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That goes usually for Southern Italy and Sicily because greeks used to have colonies there. Many many colonies. And apart from that it's obvious in the average italian between the average greek comparison. We look alike a lot. Grandmas and grandpas in italian villages are like you see grandpas and grandmas from a greek village. But we don't look alike just in appearance. Una faccia una razza is not just a phrase. It's true! It's weird, but in a good way.
@@boofy2592 You're telling me that Greeks and Italians (Romans), two of the most dueling civilizations are basically the same in DNA. Wow, sure should have discovered DNA testing back in the day!
@ROBERT FERRAIOLI nobody in this particular thread grouped them all together, we just agreed that Mediterranean culture is the best. Nobody said the Spanish=Greeks=Italians=Portugese=etc..
I'm Italian on my mom's side and all my guy cousins married Greek girls. Our family holidays are insane. We are the loudest group of people you have ever met.
I'm italian on my dad's side and I can say that not all italians are loud. At least not mine anyway. My family are cold. And they're very nice to people and welcoming but are very judgemental. They are not party people, they're very old school and not family oriented we are divided there's no peace or love. My family are a different breed of italians
I had exactly the same reaction.... I'm Italian and I am from.... Milan. So it must be a very Italian thing. Only difference: my nonnA not my nonnO used to be like that, she wore the trousers in their household. And no spelling mistakes allowed. Not one, never made one but got beaten for way less.... sloppy handwriting, for example. No messing about with her as far as school was concerned. She would have liked to become a teacher but she hadn't been allowed to by her dad. Long lost memories. Nonna, aka la generalessa, would be 116 now.
My father was an Italian Australian and he told me that there are a lot of Greeks in Australia. He use to live in Darwin Australia where there is a huge Greek population.
I have a similar experience with my greek grandpa, who told me not to touch the axe that was by the garden. I was 3 or 4 y.o. I tried to pick it up, it fell on my leg and started bleeding badly, everyone was getting crazy and my grandpa was just sitting on his chair reading the newspaper, still remember him saying "I told her not to touch it".
Atartee my grandson was being dumb with his machete and cut himself ..while he was “ bleeding to death” lol my ex walked in stepped over him and said “ dumb ass”
My Pappou recently passed away two weeks ago, and this made me laugh so much and to think about how lovable but actually ‘crazy’ he was! It’s the little quirks that make you feel thankful. Loved you stories!
Im greek and my mother thinks chamomile or ksematiasma are the solution for everything.Stomachache,headache,cancer,heart attack episode,insomnia,bad grades.Everythiiiing.
Omg i can tell now growing in Greece that when i was young i had great respect for vix because my family had great respect for vix and i had it in my head as well the respect of sth very powerful and valuable! It was almost magical. They would tell me, my mother, that it is great but not specifically for what but for many things. And for that I had huge respect for the tree it comes from anf would check how it looks on the encyclopedia! Haha I think my mother thought that if you rub Vicks its very good for you for so many things! That is how these things start!
Speaking as a Greek, the combination of Italy and Greece in only ONE DNA, is just awesome. It doesn't get better,hungrier, crazier! Italians will be our brothers for life! We truly are una facca una raccia.💓💟💝 LOVE them!
@@mikefere4905 Ασε την δικη μου την ιστορία , δόξα τω θεω γνωρίζω😂😚. Κι όχι μονο ιστορία, αλλά και άλλες ανθρώπινες αξίες των οποίων η έλλειψη δεν βοηθά την νοημοσύνη των ανθρώπων να αναπτυχθεί. Εκτός κι αν είσαι απ'αυτά τα παιδια του Δημοτικού που μαθαίνεις την ιστορία από το φανταστικό αυτό βιβλίο, του οποίου μοναδικός πρωταγωνιστής και ήρωας είναι ο Έλληνας.. τι αμεροληψία είναι αυτή? 😂😂😂 ουδείς αναμάρτητος. Αντιμετώπισε το και προχώρα πριν είναι αργα😉💗
@@mikefere4905 fact: στη νοτια Ιταλια και στη Σικελια ειναι πολυ εντονα τα κοινα χαρακτηριστικα μεταξυ ιταλων και ελληνων. Το πρωτο πραγμα που θα σου πουν αν ακουσουν οτι εισαι Ελληνας ειναι να ρωτησουν για επιβεβαιωση τι κοινα εχουμε και να σου πουν οτι μαλλον ειναι λογω μιξης του dna τους με το δικο μας. Οι διαφορες μεταξυ βορειων Ιταλων και νοτιων ειναι τοσο εντονες με τους νοτιους να εχουν τοσα κοινα με εμας που το βλεπεις και μονος σου χωρις να στο επιβεβαιωσει καποιος ντοπιος. Επισης, τα μισα μερη που θα δεις σε νοτια Ιταλια και Σικελια εχουν σχεση με την Magna Grecia και το θεωρουν ως κατι δεδομενο ο περιγυρος τους να ειναι γεματος με ελληνικες αναφορες ειτε εχουν ειτε δεν εχουν ελληνικες ριζες. Απο Ναπολι και κατω ισχυουν τα παραπανω (Ναπολι=Νεαπολη). Για κλεισιμο, οι κατοικοι της Κατω Ιταλιας και της Σικελιας μεχρι το '50 μιλουσαν δικες τους διαλεκτους αναλογα την πολη και το χωριο (σε πολλες περιπτωσεις οι διαλεκτοι αυτες ηταν ελληνικες), αλλα τους επιβληθηκε να μαθουν Ιταλικα, κατι που ακομα και σημερα θυμουνται με πικρια οι περισσοτεροι.
I am Greek but have Sicilian heritage. I happen to think this is the best combination ever. Except for the craziness, of course, but it is part of our charm.
My Greek grandfather gives me money in a very unique way one could say.. He basically plants the money in his front pocket of his shirt and just comes to me in a - not so discreet- way so I'll see it and take it(and I am always too shy to take it but he doesn't exactly leave me any choice) and then he is like.. Why did you take my moneyyyy and then he starts laughing... And you can bet he does that everytime😂he is so precious
Owner of a Siciliano Nonno here. If you messed with his “limons” (lemons) you got whacked with his prized wooden plank that he kept within arm’s reach at all times. He also had a collection of approximately 15 stray cats, all named ‘Ciccio’. He hated cats but insisted on keeping them around because they would scare the ‘bastardo’ birds away from his precious fruit trees. He smoked rollies from the age of 11 because apparently that’s how kids in Sicily kept cold during the winter but his only ailment was a pesky haemorrhoid that he affectionately named ‘Roberto’ after his dead brother.
And the sad thing is, as a Sicilian, I realized one thing. We suck at defending attacks from other countries but we can make a mean braciole. Got our ass whipped by Africa, Persia, Spain, and Egypt. We were too busy cooking when we should've been fighting. Lol!!
South Italy is still called Magna Grecia by Greeks,which stands for Great Greece, because it was firstly inhabited by Greek settlers back in the antiquity till the Byzantine (Roman) era. Even today there are a couple villages at Magna Grecia who speak a certain Greek dialect. Italians and Greeks use this same phrase that describes how connected we are " una facca, una razza" meaning same face (personality) same race. Fun fact, there are dozens of pages from Italy on facebook which promote their Greek heritage. I my self, am 1/4 Italian and 3/4 Greek :P
Ha ha! I haven't heard anyone other than my old man (who is Greek) say or make reference to "una fazza, una razza" for the longest time! I love the vague similarities Mediterranean languages have with one another. If you know Greek, you can kind of get the general jist of Spanish or Italian, or vice-versa.
akAsha6E6D Greeks are significantly more genetically related and culturally similar to Italians than to Spaniards. Spanish are Iberian, closely related to North Africans and Portuguese. Italians are Mediterranean’s, closely related to Greeks, Israelis etc.
The reason why the Windex is funny, and even whats probably the reasoning for your pappou, is that in Greece, rubbing alcohol is used as treatment for a lot of different things, and in Greece it came blue not clear. So when Greeks come to the US and other countries, they think that what theyre using is the same because its blue.
@@newdamage5945 Because Aussies typically are anglo/celtic. Its less Pan-European than the USA where they have many different European ethnicities who have been there for centuries.. In my opinion an Aussie is someone born here with European Ancestry, typically anglo/celtic but also southern/eastern European.
its a gift thing lol. Asian people, European people and people everywhere just give cash in envelopes. shit i use to get money wrapped in a rubber band for christmas. like 75 dollars in 5's wrapped with a rubber band in a tight roll haha
@@Ares14 Tbh I wouldn't have cared if I'd have just been given the cash in the envelope instead of with a card because I always used to lose the cards within an hour anyway hahaha
Consider "yeeneka" a term of endearment reserved for a man to his wife. There is nothing sexist or demeaning about it. I typically call my wife by name, though I've used yeeneka, but I prefer "neefee mou", which means "my bride" (which, after nearly 40 yrs, brightens her mood and causes her and me to lovingly smile as we recall wedding).
That is so sweet haha, and yes I didn’t understand why he said that word was misogynistic nor the joke he made about it? I’m an american so maybe it’s just language difference but I don’t get the “gee i want to neck her” joke. Unless it means “strangle” which i don’t particularly like...
in italy, referring to greek people, we say "one face, one race" in italian "una faccia, una razza". if it's not clear, it means that we consider greek of our own "race" (It doesn't want to be a racist thing).
That moment when you introduce your Italian relatives with the following words: "You have to understand he is from a different country and from a different era." And deep down you know it's just a miserable way to explain Italian frenzy to people who grew up in a temperate society. HILARIOUS!
I'm Serbian, and we're sort of considered a part of Mediterranean culture, or just incredibly like them. Mentality-wise very much alike and also best friends with Greeks, that could be it as well! Or I was italian in my past life 😂
My greek grandma thought that “kókkino” (which means red and is basically a iodine tincture for anti-bacterial purposes) would cure ANYTHING When we fell and scraped ourselves she’d say «Βάλε κόκκινο να γειάνει» When something was itchy she’d say the same She used it on everyone! Humans, cats, dogs, birds She was an amazing woman, honestly
The other ridiculously accurate thing from My Big Fat Greek Wedding was Greeks attributing everything to Greece. Then again, it’s true! (Clearly I am Greek)
Well, with the exception of modern sciences (software engineering for example) that use terms mostly of english origin, most of the other sciences use greek and latin based terms and because latin used more word loans fron greek than in reverse, greek are more dominant in science terms, so that belief is not entirely out of reality.
@@elenasavva1 They really don't. The Portuguese demeanor is generally characterized by melancholy and pessimism. It's an overarching theme in all their culture, from literature to music to everyday life. In fact a statistical study on the temperament in European countries ranks Portugal as the 3rd most introverted country in Europe (after Lithuania and Poland). Portugal is really not like the other Medditeranean countries, which makes sense, considering Portugal is not even a Mediteranean country to begin with.
This is hilarouos and the comments are too! You forgot Croatia and The Balcans, very similar to Italian and Greeks. I'm from Croatia and I was raised that rakija (strong alcohol) and garlic cure everything, from a wound, stomach ache or cold/flu. I haven't had chance of meeting any of my grandfathers tho.
I'm half Italian and half Greek, I barely have speaking English down. Lol. The food was fantastic! My Italian grandfather always give us silver dollars, I wish I would've save them all.
You go to southern Italy in Apulia they have Grecchinos. They have been in there 500 years before Christ at the very least and southern Italy was once called Magna Grecia.
@@giuliaalex54 I know it is but I'm asking about the little design in the middle, usually they put a design specifically for each AC game but I've just never seen that one.
I consider myself a Northern Greek I did a DNA test just out of curiosity expecting some Slavic or Turkish DNA in there somewhere. My results came back Greek/Italian. They actually cant tell the difference between Greek and Italian DNA guys and that's a scientific fact. Una faccia una raccia
LMAO! I'm half Greek too, and my Greek grandparents (who are the generation before yours, born 1902) believed Lysol was the miracle fix all. There was a can in every room of the house! My Papou was also an avid gardener, he caught me in his strawberry patch munching away and I thought he was going to kill me, but he just laughed and joined me. I swear I only got away with it because I was so young! 😂 But I really laughed at the chili pepper story, because my Papou used to chase my cousins with hot peppers and put them in their mouths to punish them for foul language! 😂 They also always gave us cash, but it was always in secret, with a finger to the mouth, shhh.. me leis tipota! This worked out great for us, because both YiaYia and Papou would do this and we never said tipota!😂😂😂
Elderly people here in Italy still use to give cash in envelopes to their grandchildren as presents. No cards, no nothing😀. Same sum for all, usually. 'you buy what you like. I couldn't guess what you like. So do as you please' they say. Love them.
My dad's side is Greek, mom's side is Italian. Every Sunday my mom's side gets together (usually my Poppy and sometimes Uncle) and we eat pasta! We celebrate Greek Easter and my Yia Yia makes the best food 😋
Bro I know you re probably trying to sound a little dramatic, but when your pappou is calling your grandma gyneka this comes from wifey (although strictly translating it means woman)...so...not so misogynist pappou you ve got there. he wouldn't dare call an other woman gyneka.
I think he's basing the "misogyny" characterisation mostly on the fact that his grandpa doesn't call her by her name and not so much on the exact meaning of the word "gyneka"... Hence the joke about him not knowing her real name.
@@alexsandra7173 I got the joke all the way. But it's not misogynistic. Can't wait for the day where kids will be called misogynists because they call their mom "mom" and not by her name..
@@theali8oras274 it's not a random lady down the street. It's the woman whom you ve probably been sharing the last 3 decades (at least) with so (ya know ma men) it could probably be not misogynistic. Aight? Now it's the same like malaka ya know. If ya call your best buddy malaka no big deal but call a random guy malaka...you re screwed probably! That's what I mean aight?
All your description about the Italian grandpa fit 100% for the Greek grandpa's and grandma's, especially the cash in the envelop lol. Una faccia una raccia.
My greek grandma always keeps pictures of us. And one day my (also greek) grandpa looked at the wall with the pictures and asked me"Who is that little fat baby boy?"... and he start yelling at me.I was in the picture and I'm a girl. I love him.
The entire listerine thing is real. Dr Lister was an Army doctor, considered to be the father of modern anti sepsis that was around during the construction of the Panama Canal and did more work to protect people’s safety in difficult locations that were ripe with disease.
When is was like 5, my Greek grandma would give my cousins and I money in envelopes on holidays and tell us to go buy "τσιγάρa". God bless her, she is the strongest woman I know other than my mom. My mom from Kastania and my dad from Athens makes me greek af lol
It is the same all over Italy.... I'm not from Palermo, I'm from the North, Liguria. When I lived in London as a teenager people used to ask me what I missed from Italy. "my father's tomatoes".... baffled reaction. I used to live with an English family and one day I received a parcel with of botlle of olive-oli from my father. The reaction of the English family was.... ok you're *very* Italian even if you are so white that you look British. But they seemed to enjoy the olive oil from our olive grove. When I went home for Christmas I asked them if I could bring anything back for them. They looked at each other, slightly embarassed "the olive oil is almost finished... maybe another bottle? " "being Italian must be contagious" was my reply.
04:07 Just like my Italian dad lol. He was always so proud of his garden. He grew daffodils in one corner and each spring when they grew, he’d cut some for me and my mother. I miss him 💜
9:00 Gynaika also means wife in greek -_- , so your grandpa wasn't misogynistic at all . But in any case that's a word only people over 70 years old use .
I'm a Greek Aussie who lives in the USA. My Mum is Australian and my Dad was right off the boat from Greece. When my sister and I saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding we sobbed thru a lot of it. There were a lot of exagerated things in the movie but being women with a Greek heritage I think we could probably relate more to it than you, as a man. My daughters asked me why I was crying because it's so funny. I told them "Because this was my life." And a lot of it was my life. I laughed at a lot of it and I can laugh at things in my life and things that my Dad did and said, now, looking back on it all. But, at the time, it was a constant struggle to try and be a normal kid and young woman, growing up in Australia and the United States. Everything is about reputation with the Greeks. Plus after visiting Greece and the village where my Dad grew up I can see that he and a lot of his fellow immigrants brought their old ways with them (greatly influenced by the Turks during the Turkish occupation of Greece) and stuck with them while the Greeks back home have continued to grow and change with the times and are more cosmolitan with their traditions and ideas. I used to joke about the only differece between my Dad & the Turks was that he didn't make us wear a hijab. My Big Fat Greek Wedding was written by a Greek woman who experienced these things. You as a Greek man will never be able to understand what we as Greek women went thru so please don't negate the whole movie as a made up hollywood version of Greek life when you can't possibly know what you're talking about as a man of Greek heritage.
Oh my God I love listening to you you are so amazing I am so glad I found you . As a Greek this is so much fun . I'm always surprised to see other people online that are Greek or speak the language .
I am half Italian and half Mexican. Lol, the part with the money for Christmas is incredibly accurate for Italian grandfathers. 😆😂🤣😭 I miss my Nonno. 💖
We do have listerine in Greece too, no need for παππού to bring it with him next time 😜 by the way, I am half Greek - half Italian too, I appreciate your perfect Greek accent ❤
I'm very Greek I'm more Greek than English but I'm 14 with a deep voice and at school I had to learn English. But my favourite song artists are: Ice Cube, Snoop, Tupac and Nwa.
My Greek grandfather was very proud of his garden and his house. On a ladder painting his house the day before he died at 93 years old. Mediterraneans work hard, and live long. My friends Italian grandfather believed in Windex to heal all wounds.
I'm also half italian- half greek and I confirm about 85% of the things said in this video! My nonno used to dress up as santa Claus to give us gifts mid day, when we played semolina (a game were children find money in sawdust piles) he was always the one to provide the money, he has an orto (vegetable garden) he is sooo proud of, and once when a fox attacked his chickens he tried to shoot it with his unlicenced rifles. Also he has a big cage full of birds. My pappous on the other hand was not that similar, but he thought vix is the cure for everything! ❤️
And the salotto made me laugh so hard! Ours is even covered in white sheets and full of dust, cause even when we have guests we greet them in the kitchen