Professor Luca Coniglio gives you an Italian perspective on the way Americans see Italy and its people. Enjoy all the mistakes, stereotypes and misconseptions!
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00:22 Religion
02:22 Family
05:34 Food
09:32 Language
12:32 History
14:39 Lifestyle
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This is so insightful! ❤
I will never get tired of learning about this
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Great presentation and helpful knowledge to consider. This helps all in understanding the real Italy. Great job!!
Prof. Coniglio saying that Italy is behind France and Spain when it comes to total number of tourists surprised me.
Pasta all'Alfredo was invented in Italy in Rome. The only ingredients are pasta, butter and parmigiano. The Italian American version comprehends a lot of other stuff, hence Pasta Alfredo has nothing of Italian cuisine
Just hearing about your channel via NYTN. Fascinating topics. My maternal GGparents came over from the Basilicata region which hardly anyone else seems to know about except Francis Ford Coppola. I’m interested to learn more about the history and culture.
I came to this video from @nytn who has a great channel herself. I find these subjects really interesting and look forward to the other videos.
Italy has fallen.
I am a Brazilian with some remote Italian roots. I always thought Italians were indeed quite Catholic. I'm surprised that's not the case anymore. Quite interesting. Brazil is ceasing to be a Catholic country but it's replacing it with Evangelical Protestantism, which scares me for our future as they have a lot of extremely conservative views on gender, sexuality and individual rights. I wish we were turning secular like Italy. Thank you for your videos.
Ciao, sono un nuovo iscritto. Complimenti per il canale, molto interessante, topics ganzi e presentati bene. Auguri per lo sviluppo e la crescita della community! 😊
Good video. Your english is not bad either. Some minor mistakes here and there (mostly regarding prepositions) but overall very understandable.
Gli spaghetti con le polpette al sugo sono tipiche della Sicilia .
Professor thank you so much for this!! I'm curious, when your colleagues at Italian universities who are sociologists look at the low birthrate issue, what do they see? What do they attribute this to? What solutions have politicians advanced (if any…)?
As an Italian-American (from 1917 emigrati) about to visit Italy for the first time (Puglia-Basilicata-Campania), you gave me hope at tasting some new regional food that isn’t like what we have here… It would be interesting to map out where each of the Italian-American foods originated from: piccata, Marsala, francese, cacciatore, alfredo, “shrimp scampi”, manicotti, etc.
Would love to hear more cultural history from you, and also how the history contributes to Italy's current cultural and political situation.
Big up to the professor, all correct tho he might wanna work on his accent, lmao, just kidding. I'd add another dumbass stereotype about italian being all fashionable and dressing all these branded outfit, seriously guys GTFOH. Truth is you'll find the skater kiddo with baggy pants, the dude living in a tracksuit all day, all sort of subcultures you can think of are represented, colored hair are the norm among young kids and large portion of population only have contempt for people dressing GUCCI and shit. I'm italian and i only wear vans and chino, when I was in LA every other guy came to me saying "homie" so there's that. Guess what we also have tons of vegan italians imagine that. Last but not least judging entire cities by their historical center since the american brain can't understand urban development in european cities and the concept of center vs the rest of the city. We don't just have downtown and then sad ass suburbia. There's a whole lot in between and its not all nice and postcard like, it can be rough and dangerous AF. Rome in particular ,where I live, is the most misrepresented, all you bunch of dum dum with your videos are stuck in a portion that amount at about 20% of the actual city of rome that has the lowest amount of actual roman resident, it's a postcard created for you and sold you with BS movies like the one prof talks of. You miss all the rest, that is at once: dirty, crazy, colorful in ways you'd expect brooklyn or Berlin to be, dangerous, cheap, loud, hipster, melting pot, but most of all REAL.
My father ( b 1907) had at least 42 cousins – he wasn't Italian or Catholic but a Scots presbyterian.Admittedly a lot were half cousins because his grandfather married twice with 7 children to each wife ( 1st wife died aged 34 ).
si, in Veneto siamo tutti cattolici e profondamente religiosi
ci sono cose cmq in cui non sono d'accordo, per esempio la lingua che comunque il 70% dei dialetti discende dalla stessa lingua, la lingua italo-dalmata o anche per il fatto che soprattutto nel rinascimento si comincio ad usare sempre di più l'Italiano(fiorentino) come lingua nobile o anche che anche se prima non eravamo uno stato eravamo comunque chiamati italiani dagli altri popoli .
tutti gli stati preunitari avevano l'italiano come lingua ufficiale. Ovviamente mano a mano che l'alfabetizzazione progrediva, gli italiani diventavano bilingue, usando il dialetto a casa e con gli amici e l'italiano nelle occasioni formali. Poi c'è il fatto che l'uso dell'italiano come lingua parlata da tutti è relativamente recente, ma la capacità di comprendere l'italiano è ampia e di antica data. Già nell'800 si notava che gli italiani pur non sapendo parlare l'italiano, lo comprendevano abbastanza bene. Il merito è nei giornali, scritti sempre in italiano da secoli, nelle prediche dei preti in chiesa, fatte sempre in italiano, e nelle occasioni formali di lavoro, politica, diplomazia, arte e letteratura che sempre facevano uso dell'italiano. Insomma quello che tu dici che tua madre non comprenderebbe un napoletano è falso. Sia il napoletano, sia tua madre, parlando quel poco di italiano che eventualmente conoscono, potrebbero comunicare agevolmente. Come spieghi che nella prima guerra mondiale sono stati arruolati 6 milioni di cittadini che formavano reparti in cui erano mischiate fra di loro tutte le regioni italiane, si comprendevano fra di loro e mai hanno avuto problemi a capire un ordine ricevuto? insomma lo straniero che segue il tuo video potrebbe avere l'impressione di una nazione che sta insieme per sbaglio. E questo non è vero. L'Italia tra l'altro è molto più omogenea di quanto tu pensi sotto molti aspetti. Lo dimostra il fatto anche, che fatti come l'uscita della Scozia dalla Gran Bretagna o della Catalogna dalla Spagna, da noi, nonostante anni e anni di propaganda leghista, sarebbero impensabili. Propaganda fra l'altro ampiamente finanziata dall'estero. Comunque, va bene, ciao e buone cose.
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Ayayayay… Eat Pray Love is terrible as a book and a movie.
#1 is only true if you don't count most of southern Italy (the place over 90% of Italian American's came from). So it is no wonder why American's associate Italians with Catholicism.
However, southern Italians and their emmigrant relatives have never been "religious" in the Protestant American sense of the term meaning that we have always been more attached to our traditions and superstitions than the actual meaning behind them and our strong sense of anti-clericalism even shocked our fellow Irish Catholic immigrants who found it difficult to manage our rituals.
We have always been, and by in large continue to be "culturally Catholic" because Catholicism is inextricably linked to our identity not as a "religion" but as a way of life.
Did Italy ever have "nation wide" popular dishes before Mussolini though?
Auguri Luca, progetto bellissimo. Non so se conosci questo articolo del Prof. Frank Barron un mio caro amico… Barron, F., & Young, H. B. (1970). Rome and Boston: A tale of two cities and their difference on the creativity and personal philosophy of Southern Italian immigrants. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1(2), 91-114.
I read once that one reason that Italian American pasta sauce is so tomatoey is because in the south tomatoes grew more plentiful where they came from. Of course maybe Italian Americans changed the recipe of the ragu as well not just that it’s more tomatoes .
Was watching the video with your friend Daniela and her brother and he talks about helping make loads of strained tomato sauce (passata) in the southern village . It was quite something .
Oh another thing once I heard some Canadians complain that the pasta was too “heavy” in Italy, i was surprised because the sauces are light but I think what they probably meant was that it was less mushy and more al dente. Whereas often in North America it’s cooked longer and becomes a more mushy dish together with the more liquid sauce.
Regarding Italian birth rates vs the US ones. Every baby being born in the US is automatically an American citizen. Babies being born in Italy to non Italian parents have to wait until they turn 18 before they can apply for the Italian citizenship. What I've also noticed interacting with English speaking people on Facebook, is that they believe we're all brown eyed, brown or black haired people with what you might call olive skin. In reality there are also blondes, redheads, green or blue eyed people as well as fair skinned people. Many men/women have been going to tanning salons for many years and will continue to do so for many years more. An other myth is that we're all thin and walk everywhere. There are many overweight to morbidly obese people, not as many as in the US, but they're there. A shop where I live has been selling only plus sized women's clothes for the past forty years. As for the second point, not everyone likes walking. Many rely on their mopeds, bicycles (normal and electric), cars and recently also on their electric scooters
Good video. And as an Italian American living in Rome, I think you're right. Ironically, I found people in Umbria (where my family immigrated from) to be surprisingly more religious than people living in Rome, right next door to the Vatican.
Thank you, Professore Luca. When I studied Italian in high school the teacher mentioned that what we were learning was “proper Italian”. I was not aware that this language was so young.
Overall, I learned so much about Italy in this video. Grazie. ❤🇮🇹
This is a great video. I just came back from Italy on a vacation with family and yes we live in the US. I’m planning to retire next year and I am looking for a school believe it or not to study Italian in Italy. Can you recommend school or institute, for an older person to study the Italian language, if so, please provide the name and the city. I am a Spanish speaker and when I was in Italy, at least in Livorno, I was able to speak Spanish and for the most part, people understood me. I think it fascinating that the language is so different in various parts of the country. Thanks
Well done! I only disagree about general historical knowledge. Maybe we ignore what temple in Rome was built by Emperor Caracalla ( since ancient Roman history is long, complex and we study it in the early years of high school ) but we certainly study history in schools, I mean, we know at least the basics of a lot of Italian and European history such as Rinascimento, Baroque ect ect
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Hello. It would be a good idea for you to get a microphone for your videos. The audio would greatly benefit from it.
One thing Italians in Italy get wrong is that here in the US they think that we are all the same. Just like your regions are different from each other our states are all different from each other especially the people and the food. I am of Sicilian descent born in the US and we NEVER ever saw or had spaghetti with meatballs. I cannot even look at it and disgusts me. We eat meatballs and we eat spaghetti but not together! Ewwww You will see this combination in other states though. Our pasta dishes were very light. Thank you great video!
Interesting video. I'm English and have been living in the north of Italy for 10 years now. I'm in a civil union with my Italian partner, and we live in a very quiet part of Lombardy, near the Swiss border, but not too far from Milano. I disagree that the Roman accent is easy to understand, having learnt Italian in Lombardy! Some of the older folk here still speak the Lombardy language, and it's common to use a mixture of dialect and Italian. It's a busy area with tourism (mostly German and Dutch visitors here) and many of the working age population cross the border daily to work in Switzerland, so it's quite wealthy too. Families tend to be small, one or two children being the norm as usually both parents work. The food, as you say, is still very regional with typical local dishes being popular (polenta!) though the influence of cosmopolitan Milano is spreading with places like McDonald's opening up locally. I think American visitors would find this area very far from the stereotype Italy they may be expecting to find, though the lake and Alpine scenery is absolutely beautiful.
My cousins in Napoli never marry in church for a generation even our funerals are secular and cremation is becoming popular
I, just since 2013, have learned about my Italian heritage. I was able to get my Italian citizenship recognized in February 2018. We retired in Italy that same year and love it. I wanted to comment on the Food segment. I think another reason that Italian food in Italy tastes better is also the way it is cooked and the ingredients used. Most, if not all, of the ingredients in food in Italy are fresh, made daily. Not frozen. We eat much more healthy here than in the US. I am enjoying your videos very much!
Scusa, ma che "italian professor" sei, se non conosci gli ziti e gli spaghetti con le polpette? Meta' della mia famiglia e' calabrese (ma io vivo e son nato ad Asti) e mia madre e mia nonna fanno la pasta con le polpette, sia di carne, che di melanzane, e che buone che sono!!! Altro che storie…