and I understand mafia it's a serious matter but let's be honest this is just a show it's not meant to educate or inform. Kdramas are low key not meant to be realistic either. So I watch it laughing at the attempt of being stereotypically an italian criminal. Moreover let's not be hypocritical about the fact that we also have very romanticized series about mafia or other criminal organizations......

us italians rarely find something offensive when people talk abt our culture... we usually just laugh about it bc we know that we know better and maybe sometimes we're like "BRO they could've done their research a bit better tho". We usually think some things can be annoying like forcing stereotypes and stuff but don't necessarily find that "offensive".

haha I think us Italians would just find it quite funny seeing a Korean man swear and act Italian, the only way to offend us is to add extra sauces to ur food

I'm Italian and this is the first kdrama that I watch with my entire family. Every weekend when it airs we sit in the living room and watch it. My parents used to not want to watch Korean shows with me cause they hate subtitles but they like this one so much, they actually stopped minding the subs and they also are picking up on the korean language 😅 I have to say this drama is definitely one of the best ones rn. We take no offense, Song Joong-ki speaks Italian well and the stereotypes are not done in an offensive manner but is pure comedy even in Italian shows they use some of those jokes etc. so I don't mind.

Ok I’m speaking as the granddaughter of someone who was killed by a mafioso. They also ruined his business and left my grandmother penniless because he wouldn’t pay them or let them corrupt his produce company. That being said, it doesn’t bother me. When K-pop stars play Mafia it doesn’t bother me. Itzy’s new concept doesn’t bother me. Because its not cultural appropriation. It’s cultural ignorance. What’s the difference? A bunch of American, wealthy white privileged people who became wealthy because their ancestors got rich from the labor of enslaved people are engaging in appropriation. When they wear blackface or put on Native American clothing for Halloween. They are taking from cultures that their ancestors destroyed and making them playthings. That’s appropriation. Turning the pain their people caused into a joke. People in South Korea did not subjugate the people of Sicily. It’s not indifference. It’s ignorance, and it’s not being done with malice. So it’s not the same. The show is extremely entertaining and if anyone reading this is offended on my behalf, you can stop. It’s OK. Really. And everyone else uses mafia for entertainment so why can’t SK? It would be pretty lame to start getting upset now...

The thing with the restaurant...they didn’t try to make it look like an authentic Italian restaurant...the chief is a Korean guy that wants to seem like he lived in Italia, so he uses the most stereotypical things related to Italia to decorate his restaurant lmao

Actually, I'm not offended at all, the serie is hilarious!! Vincenzo: cog***ne, ma che ca**o fai?? Dry cleaner: Si Giuro che ho perso tre polmoni!!!!

I'm italian and I'm not offended at all!!!!!! He really did an amazing job for someone who never learned the language before and also I love how he exaggerate the words and the gestures because I find it hilarious

No it's not offensive, its fun and entertaining. As an italian I love it, so please lets not be Woke and lets use our brains, this drama its perfectly ok, they are impersonating features of italian culture, and they do it pretty accurately so please, please don't give me the politically correct woke hypersensitive gen z discourse. I beg you

I think we should distinguish between Italian descendants living in other countries and real Italians. I am Italian living in Italy and born here, and I think that too often Italy is thought to be just food, mafia, fashion, old music. These are stereotypes, but this drama is not the worse thing ever, the plot it’s not bad, but I think we should be aware that mafia it’s not what the drama shows: mafia it’s a very huge problem in Italy, so many people died and for Italians it’s a open wound. Thank you for making this video, so many people romanticize mafia and they are just uninformed.

I'm a Asian Italian guy ethnically chinese. So i kind do fell empathy for Vincenzo, and doI enjoy the drama. Just is think they really didn't evolve any real italian in the producing fase. There are many imperfection really easy to address. The aim clearly was not create a realistic italian mafia guy, but the best one a korean netizen can enjoy.

The only offensive thing about this drama is the romanticisation of the mafia. Us italians know how dangerous and terrifying it is, but because of many series, books and misinformation in general, people around the world tend to sympathize with mafia members and with this criminal association. But apart from that, i really appreciate the effort to speak italian in "Vincenzo" and i find the series funny and enjoyable.

i havent seen the show but as an italian im intrigued to see how a kdrama could offend italians lol

I'm Italian, and Vincenzo is by far one of the greatest Kdramas I have watched. Honestly, for a Korean, who is probably (im guessing) new to Italian, having to learn a new different language, as well as the lines, as well as being funny, Song joong Ki, is really doing an amazing job!

you know which show I think was offensive ? Emily in Paris I am French by the way, and I am all for second degree but man this was horrible to watch. and if I may add, I have been learning Italian for years and been there a few times, I never felt a hint of cringe watching Vincenzo and Im sure Italians wouldn't mind the show. Also I think the main actor did a terrific job learning these few phrases, it must have been tough for a Korean. Like it's "easier" for French, Spanish or Romanian people to learn another latin language but for someone from Asia, I assume it's another story. I hope i am not offending anyone by saying this since everything we say is scrutinized nowadays.. Sorry i got carried away, I love the show and I actually watched episode 11 tonight hehe

I'm from Barcelona but I lived in Italy for 3 years and I agree with absolutely everything they said in the video. One scene that they didn't mention but I found hilarious is where Vincenzo and Hong Cha-young go for a coffee and she orders ice americano loool Vincenzo said what most italians think, that that is dirty water and not coffee. Brilliant drama

I think that as an Italian and a Sicilian, the really offensive part of the series remains how the Mafia issue is handled in part, and how it is described. The mafia, or rather the mafias, are a too complex and articulated context and which unfortunately for the simplicity of the plot have undergone a very stereotyped treatment, taking the Italian American mafia more as a model of films like "The Godfather", rather than asking for more accurate advice on the real face of this wound still existing today to a sociologist or an investigative journalist for advice. I was a child but I remember very well the explosion, the cloud of smoke, the crazy ambulances and the tears and dismay of all the witnesses of the Capace massacre, while with my mother we passed near the site of the massacre because my school was really near to the place of the explosion. A friend of mine from middle school tells me about the drama of having had to watch live as a child, the explosion of the car bomb and the death of Paolo Borsellino, blood and rubble everywhere, because he lived in the same building as the judge's mother. And I could go on indefinitely. Mafia is NOT COOL...And yes..if Vincenzo was a "consigliere" an important member of south Italy Criminal Organization like, Stidda, Cosa nostra, Andrangheta, Camorra o Sacra Corona Unita, ......a really good portrait of a men like this It would have been much cruder, more violent and more despotic. Let's say that the attitude of the villains of the series and their way of acting is much closer to what we could have expected from a mafia in reality. Having said that it is still a comedy, and a fictional story, in addition the protagonist also wants to avoid getting too noticed so there is no real exposure. Let's say that more than Vincenzo's attitude, and the lightness that transpires from the rest of the cast when they discover that he is a mafioso who turns up his nose. The same agent of the International Police, or of the head of this ... well ... leaves a little perplexed, even if I have found perhaps much more irony in this about how stereotypes work with people's minds and how they alter perceptions of a foreign public on the harsh reality of the facts. For the rest, well, the series is still a very enjoyable product, Song Joong-ki was really very good! And cultural stereotypes make you smile in the end, no Italian really cares, since we play a lot of humor on joking about stereotypes and self-irony. Let's say my vote is a nice 7 (since I prefer to forget the Mafia issue). However, as they pointed out about Vincenzo's position within the mafia clan, being an adopted grandson or in any case an adopted son, well it could be that out of affection and over time by asserting himself he has come to obtain respect from his father / grandfather. What is certain and has been well transposed is the fact that by the other members of the clan and other families he would always have been perceived as a foreigner. The mafia is based on a family / tribal conception and structure, therefore it does not conceive of adoptions or the acquisition of members of other ethnic groups or mixed marriages from an ethnic point of view except for strategic purposes and even them with great rarity.

As an italian I’m not offendend. It’s just a k-drama and you shouldn’t take it SO seriously. They didn’t do a lot of reserches about our food or traditions but Song Joong-ki did a good job. I think the only part that it should have taken more seriously is the “mafia” part. it’s still a serious topic here in Italy... many lives have been taken away from it. (sorry for my broken English but I wanted to share with foreigners my point of view. Of course it’s not every italian point of view. Never generalise)

I am NOT italian but my flatmates in university were from Italy and the biggest lesson i learned from them is you NEVER EVER try to pass italian food made overseas as authentic italian food nor do you ever change an italian recipe 😂 we all love Vicenzo so much

like 50+ years ago stereotypes like all italians are mafia actually negatively affected italian-americans... but i think nowadays it doesn't so shows like vincenzo should just be viewed as like a fun light hearted homage to italy/italians

Indian-Italian here. No it isn't offensive. It plays into some stereotypes but not in any harmful or degrading manner. I like it

I'm not an Italian so I cannot say if I'm offended or not. But I'm loving Vincenzo. It's funny and very nice to watch. I'm having a great time watching it.

Not offended at all but concerned about the romanticised vision of the mafia.

I am Italian and I am still waiting for it to be completed so I could binge-watch. I know italians in MDL (mydramalist) who are watching the show and enjoying it. It's a fun show and I didn't see any bad comments about it from them.

about the girl who said that people make fun of them abroad because they are obsessed with their food, I am like girl you have the right to be obsessed over it. As an Indian, even we are obsessed with our food, so... it's completely normal. And I can get it when you don't get your country's food to your taste in another country and I think that's completely fine cause they will serve that food the way their country's people accept it. If Italians wanna have Italian food and if Indians wanna have Indian food or any other country people wanting to have their food, don't try it in another country, you are just going to be disappointed.

Hi! Thank you for your video. I am really glad you decided to talk about this. As many have expressed in their comments, Italians usually laugh about the stereotypes. We still get offended if some people exceeds the limits, but that is not Vincenzo's case. However, I can't quite get over the topic they decided to portray on screen, which is Mafia. It's not easy to explain to non-Italians what Mafia (and other criminal organizations) do to our society, and I am not the most qualified person to do so. Still, I will try my best. Mafia is a huge problem in Italy, it is the cancer of our society. It is cruel, violent and corrupted. And yet, most foreign movies represents it as if there is something romantic in it. I am thinking about the Godfather, which in a way started the trend of the 'Cool Mafia Guy', but probably the worst results are movies like 365 days. Some people (not everyone) in other countries tend to watch these movies and think 'Wow, Mafia is cool.' And so, the romanticization of Mafia begins. Vincezo, unfortunately, is on this trend. The message in this kdrama is contradictory: Vincenzo is presented as THE exception, the only good, attractive mafia man you can find, the beautiful anti-hero that can be appreciated by the public. I am aware that this is all fictional, but I am afraid that the message transmitted might have sad consequences and it will make Mafia more likeable to foreigners. Moreover, I am afraid it will damage the fight against Mafia as well. Because there are people fighting Mafia and they are risking their lives too. Some of them died, like Falcone and Borsellino and many, many others. Some others have lost part of their freedom and live constantly under police protection. It is thanks to their sacrifices that we are able to enjoy a more hopeful future. Therefore, the romanticizing Mafia is disrespectful to them and to the people near them. As a good youtuber once said, "The romanticized and 'passionate' representation of Mafioso makes it so that their crime is trivialized and minimized, when it is a problem that afflicts our society. The Mafia goes forward thanks to superficiality and ignorance, and it can only be fought with the weapon that is knowledge. The Mafia never interrupted its activities, and those who fight it haven't stopped doing it either." I am sorry if what I wrote is a bit unclear and really, really long, but please, just be aware of the damage these medias can make

As an Italian myself I was actually happy to see Korean and Italian cross over. It’s definitely not offensive 😁

if Vincenzo is deemed offensive to Italians, gosh, what percentage of Hollywood films would need to be removed from circulation? American cinema (and I'll wager cinema in other countries, too) is rife with jokes about the mafia.

So I watch this kdrama together with my dad whose Italian, and he doesn't think it's offensive but he find it hilarious and entertaining. He said that you don't need to take things like this too serious, cuz it's intended to make people laugh and having fun watching it. He really enjoys watching it, he really likes Vincenzo.

I'm Italian and I think Vincenzo is hilarious as a series. I feel a bit offended by Mafia by Itzy though: they kept on repeating the word "mafia" and even used it as a title without having a clue of what it really means...

OMG AHAHAHA DAVID!! I did not expect to be in the video as well 😂😂😂 - the German girl at the end

I think that there's a difference between poking at a bunch of stereotypes for entertainment purposes (we live for this type of comedy in Italy) and using a stereotype to make a mockery of a whole country. I'm sicilian and I'm not offended. Now, if anybody from any other country on this planet (Italy included) came to me with his/her hands rapidly moving, talking about 'mafia, pizza, blablabla', I'd be angry in a "If you don't walk away from me I'm going to crucify you with my heels" way. This is not the case, tho. If Vincenzo stays away from pineapple on pizza nobody in Italy will think this kdrama is insulting -- our priorities are confusing, I know, let it go.

Thanks David! Always love DKDKTV contents!

Now imagine if Italy made a series full of korean sterotypes. Twitter would melt down.

I mean the show is meant to be funny/ridiculous so people can’t really take it’s cultural aspect as serious as the cultural aspect of a more serious/non- comedic shows like Descendants of the Sun or Moorim School though I also see the point of critique because if someone that doesn’t know anything about Italy sees this show they’ll probably think Italians are freaking weird. but then again it’s a comedy and people probably take the things said/done in a comedy series with a grain of salt

Omg I was super curious about this so ty for making this video

Thank you DKDKTV VINCENZO Amazing!!! Thanks again David.

0:12 yes it's french and yes he speaks french too, you can find it in the drama

This was so informative and I really loved hearing opinions from the Italian audience.

OMG I WAS EAGERLY WAITING FOR THIS !!!!

I love this drama: the characters, the silly situations, the plot, the super handsome Vincenzo. I love that Vincenzo makes an effort to speak Italian and uses many sayings. It makes so much sense to insert Italian in the drama. Good or bad, I love his accent, and it makes him sexier; this goes with Jan Jun Woo and his English. Many kdramas have characters that "lived, studied or were raised" in the USA but never said a word in English in the drama as Jan Jun Woo does. Kdramas are my only addiction-hobby-relax time, and I feel so sorry how they get so scrutinized. Other countries do whatever they want with their series and movies, and they never get so scanned as kdramas. Thank you to all the Italians who love the drama and are not overreacting to it as other cultures tend to do. Viva Vincenzo, bravo!!!

I’m Italian... I’m really surprised by this drama! They are really not offensive at all... i was expecting much worse 😆

no this show is the only good thing we have had in awhile!! 🙌🏾

This was interesting. Thank you very much dkdktv.

THE fact that most of the non-italians are offended honestly makes no sense😃 most ACTUAL italians aren't even offended...anyways stream Vincenzo

Hi everyone 😊 I m Italian,after I heard so much about Vincenzo I decided to start to watch it, so far I just saw episode 1, but I didn't find it offensive, end I think I won't even after.. in general Italian have a sense of humour.

I'm Italian and I'm not offended but I have to say that Vincenzo sounds like someone that learned Italian in a week so he can't pass as Italian. It's pretty funny to watch 🤣🤣

Southern Italian here. This Show is absolutely hilarious. The interactions between Vincenzo and Totò fucked me up real bad lol, not to talk about all the other truly amazing characters. But I was really shocked to learn that the main villain isn't even a actor, he is a Kpop idol... that guy gave the BEST stage performance of a psychopatic rich asshole in a long time. Truly a magnificent actor. And hot AF.

holy shit NEVER CLICKED A PREMIERE FASTER LIKE DAMN i'm excited to hear y'alls opinions

I'm waiting for this drama to end before watching so i don't know, i watched some clips and as an italian i found them funny tbh, and watching his curse was hilarious. P.s. i readed the comments, didn't know you had that many italian followers, ciao a tuttiiii

Man if vincenzo is ever adapted to a japanese drama, they should cast hidetoshi nakata, he lived there for 8 years and acquired native level italian. He's 43 years old though.

It’s much more offensive jyp giving itzy the mafia concept like it is an aesthetic.

This was so awesome! to hear people to talk about how they feel instead of just assuming

"The problem isn't that they are trying to make Italian food, it's that they are calling it Italian..." Savage 😂

There is a difference between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. Song Joong Ki in an interview tells about the difficulty trying to speak another language well when the placement of the tongue and vocal folds are used differently than his life long native language, it would be a hard adjustment for anyone. This is a delightful dark Rom com. Not a documentary on Italian life, food, and culture. It just a fun show to watch.

I'm waiting to watch Vincenzo on Netflix , will arrive with Italian subtitle on the 9th of May.... I'll be back after I watched it 😉

Thank you David for the effort of getting us a different perspective about the show! I’m latina so I really don’t get an option here, but I’m super glad the effort behind the scenes of making this drama is overall well received by Italians themselves and by the international community... Song Joon Ki made a marvelous work trying to learn a new language, as well on Space Sweepers when he spoke in Spanish... So I have my hopes up to his next upcoming film Bogotá... If you ever need an opinion form a Latin American, tell me☺️

My mother and I love the drama!❤ We are not Italians, but African U.S. Americans from Chicago, Illinois. I agree with the Italian panel on the Italian food. Here in Chicago, the Italian food is not authentically Italian. When the Italian immigrants arrived in Chicago many years ago, they changed the food because the men worked in stockyards, road infrastructure, construction, railroads, and factories. More meat, bread, potatoes, and cheese was added to their food so that the men can be stronger and work longer, like 14 hours.

they don't really focus much on Italy and mostly everything said was stereotypical mafia movie inspired, but I was amazed by the cg though, Song Joong ki did not even film in Italy

His name is pronounced like Vin-chen-zo. C followed by an e or an i in Italian is pronounced with an English "ch" sound.

I really love The show!! It’s so good! Can’t wait for the next episode!! I enjoyed this reaction.

I speak Arabic and the same thing happened in descendants of the sun and the K2. They brought actors who doesn’t even speak Arabic and say some dub7)3&!;) that might sound Arabic to ppl. They wrote in Arabic from left to right instead of right to left e.g Apple= Elppa. Joongki told kids in his drama to go to the party instead of going inside 😂. I don’t understand why wouldn’t they consult someone who can speak Arabic there are thousands of Koreans who can speak Arab in universities

Can't we just go back to the times where humor still existed and we were free to watch wathever we wanted while actually enjoying it?

good episode - I lived in Italy for a short period and my BFF is Italian/Greek - I share many of your guests thoughts as well. I am loving this series so much. I am also laughing every time someone tries to say his name.

I just started this show and I’m utterly obsessed with it. Practically a full feature film for each episode. 20+ episodes. I’m in heaven.

That was a great clip. I am not Italian but Latina and understand a bit of Italian and felt it was very good. I’m glad to hear actual Italians confirm the accuracy. And also their opinions on Vicenzo. Good job.

First of all THANK YOU so much for asking opinions to Italians. Recently I found a lot of offensive comments from strangers insulting us because of the Itzy's comeback and made me feel so sad and upset. Anyway, about Vincenzo : I watched the drama and I actually liked it, maybe just a few scenes didn't match my personal taste because it was a little bit too " stereotyped " but I guess other Italians were ok with it ( plus in every country people tend to have stereotypes of other nationalities, so I'm not that surprised ). Anyway I agree with the girl at 04:28 , overseas the Mafia is usually associated to the Godfather movie when it's actually pretty different nowadays. If you want to have an actual idea on how the Mafia works in the 21th Century I recommend the " Suburra " & " Gomorra " TV shows ( it's about the Roman & Neapolitan Mafia ) , plus as a Roman I guarantee that Suburra is very accurate. We appreciate the fact that other countries are praising Italy so much ! However, Mafia is a very delicate argument and people should not think that is something to make fun of or " not a deep thing ". I see a lot of Italians thinking that it's ok to have a game called " Mafia " or even accepting aesthetic concepts that romanticize Mafia. Unfortunately if we, as italians, don't educate ourselves in the first place then it would be very difficult to do the same with strangers. I watched a lot of documentaries with my family and unfortunately my parents lived in the 70/80s terrible attacks because of Mafia, that's why they wanted me to understand how dangerous it is. I hope to see people being less disrespectful towards us and stop saying stuff like " You're white, shut up ", " Y'all so sensitive " or " I cooka da pizza ( and no, it's not funny ) . Sorry for my long comment, but hope my opinion was clear enough !

Loved this! This was so funny specially Donaz. They should all get hired next time as consultants 👏🏼 anyways, I loved the drama definitely one of my favorites this year, I’m sad it’s over.

The references are just ignorant and the stereotypes are not as accurate as some "Italians" in the comments say, however I am used to these stereotypes thrown at me every time I meet a non-European person. It's cringy of course, especially whenever people talk so lightly about mafia. Some Italians might feel a certain way whenever mafia is treated like a joke..I personally don't feel offended, I just feel bad for their ignorance that's all. I'm not American, I'm Italian I'm not going to make a huge deal about people perpetrating the ignorant and exaggerated stereotypes about Italian people. Remember this: every individual feels differently, you can't say "all italians feel offended or not". But, overall, when it comes to these sort of things, Italian people are used to it, have a sense of humor and are able to joke about themselves and others. More discussion may be needed on certain topics but it would be hard to find Italians who come at you with pitchforks, cancelling a tv show for this.....the woke ideology won't destroy our critical thinking.

I really enjoyed this video. They are so right about the subs hardly matching the colour of the actual language used sometimes, and Vincenzo's accent isn't abysmal, I can tell he has really tried. I too wish they hired someone from Italy to dp a last check on a few really obvious things.....but they didn't so it is even funnier.

Hi, i'm italian too! I didn't watch the show yet because it will be air in may in italy, but i saw some clips on youtube. I think that this show will be very fun for us italian to watch, the actor did a great job,as far as i know, in talking italian.We are also very used to this kind of stereotipes so it's not a problem at all. The only thing that worries me is the romaticize of mafia, let me clear, the problem is not this drama in particular but all the movies that i've watched regarding mafia don't depicted the true at all. Mafia isn't cool, they kill and brutalise people! I'm from southern Italy so I know very well what I'm saying, maybe you do not see them "at work" but you can definitivly feel them in the society! So, I can't wait to watch this drama, but I think also that we italians need to spread awareness around this topic so the foreign people can really understand that being mafioso is not a very good thing! :)

it's just an american trend to be offended at everything, we italians just laugh our asses off when we see this type of adaptation. And btw i laughed even harder when my friend showed this drama named after me.

Song Jong Ki's Italian keep getting better in every episode. His accent in ep 18 was *chef's kiss*. PD: VINCENZO BEST DRAMA OF 2021

I hope for the next - Season 2 if it happens, an Italian cultural expert will be hired.

i have italian friends and we watched the series together and sometimes i asks them if they were offended by some stereotypes shown in vincenzo and they just laugh and brush it off. they said that it was funny, have a little bit of stereotypes, but not offending, and they actually enjoyed it. they also added that those whom they seem offended by those are not even italian themselves and they just want something to hate on pr argue about.

I'm actually really delighted to hear how much these Italian viewers are over all enjoying the show. I was really curious about how it was landing for for Italian folks. Great video. :) The duck who was talking about using American movie mafia stereotypes was dead on. I kinda want to check out the Italian show she referenced with more accurate depictions of Mafia culture as a comparison now.

I've not watched the drama yet but I'm going to do it for sure. I think that Italians don't get offended so easily: it is not in our nature. We laugh at stereotypes and we enjoy the humor. But what makes me a little sad (sad, not angry) is that we are always remembered for mafia... There are so many good things in Italy.

that circle dance thing actually exists in Greece, it’s called ‘gaitanaki’ and it comes from Venetians who lived in some specific Greek islands and from refugees who came from Asia Minor

I think Europeans in general is not easily offended, I mean, we are quite used to stereotypes in American films and series! As a Norwegian, I am just proud to be mentioned. The Korean drama A Piece of Your Mind, also have some scenes from Norway. The only thing they got right, was the forest. I thought Norway before I new it was supposed to. I was actually laughing when the mother supposedly was dying in a snow storm, because here we call it light snow.... As a former student of history, I will say one think. Cultural appropriation has all always existed, or rather cultural inspiration. It had shaped and inspired cultures all over the world, where people have traveled. But now it is much more visible and travels faster because of television and internet. The Norwegian National clothes have actually patterns inspired from the Middle East, because people traveled and saw things they liked elsewhere. Personally I think we should be more proud of people liking and getting inspired of our culture, than getting offended by getting things wrong. Feeling offended quite often, affects us negatively and doesn’t do us any good in the long run. Of course, I am not talking about things involving racism and thing that are seriously offensive. But I see especially young people getting offended so easily these days, and my message is: Lighten up a bit! Smile and live life a bit more outside the internet. Not everything is so dead serious. Sometimes we just need to laugh instead of getting offended.

Im following this drama and can't wait for the few remaining episodes!

about the hand gestures, i would just like to add that most Spanish and Italian ppl are not self aware enough to know how much we actually do it. I'm pretty sure that studies have been done about it too. It's like a blind spot. Yes we know we do it but to what extent not so much lol. It also varies greatly from one person and region to another, some may not do it at all. I'm Spanish not Italian but this reminded me of the article i read about our two countries and wanted to share the info^^

When the lady said that she went to watch BTS concert , my hearteu.. ahh..

As an Italian interested in anthropology and sociology (and very critical towards the concept of cultural appropriation), I would say that one can never speak for the whole population of their country and/or decide what is offensive or what isn't for the entire nation. Some people find the representation of Mafia in movies and series romanticised and offensive, some are so used to it that do not see anything wrong with it and maybe just get offended for recurring stereotypes. I feel like this representation in general was way less problematic than literally anything Americans do when they represent Italians, mafia etc

I am not italian and I am loving this comment section. I've already loved Italy before but now with Vincenzo I adore it !!! Thank you for this incredibly beautiful and positif comment section! P.S:Tell me how to live without this drama. The ending was so so so so so magical and satisfying and it is the best ending I've ever watched! But...I can't live without The iconic Vincenzo and Hong Cha Young couple 💖 let's all hope for an s2(although it is not very probable)but we never lose hope(I already have the perfect plot for it )

This is the drama I am currently watching and I love it 💜