NEW BEGINNINGS...AGAIN? REFLECTING ON MY LIFE IN ITALY 

Absolutely and thank you 🙏🏾

Thank you Franky 🙏🏾🥺

🙏🏾🥺 thank you and congrats on everything achieved, sounds like you have a great plan ahead of you! Wishing you the best of luck!

Not for now, I think I still have a few good years left in me 😂🙏🏾 and Italy is always here if you ever want to come back. thank youu!

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questo post mi ha fatto sorridere il cuore

Tia sono innamorato di te , che fortuna per Enrico. Bravo per voi 🤗

🥰🥰🥰 sto facendo tutto possibile per assicurare che rimane 🙏🏾 thanks for sticking around!

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Always!

Why thank you Sarah 😍

HahHh well thank you 🤣😂 it’s huda beauty but I forgot the name ugh

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Well thank you joy 🙏🏾🥺

I’m surprised sometimes by the openness some Italians express to each other about different regions. For example, I had a friend from Naples make disparaging remark about another guy behind his back because he was from Salerno, like a provincial town, even though the guy did nothing wrong. I’m not sure though if it was just an Italian “in” joke and not to be taken too seriously, but it seemed kind of prejudiced, like a kind of snobbery. Like he looked down on everything about him. This was among an Italians I met in Paris in a student context.

@@hirsch4155 alas it will be a long time before we realize we are all humans and no one is superior to another

Just for future reference, it’s not comforting when southern Italians compare the prejudice they experience from other Italians (which is even less now that italians collectively have immigrants to scapegoat) to the systematic racism black people in the west have gone through forever. You were discriminated due to your perceived proximity to blackness-now imagine actually being black 🙃 You all are here talking about name calling meanwhile I was literally attacked in the street 👁👄👁 it’s insensitive and doesn’t win you points.

@@misstiataylor_ Sorry I was just going on a tangent about my personal experiences with Italians as a response to his post ( I miss my student days and Italian people/culture) . I didn’t mean to use your channel for learning about or discussing inter-Italian relations, well I did I do it I guess, sorry bout that.

@@misstiataylor_ It’s indeed not cool to make correlations that are not relevant to someone’s particular experience with something so serious, that was being discussed by you. I wasn’t being aware.

Sometimes I miss the convenience but that’s really it, I don’t think life would be easier per say 😬 with all trade offs I think Italy and USA are the same for me with regards to a family

@@misstiataylor_ I understand

È sempre stato così in Italia, te lo dico come uno che è cresciuto come ragazzo nero nell' Italia degli anni 90 (ora non ci vivo più). A quei tempi probabilmente era pure peggio di adesso, io e i miei amici neri ne abbiamo subiti di insulti razzisti e aggressioni razziste negli anni 90 e 00. Probabilmente sei molto giovane ma se tu provi a chiedere a delle persone nere che sono cresciute in Italia negli anni 80, 90, 00 ti diranno del razzismo che c'era in quel periodo.

@@marceltresvant8581 grazie del giovane... ma sono nel mezzo della nostra vita .... mi dispiace immensamente di sentire questo, io ho avuto amicizie di ogni latitudine e sono sempre stato felice di questo ... purtroppo c'è stato un rigurgito razzista pilotato da certa stampa di destra ( ci rubano il lavoro ad esempio) che ha rimbecillito molte persone che altrimenti sarebbero assolutamente normali ... ancora scusa a nome dell'italia tutta !

@@TheDelem Grazie mille sei molto gentile, sono passati molti anni ormai da quando vivevo in Italia, ora vivo in Inghilterra e ho una vita serena, qui il colore della pelle non è così importante come lo è in Italia, la mia vita in Italia appartiene al passato, comunque devo dire che la mia infanzia e la mia adolescenza in Italia mi sono servite per forgiare il mio carattere. Quello che volevo dire è che il razzismo in Italia non è iniziato oggi ma c'è da parecchi decenni, io penso che il razzismo che c'era in Italia negli anni 90 è peggio di quello che c'è oggi.

@@TheDelem Riguardo al rubare il lavoro questo è un discorso che ci può stare se riferito agli immigrati bianchi dei paesi dell'Europa dell'est che sono quelli che ottengono i lavori decenti, ma gli unici lavori che vedi fare in Italia dalle persone nere è vendere borse e bracialetti per strada e raccogliere pomodori nei campi dell'Italia del sud perciò non mi sembra una grande perdita.

@@marceltresvant8581 ...anche le persone che vengono dall'est fanno lavori che forse gli italiani a quella paga non farebbero... questo è il risultato del capitalismo che sfrutta sempre le persone più deboli come gli immigrati...sono sicuro che questa mentalità aberrante del razzismo si è sviluppata a causa di certa politica che per propri scopi cavalca certe menzogne indecenti ... Marcel è un piacere vedere come scrivi in italiano e un dispiacere che tu non abbia avuto la possibilità di incontrare quella parte di società aperta di pensiero e di modi ... Riguardo al lavoro sicuramente l'Inghilterra offre più possibilità ...infatti anche molti italiani fuggono là .. ti saluto con affetto

Thanks for that and my industry is the digital one 👀

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There is a lot xdd

The racism is part of the black in Italy package unfortunately, brace yourself or prepared to be even more disappointed

... Ho visto il video dell'"aggressione" che lei stessa ha postato... Il tipo aveva evidentemente un deficit mentale... Non so lei ma un italiano lo avrebbe capito immediatamente... E verso metà video sembravano quasi più loro ad istigare lui che il contrario... Il tipo biascicava solo parole sconnesse... Lo avessero ignorato probabilmente si sarebbe fermato al solo "tornate a casa vostra" che si è comunque grave ma non lo definirei un "aggressione" specialmente dato che il tipo evidentemente non aveva cognizione di causa... Onestamente il matto del mio paese a me ha detto di peggio... Tra l'altro una cosa praticamente identica è successa ad una streamer coreana (jinnytty) non ricordo se in Svezia o in Germania... Una passante le ha detto torna a casa in cina... Lei senza neanche fermarsi le ha risposto sono coreana e se n'è andata.... Il tutto è finito li... Senza tutto questo vittimismo...

Ahhahahah 😅 well, yes, in this video 😂

I live in Milan🙂 the most liberal city in Italy next to maybe Bologna-I pass the holidays in Marche and worked for a year in Rome. I’ve been to every major city on the peninsula multiple times except for Naples, and I did this all while being a black woman my whole life: I know exactly what I’m talking about.

@@misstiataylor_ ok but you should know, and I bet you do, than Lombardia is overall much more racist than the rest of Italy. And Milan, although being more liberal, is still in Lombardia. Since you've lived in other areas like the super left-winged Bologna, why generalizing? knowing how Lombardia is historically leghista (for the most part). I simply refuse to be put in the same cathegory, as a whole country, with the motherland of Lega.

You can trust me like a brother if I tell you (and I'm a teacher of Italian language and culture) that Italian "racism" is not to be compared with the american one. It's of a different sort, not to be' taken too personal. Cause Italians, especially northerners, will always have something against outsiders. Believe me, I was discriminated in the north because I'm son of Sicilians, while being discriminated in Sicily as "northerner". And I was extremely discriminated in Rome simply because I wasn't roman.

Thank you, white, Italian man, for telling me what racism in Italy is like for me, a black, foreign woman (you do realize how ridiculous it is?). I'm not generalizing, and I'm not comparing anything. I am talking about my life and experiences THROUGHOUT your country over almost a decade. I'm saying as a black person you will face racist incidents where ever, based on my personal experience, and comments such as yours are in no way productive nor do they make sense. Just because I don't identify or agree with the USA indiscriminately bombing countries they deem need to be bombed, doesn't change the reality, which is that it happens. How about you stop comparing your experience as a southerner to the experience of black people because it's not the same... you're aware that racist incidents happen in the south right? you're aware that even your own Sicily literally votes centro destra and lega, right? When I wnt to Catania the only Black women I saw were prostitutes being pimped out in broad daylight... is it supposed to be a welcoming scene? How does that reality impact the actual perception of Black women in the area and what do the natives do about it? I have plenty of black friends born and raised in Veneto that will say that is the most racist region in Italy meanwhile I've never felt more uncomfortable in my life than I felt in a certain city in Puglia. I wasn't let onto a train due to my skin color in Rome and I was almost physically attacked in Milan.. but I shouldn't take it personally... you expect me to raise black children here. You're saying nonsense. Vote better and fix your country rather than try to gaslight me and other people of color, just to make yourself feel better apparently. Like I said in the video, it's not that these things happen that make me realize that my days in Italy are actually numbered-- no, it is actually comments like yours that make me feel this way. The white moderate who think they're 'helping' you and the situation when actually they don't even listen. The people that refuse to confront reality and refuse to take the LIVED EXPERIENCES of people of color into account.

@@filipporubino4163 you can't compare regional "campanilismo" and actual racism. Also, racism isn't more or less prominent in the north, there are more racist events because there are more immigrants.

😂😂😂 well.. thanks!

@ccurlychicca unfortunately I'm not informed enough about this episode...but it's really disgusting. And the tough statement I made about Italy remains!

@ccurlychicca personalmente mi sembra che stia montando un pò di rabbia generale...ma i motivi mi sono sconosciuti. Capisco la pandemia (io sono rimasto senza lavoro per otto mesi), ma il resto no. E si... solidarietà totale a Tia!

I think you people are very young so probably you don't know about it but it's wrong to say that Italy became a s...hole or that there is more rage or more racism because such kind of racial agressions and racist incidents always happened in this country. I'm not black but I had black friends who have been racially assaulted and racially abused more then once back in the 90s and in the 00s here in Italy, and we're talking about 20, 30 years ago. If I have to be honest back to those days there was more racism than today, it's surely hard to be black in Italy today, no doubt about it, but probably it was even harder in those days.

@@Giorgio_Cerrini You're totally right, I grew up in italy in the 90s as a black kid and as a black teenager and Italy was a racist hell. I don't live in Italy anymore since several years so I know about Italy mostly through news and through internet, I know there's a lot of racism against black people but it was like that even back in those days. It amazes me how very often I see Italians saying things like "Italy became very racist" or "racism in Italy increased a lot in this era" lol, Italy was always like that, maybe even worse than now. Probably as you said these people are very young so they don't know. Racism in Italy didn't start today, you just have to ask to those black people who grew up in Italy in the 80s, 90s, 00s, they surely renember very well about racism in Italy.

@@alessandrobanovich6847 Guarda io sono nero e sono cresciuto in Italia negli anni 90 (ora non ci vivo più) e ti posso assicurare che è sempre stato così in Italia, probabilmente era anche peggio a quei tempi, io e i miei amici neri ne abbiamo subiti di insulti razzisti e di aggressioni razziste, il razzismo in Italia non è nato oggi, basta chiedere a chi è nero ed è cresciuto in Italia negli anni 80, 90, 00.

Agreed 🙈