American reacts to Italy - Geography Now! Italy (REACTION)

[@MrItaliansound]

14:41 "Terroni" is a word I don't like. I'm from the north and I know that for South Italians that word is very offensive. It comes from the italian world "terra" wich in this case means "land", So Terroni= people of the land = land workers=low agricultural labor. It is offensive because those who use it, express the concept of wanting to make them feel inferior.

[@MC-ol5nk]

Infatti come parola in se non sarebbe offensiva... anzi molto umile... il problema è sempre che é stata usata per offendere e per sminuire chi emigrava al nord, etichettando come "ignorante" "incapace" ora mezzo nord è sud quella parola non ha più senso 😂😂😂😂😂

[@mqw.4377]

A good translation for "terroni" would be "dirtlings"

[@zerocool1981]

@@mqw.4377 it is more similar to the use of the word "rednecks" in the north of the USA.

[@emerdigiorgio3594]

@peoplebroth: Ma senza agricoltura la gente muore di fame quindi Benedetti coloro che lavorano la terra!

[@emerdigiorgio3594]

Gli italiani del Sud lottarono e morirono anche loro per fare l'Italia.E coltivarono la terra da dove viene il nutrimento.

[@gioriemma_]

Italian understand with each other, dialects are used only during home life and with friends. For the rest we use Italian language so we can understand with other Italians

[@rian7083]

welllllll,i have a sicilian cousin that can not (literaly) speak regular italian,we had to translate some things (like chair,and other objects in their house)

[@cit5184]

@@rian7083 I mean it happens, but it's not the norm, dialects are becoming more and more rarely spoken with the passage of time, I myself can't understand when some old people speak in a really stronb form of my own dialect since i really only use some terminology borrowed from it athwr then speak it regularly,

[@margheritamana832]

i literally don't have any accent so i never comprend what others say

[@christianlasaponara1052]

Bro, che hai detto? Bizzarro ‘sto dialetto.

[@hirpus66]

The part about hand gesture is bullshit. today nobody uses it the way has been explained

[@a.g.styles3500]

You confused Etna with Vesuvius. Etna is an active Volcano while Vesuvius is an explosive volcano, which means that if an eruption comes out from that it's already over.

[@emerdigiorgio3594]

@Mbare Giad...Vai a insegnare a questi ignoranti!

[@cangaroojack]

Chiedo venia, ma se non erro sia l'Etna sia il Vesuvio sono considerati attivi, che poi un vulcano sia esplosivo o con lava fluida è una distinzione separata dall'essere attivo o no

[@caretakerITA]

Vesuvius is still an active volcano. It's "asleep", but still at risk of a destructive eruption (there's a reason why it's one of the volcanoes more under constant check). And yeah, if - it's a big if, her lava stream is probabilly shared with Etna, so Etna works as a safety valve for it - it erupt, will be one of the biggest disasters in history.

[@wernerbeinhart2320]

@@caretakerITA let's hope not. Would be a shame for the people and San Marzano tomatoes

[@XMarkxyz]

@@caretakerITA also last time the Vesuvius erupted was like 1940s approximately, lukily not as destructive as in the past but it made some damages

[@ssanti66]

We're not aggressive, we're passionate! And we like the good things in life, delicious food, stylish clothes, history, art and culture, good friends, and lively conversations. I would not live in any other country.

[@battleangel375]

Mi hai tolto le parole dalla bocca, non c'e' altro da aggiungere, brava, ben detto!!!👏👍👍👍🇮🇹🇮🇹

[@65alef]

Nessuno è perfetto in questo mondo e difetti o cose da criticare ne abbiamo tante pure noi italiani. Ma molto spesso le critiche negative che da fuori ci arrivano sono dettate dall'invidia.

[@Marco-hq6hn]

@@65alef gli unici che odiano l'Italia sono gli italiani

[@65alef]

@@Marco-hq6hn credici

[@Marco-hq6hn]

@@65alef la verità, siamo tra i popoli più autocritici del mondo

[@Myria83]

Each gesture has a specific meaning, in Italy. They are not random. Watching from afar, you can guess the general content and mood of a conversation.

[@cubamilano]

I can not believe that you could say the mood of a conversation, because most of the people think we are arguing when we speak.

[@CaneFumatore]

Not really, it's not a sign language, the signs simply emphasize the speech but there's no way to actually understand what is being said from afar, except for a few gestures.

[@RacingLeaguesRL]

@@CaneFumatore My grandpa managed to get a fork in France at a restaurant via hand gestures and he didn't know french.

[@CaneFumatore]

@@RacingLeaguesRL that isn't really exclusive to italian hand gestures since forks can be easily represented with two fingers

[@RacingLeaguesRL]

@@CaneFumatore Well, true. But you wouldn't understand it easily, as two fingers are often represented as the number 2. Anyway, you can tell what is being said from afar easily if you focus. When I look at people talking I often understand what they're talking about just because of the gestures. Yeah, I'm italian but just saying hand gestures are used by everyone and they help get the speech you're doing to get understood better.

[@stefano_etrusco]

Italian Americans and Italians from Italy are like twins separated at birth and raised in different families. You can tell they are similar, but they grew up differently, their history is different, and you cannot really use one of them to infer anything about the other one.

[@Fedee98]

Gli usa assimilano gli immigrati, non li integrano. Chi diventa americano perde la sua identità iniziale

[@Valagh]

@@Fedee98 il discorso però é un altro. Per dire, io ho un'amica americana, che puntualmente dice di essere 1/4 italiana, 1/4 tedesca, 1/4 marocchina e il rimanente, inglese. Da qui, parte poi sparando a mille su come anche lei sia quindi italiana e adori l'Italia. Di base, gli americani vogliono sentirsi europei di origine (sempre questa ragazza, mi ha detto di avere un amico francese. "Francese di Francia?", ho chiesto. La risposta è stata che no, ovviamente era americano, ma di origini francesi). Le ho detto "okay, tutto molto bello, ma se dell'Europa non sapete niente, perché non vi chiamate solo americani?" (Visto che si portano dietro le radici italo/franco/polacco etc. dei bisnonni). Sai che ha fatto? Ha svagato 😂 neanche a dire che abbia risposto. Ha borbottato che il padre le ha insegnato la mitologia e io ho deciso di tacere, perché che vai a dirle? Che conoscere la mitologia non é come conoscere la data di fondazione della Prima Repubblica?

[@RedellaStrada47]

@@Valagh Perché gli USA sono un Paese estremamente contraddittorio (come il Giappone), per specifici motivi storici. Una di queste contraddizioni è il nazismo contrapposto al regionalismo/razzismo. In sintesi: la loro cultura, come diceva F.F., frulla tutto insieme, schiacciando qualsiasi dissidenza, cantano l'inno nazionale, hanno bandiere ovunque, sono indottrinati fin da piccoli a pensare che gli USA siano la migliore nazione del mondo (destino manifesto), che il capitalismo sia l'unica via, etc. PERO', al contempo, essendo una nazione di immigrati ma razzista (altra contraddizione che qua non approfondisco) ha portato al paradosso che sono tutti americani, non sanno nulla delle terre di origine, ma vogliono sentirsi diversi dagli altri, conservando la propria cultura d'origine. Solo un Paese del genere poteva inventarsi cose come "l'appropriazione culturale", che per qualsiasi altra nazione è una cosa buona, appunto perché hanno un rapporto malato con minoranze e immigrazione: da un lato c'è odio profondo, razzismo, spinte centrifughe all'omologazione, dall'altro c'è il desiderio di ognuno di manifestare la propria differenza all'interno della propria sub-cultura/sub-razza, che però di fatto non esiste, essendo stata centrifugata.

[@MrRobbyvent]

@@Valagh già questa ragazza ha le idee abbastanza confuse, ma non la biasimo.

[@lumaxx2001]

I'm sorry, but I politely disagree with you. Italian Americans are just Americans with an Italian family name. They are born and brought up as Americans, in a totally different cultural and social environment, which has nothing in common with the cultural and social environment a person born and raised in Italy lives on a daily basis. For this same reason, I can feel a young person born in Italy from foreign parents as a fellow Italian more than an Italian American, just because I share the same socio-cultural environment with the former while with the latter I have nothing in common....

[@michelemossotto8563]

About mafia it is true that it currently is a problem here in Italy: they import drugs, fire weapons and sometimes where the mafia is stronger people even have to pay a sort of tax called "pizzo" directly to the mafia on order to not get threatened; also they're often implied with politics too. Luckily since the 90's the mafia is way weaker thanks to the work of police officers, lawyers and judges who risked or lost their life fighting the mafia.

[@matteobottazzi5692]

Si fra ma ti rendi conto che non sapeva ci fosse la mafia da noi, quando quella che c'è/ c'era da loro è la nostra...

[@alist3r226]

@@matteobottazzi5692 siamo un popolo che dove va porta cose buone, cibo, vino, cultura, la mafia...😏😏😏

[@tooru-bestboi9975]

Kakyoin uno di noi

[@magifelixthegoat]

come se non fosse così in tutti i paesi lol.

[@missmoon0184]

But they are still here....

[@gioffala]

in italy and greece more than 2000 years ago we already had a government with a senate and written laws, in the squares we discussed politics, economics, psychology and mathematics, in the rest of europe they still spelled fruit from trees, we have always been 10,000 steps ahead.

[@JohnDoe-zk4rm]

10.000 steps ahead of the Nordics? Oh wow i knew you were evolved but thats very impressive

[@emerdigiorgio3594]

@Giovanni..👍👍👍👏👏👏🇬🇷🇮🇹

[@lucianorosarelli-xr5lr]

Non dimenticare che a Venezia 1200 anni di repubblica dal 500 dc al 1700dc

[@JohnDoe-zk4rm]

@@lucianorosarelli-xr5lr There is only 1 proper civilization and its European. The rest of the world is insecure and brainwashed by religion.

[@lucianorosarelli-xr5lr]

@@JohnDoe-zk4rm specless your knowelage of history is impressive ha ha ha ha ha

[@elenaocchione6099]

I’m italian and i disagree with what the channel is saying about our gestures. We don’t do them because we can’t understand each others: when we talk to someone we don’t know, we talk in italian, not in dialect. In some regions people have more accent than in others, but an italian abosutely understand without problems. We do gestures unconsciously to communicate something we can’t espress at words. It’s hard to explain, i know, but it’s for integrete the message, not to communicate the message. We’re not wild

[@angieef8089]

Parlava del passato e di come i gesti si sono creati, essendo che in passato ogni regione parlava una lingua diversa e l’italiano ancora non era presente si usavano i gesti. Non so se è una storia o una cosa reale ma comunque parlava del passato non del presente dove ora mai i gesti sono un punto in più

[@Manuel_DN]

dai, hanno ragione, se ci fai caso nessuno capisce un caxo

[@jorwijma2818]

I'm from the Netherlands, and i'm here just to say to all Italian people: i just love Italy, i learned so much more about your amazing country.. and holy moly! Italian women are gorgeous, that alone would be a reason to visit italy again.

[@leodovidio55]

I think the same for your country (and your women too). Love from Italia

[@maxdelpo5578]

Thank you for this message

[@giovanniquargentan6198]

@@leodovidio55 daje leo ci facciamo le olandesi😂

[@maikopasma9176]

I'm italian and I'm learning your language

[@Random_voice_actor]

Now i test your knowledge: tell me where Veneto is (Its ok if you get it wrong and pls dont look it up)

[@Shendue]

In northern Italy we generally use hand gestures less than southern italians. An interesting thing I noticed is that a lot of people from other countries, including americans, who laughs at or are fascinated by italians' gesturing, actually use hand gestures a lot themselves, maybe less then some southern italians but often more than the average northern italian, yet they they seem oblivious to it, much like italians aren't fully conscious of how much they gesture. Just pay attention to american youtubers and you'll see that actually A LOT of them use hand gestures. It's just that we subconsciously tend to pay more attention to body language we are unfamiliar with. For example, the "brackets" sign with the fingers, implying that a term is used broadly in a specific context, doesn't exist at all, in italy.

[@helgaioannidis9365]

As a German that lived in Italy for 8 years I agree. Also about the volume people speak it's the same. Americans are far louder than Italians from the northern parts of the country.

[@sunisbest1234]

Hi, Aussie here. Hubby and I spent 7 weeks in Italy a few years ago. Absolutely loved it there. Very, very friendly people, especially when they found out we were from Australia. Everywhere we stayed, we were treated sooo well. We picked up some words of Italian but when words failed, hand gestures won the day. I use a lot of hand gestures normally, when I speak, so was natural for me. Hand gestures certainly is a language on its own in Italia. I'm from Melbourne and we have a very big coffee culture here. Based off of the Italian migrants that moved here after WW11. We are very passionate about our coffee!

[@IndigoDalliance]

Thank you for pointing this out. I fully agree with you. I have always found funny how Americans make a big deal about Italian hand gestures when in fact they hand gesture a lot as well.

[@creconnis2594]

i love how under every "american describe italy" video there are a bunch of italians correcting and explaining stuff properly. That's what makes me love my country sometimes

[@Google.barra.di.ricerca]

Mi sa che quel "Sometimes" sta nel momento nella quale non si devono pagare le tasse

[@riccardopapalia6109]

The dialect are not a problem anymore, the 99% can speak ‘italian’ and I, for example, can understand easily the northern dialect (I’m from Veneto) The hand gestures are used because of the education that the Italians have.

[@missmoon0184]

It is a shame anyway! The dialet do not invalidates the capacity of speaking languages. That ideaology is wrong and bad the tradition that make italians what they are.

[@ryuuki337]

@@missmoon0184 I don’t know about that. I know many people who can speak with dialects but not normal Italian. Dialects sometimes feel like it’s another language

[@bryjacktv]

@@ryuuki337 it depends, sometimes its actually another language

[@BattleshipKotiomkin]

Io abito in veneto e sono toscano, se chiamo l'idraulico ed è abbastanza vecchio ho bisogno del traduttore

[@ryuuki337]

@@BattleshipKotiomkin ahah mi immagino

[@bzimage75]

I disagree with the map showed at 15:30 : not possibile to divide italy in north and south in that way "polentoni" vs "terroni". I live in Lazio for example (Region of Rome) cannot be defined nor north nor south: regions likes Lazio, Abruzzo, Marche. Toscana are usually called "centre". It also depends which parameters you consider: for example Abruzzo region by the economy indicators can be considered "south" (more poor) but by the geographical-cultural point of view is considered centre.

[@HamelinSong]

Yes, it's usually understood that the south starts below Rome, and the north starts with Bologna. I'm a Florentine, I'm neither a polentona nor a terrona.

[@bzimage75]

@@HamelinSong the border depends how you intend the question and It does not exist in reality. The only Borders exist between regions

[@tntmlscrdnv8436]

I'm from Ancona and i have milanese friends that call me terrone so i think that is subjective.....

[@morby2370]

l'abruzzo non è centro, la stessa treccani definisce l'Abruzzo sud italia.

[@marcodonadi4318]

Da me si dice che da sotto l'emilia è sud Italia

[@vpersiana]

Now 99% of the ppl speak Italian (it wasn't like that until the '60 less or more) so we don't really need to talk with our hands anymore lol, is just that we are unable to stop, is just natural for us. Feels like... using punctuation, you can also write without it but it is less incisive 😂

[@emerdigiorgio3594]

@N~Americans gesticulate too,they are just less expressive,that's all!!

[@eduardocofrancesco4373]

@@emerdigiorgio3594 un gesto per noi può avere un significato specifico, il loro è semplice gesticolare come fanno in quasi tutte le parti del mondo, noi a gesti possiamo comunicare perché sono standard per tutti gli italiani, loro no.

[@michelacherchi]

Mmm...yes and no... If I'm really piss of, I'm gonna tell the worst, but in Campidanese dialect of Sardinian, so...the art of arranging, the moving hands thing, it helps today to, and yes, is a way of expressing passionately that we have in the nation, it's become a part of being Italian...and with that gestures, we tell stories if the other know what all of them means

[@caretakerITA]

Talking using hands has an historical reason, linked to the massive transfer of italians out of italy in start of '900 and post WW1. They needed to use it to communicate not knowing well the language when transfering in foreign lands.

[@vpersiana]

@@caretakerITA we talked with our hands before that though, proof is that Italians in Italy still do it.

[@lorenzogozzi2996]

Search the Story of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, they fight Mafia in particular in Sicily, i think you could like their story. I don't if there are many videos about it in English subtitles, but i hope you could find some information about they.

[@emerdigiorgio3594]

@Lorenzo Gozzi: Good things about Sicily are kept quite for convenience...

[@francescop.c.3298]

@@emerdigiorgio3594 Cosa intendi?

[@luke32riva]

@@emerdigiorgio3594 Unfortunately that's what has been "exported" the most, or at least, what left the biggest scar. If they made a video about all the beauties of Italy I think it would be like a week of footage 🤣 Every part of Italy is beautifel, and every part of Italy is ruined by few bad people, that get to be "famous", unfortunately. Also Falcone is well known in the US, there's even a statue of him in the HQ of FBI if I'm not wrong.

[@gaiafanti1885]

@@emerdigiorgio3594 I mean, good things about any region specifically were kept quiet. He was generic, understandably since it's a short video. Us Italians have this unwritten rule of parcondicio (for non Italian: in this situation it means that if you say a bad thing about Sicily you MUST say something equally good, or say something bad about other places. If you don't do you have malicious intent) but I want to remind you that parcondicio culture isn't that rooted in other cultures. If he didn't feel the urge to say something good per parcondicio, it might be because he's not used to do that, not because he has something against Italy.

[@IoDavide1]

The ignorance about sicily shown by the people who talk about italy is a thing that always astonish me

[@emerdigiorgio3594]

@iodavide 1Ma davvero! Che ignoranza e presunzione di credere di sapere e di perpetuare misinformazione!

[@emerdigiorgio3594]

@iodavud 1 Really! So much ignorance! The arrogance to think that they know when they do not know 💩

[@beacamellini987]

Io sono nata e sempre vissuta al nord però tutta la parte che parla del sud e della mafia soprattutto mi ha fatto davvero arrabbiare. Se non guardiamo la parte della morfologia il resto del video è costruito la maggior parte sulla base di stereotipi😔

[@masterjunky863]

@@beacamellini987 Ha detto cose false? No, ha parlato dei clan e della loro locazione, se la realtà non ti piace non significa che è falsa.

[@Randaches]

@@masterjunky863 Ha parlato del sud come se in giro ci fossero tizzi con coppola e fucile appena usciti dal set del padrino pronti a levarti pure le mutande. Non so di dove sei ma io sono nato e cresciuto a Palermo e non mi hanno mai rapinato ne minacciato. Inoltre la mafia è un problema nazionale (anzi internazionale) tangentopoli ti ricordo che è scoppiata a Milano.

[@giorgiobattaglini3654]

it would be interesting to see you make a reaction to a video of "CALCIO STORICO FIORENTINO" this is a game brought by the Roman legionaries all over the world (the one known and conquered by the Romans of course) the game is a mixture of football, rugby, mma. it is worth everything, it is like a war and NEVER the number of starting players is equal to the number of those who will be able to finish. the missing players are in the hospital. and they play for passion ONLY, nobody takes money for it.

[@francescaballarinmcguire6427]

Here a great movie made by a friend of mine about this: Quattro colori by Donal Moloney kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWHIe51-jayjl6M

[@blacksoulgem95]

"Mentre voi vi basavate solo sull'agricoltura locale noi già si assassinava un Giulio Cesare!"

[@giorgiobattaglini3654]

@@francescaballarinmcguire6427 gran, gran bel video..anzi, gran gran bel film.

[@65alef]

@@blacksoulgem95 mentre voi stavate ancora sugli alberi noi andavamo già alle terme

[@LRTOTAL]

@@blacksoulgem95 Fascisti su Marte? 😂😂

[@the_italian_weeb4732]

The Po river doesn't end in Venice, Venice is located in a lagoon north of the mouth of the Po

[@rivotubo]

Venzia

[@tsumugishirogane2300]

@@rivotubo that’s how you say it in italian, venice is english

[@piazzollalucagordon4149]

@@tsumugishirogane2300 It's actually VenEzia, not Venzia

[@tsumugishirogane2300]

@@piazzollalucagordon4149 yea i know im italian myself but I’m pretty sure they tought venezia was how you said it in English too

[@Random_voice_actor]

I mean its pretty closs then

[@giosp1614]

22:37 i'm from Florence and i can explain this lol. Calcio Fiorentino (also known as calcio storico "historic football") is an early form of football (soccer and rugby) that originated during the Middle Ages in Italy. There it became known as “Florentine kick game” or simply calcio; calcio is today the name for association football in the Italian language. The game may have started as a revival of the Roman sport of harpastum. The matches are played each year in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence in the third week of June. A team from each quartiere of the city is represented by 4 teams (Santa Croce that are the blue ones, Santa Maria Novella that are the red ones, Santo Spirito that are the white ones and San Giovanni that are the green ones). After playing each other in two opening games, the two overall winners go into the final on June 24, the feast of San Giovanni, the Patron Saint of Florence. For decades, this violent match has resulted in severe injuries, including death. The modern version of calcio has not changed much from its historical roots, which allow tactics such as head-butting, punching, elbowing, and choking. However, due to often fatal injuries, sucker punches and kicks to the head are currently banned. It is also prohibited for more than one player to attack an opponent. Any violation leads to being expelled from the game.

[@vpersiana]

Calcio fiorentino is like the ancestor of football (yes, soccer for you 😂). A really violent kind of soccer.

[@TheMule71]

And rugby and football (the American one). Also a caccia is closer to a try or a touch-down than a goal in soccer.

[@eliaprosdocimi5880]

English: Fork Italian: Forchetta Mom's Dialetto: Furzina Dad's Dialetto: Piron Me: Bagai

[@gabrielerocchi8819]

Da me bagai vuol dire ragazzi😂

[@eliaprosdocimi5880]

@@gabrielerocchi8819 Di dove sei? (Bagai da me significa "cosa" o "coso" )

[@junichiroyamashita]

@@eliaprosdocimi5880 Bagai in Lombardia

[@maxserraevilchannel8795]

Bagai in Emilia Romagna significa genericamente "coso". Il che può definire sia un oggetto che una persona...

[@Martypazza94]

Me: PERÜ. 😅

[@Stebryar18]

I'm from a village near the Pyramids of Zone and I can assure you that they're all work of Mother Nature. That place is incredible!

[@Martypazza94]

Stavo cercando un commento di qualcuno che fosse della zona! Hello fellow CAMUNO! ✨

[@zaynalsikder9213]

We all love Italy and the Italian people.

[@LezGõr]

don’t call people from the south “terroni”, you’ll really piss them off

[@mrminkiolangelo]

In Italy we speak Italian, so we understand each other, if someone only speaks in a dialect we call him a caveman. Today we just use gestures to reinforce the concepts, give contextual meaning to the words, or to communicate silently

[@wert73907]

" terrone" was and still is in many parts of Italy a heavy insult, "terra" wich is in the word, means dirt or earth, depending on the context, and it's as saying they are farmers instead of merchants, and so that they are poor.

[@eliolaveni7560]

half truths mixed in with complete nonsense.

[@annalang5687]

7:13 I live near there. They are called "earth pyramids". Basically, the ground eroded away beneath the rocks. Since the earth directly underneath the rocks is more compact due to the weight of said rocks, the earth remained in a pyramid-like shape. So it was carved out by erosion.

[@thesixstistari5604]

Regione?

[@annalang5687]

@@thesixstistari5604 Alto Adige, sono vicino a Bolzano (Renon)

[@thesixstistari5604]

@@annalang5687 ahh ecco Beh greets da bz

[@capybara.5371]

Anch'io sono di quelle parti

[@thesixstistari5604]

@@capybara.5371 Sarà un caso ma il tuo nome mi sembra vagamente familiare

[@marieontana1392]

My understanding of the word “Terrone” is referring to “people of the earth” relating to the fact that the Northern Italians are generalising people of the south as persons who farm or work the soil. Great video 👍😊

[@eli_166]

Yes but honestly it must be from the last century, when people hated people of the sud, but not now. I am from north Italy, 22 years old, and almost never heard someone tell it about people of the sud. Obviously I know because of films and if people explained it. But usually is way more "hot funny people". Honestly instead it is becoming a little unpleasant hearing people of the sud speaking of the "cold serious boring people of the nord"

[@gloriasan7793]

Non credo che sia quello il vero significato anche, perché, al Nord ( a parte le grandi città) l'agricoltura è sempre stata uno dei settori principali ( soprattutto qua in Emilia Romagna). Secondo gli studi il termine dovrebbe significare qualcosa riguardo gli abitanti che vivono in terre soggette a terremoti.

[@ikyosamella]

questo termine nacque ai tempi delle repubbliche marinare ma senza connotazioni dispregiative. Distingueva coloro che vivevano sulle coste da chi invece non aveva sbocchi a mare. Pertanto erano terroni i bergamaschi, i valtellinesi, i potentini, ecc. Per esempio, alla meravigliosa Amalfi, in quanto Repubblica marinara, non erano terroni ma lo erano quelli che non affacciavano sul mare, cioè i ricchi latifondisti dell'entroterra.

[@antonellamR2D2]

It's like saying cafoni, but worse

[@MatArw88]

@@gloriasan7793 Il termine Terrone è usato esclusivamente in maniera dispregiativa per indicare che i popoli del Sud lavorano solo la terra ( mentre al Nord cè la parte industriale, quindi la parte ricca ) e che hanno la pelle più scura, quindi hanno il colore della terra che lavorano, infatti ci chiamano anche Africani, Congo ecc.. I terremoti non c'entrano nulla, forse originariamente si, ma ora si intende soprattutto questo.

[@angelica439]

For mafia it's the same here, they still exist but they "evolved" and don't operate as they used to. Different mafia groups did originate in different regions but it's not like they control that territory in the way you would expect and see in movies. The gestures and dialect thing is also not like that anymore. It might have been born that way but now everyone speaks standard italian and many younger people dont speak dialect. Nowadays we just use hand gestures because it's become normal and part of our culture

[@floriana4881]

Kids studied in fancy schools and now they work in Finance 🙂

[@ELisa-qf2mw]

Wow, I'm italian and I didn't even know about most of those lesser-known Unesco treasures mentioned here, thanks for bringing them up, I will definitely search them up one by one and plan future visits! As for dumplings, they are "knudel", in italian canederli, nothing to do with "noodles": bread dumplings that usually come in broth with speck (similar to bacon) and chives, delicious! As for the term "terroni", I don't know where it comes from either, I just want to say that it is much more offensive than the northern counterpart "polentoni", which is usually playful and well-meant. I'm northern, so I've been called a "polentona" a lot, a "terrona" never, but to all of us it clearly sounds much more offensive and seldom playful or well-meant. I mean, a southern friend can rub my head or pinch my cheek, laugh and call me a polentona anytime, but the opposite would sound extremely confusing and embarrassing to them. Fun fact: Milan natives have a specific offensive term, giargiana, for the rest of Italians! Or better say, for those many people who move to Milan or to its huge suburbs for job and study opportunities. As for how much we socially touch each other, that's completely true. The Covid pandemic forbidding us to hug and triple kiss cheeks with each other every time we meet caused no less than a collective trauma, deprivating social interactions of a very important element. As for mafia, yes, unfortunately it's definitely still a thing, not only in the south and not only when it comes to illegal things like drug market, but even when it comes to legal things like trash disposal management, farm labor and public contracts: they have their dirty killer tentacles everywhere. Please, please stop romanticizing and aestheticizing this "shit mountain", like anti-mafia hero Peppino Impastato called it, this is the most and maybe the only truly offensive thing you can do when it comes to italian culture. As for calcio fiorentino, it's definitely not a widespread thing, it's one of those countless local traditions which are extremely important to maybe one town and almost unknown to the rest of Italy!

[@kazenoshinobi]

The video has actually a lot of generalization and sometimes even inaccurate information. I like the fact that it tries to show lesser known things, but they probably didn't do enough research

[@tonyrun5802]

Confirm

[@simonecardaci6923]

Quite true but in general was not that bad

[@hospitallercross1155]

Maybe in Intentions of to Make It Shorter

[@matteosposato9448]

Generalisations are not a problem, actually they are very important so that we can talk about things in broad terms. Can I say that Germans have blonde hair? Yes. Is every German blonde? No. Should I assess the hair color of each one of the 80 million Germans before making a statement? I hope not. That is a few-minutes video exploring the history, geography, demography and other topics of a 60-million people country with a couple thousand years of history. I would expect nothing less than some healthy and helpful generalisations

[@paoloboarino971]

"Toscana has the best wine" Me, a guy from Piemonte: "Hold my Barolo"

[@TheOriginalKuma]

te lo tengo io, ma poi ti ridò il bicchiere vuoto

[@Martypazza94]

Me, as a girl from Brescia: “hold my Franciacorta.”

[@Martypazza94]

(Senza offesa, adoro il vino, da qualsiasi regione provenga!)

[@paoloboarino971]

@@Martypazza94 ottima risposta 😂

[@altairtodescatto]

I live in the brazilian city Garibaldi, where it get its name from Giuseppe Garibaldi mentioned in this video. Italy spread so much over the west, its so cool

[@Dan_Stockner]

11:51 I'm from South Tyrol and dumplings (Knödel) are like dough balls that you can fill with bacon, cheese, spinach...

[@BenoitXVIII]

He doesn't look to be italian, at all, the guy in red. The way he speaks... lol and I m afraid he doesn't know the italian language (a lot of italian words he has mentioned have mistakes..). An "italian" American is very different than a real Italian, for sure 🥳 It would be much more interesting to talk to an American who lives or has lived in Italy.

[@emerdigiorgio3594]

@Ben...I agree!

[@Gigi_Latrottola]

A me sembra hawaiano ...

[@HamelinSong]

Una delle prime cose che ha detto è di essere UN QUARTO italiano e di avere il cognome italiano, quindi ha un po' d'italia nel sangue ma non ha mai detto di "essere italiano"

[@TommyzCrazy]

Thanks, as an half 100% American half 100 % Italian

[@theAkildare]

Calcio Gorentino or Calcio storico is a kind of Soccer and Rugby. One game goes 50 minutes without a break, the only game interruption is when paramedics are needed. One team has 27 players, that try to put the ball in the other team Goal/net. They can use hands, in any way. Every player can anytime attack physically every player from the other team , allowed are hits, kicks and wrestling techniques. Forbidden are kicks against the head and atacks from behinde and only one against one is allowed

[@GaetanoSulDivano]

There are an enormity of "gestures" that we Italians do. And as you may have guessed, each region has its own dialect. Most gestures are universal throughout Italy, so I could say that despite the diversity of language, we always understand each other with gestures.

[@francescogirella6085]

Mafia here is like an Evil-CIA, but if u work for someone nothing happen. the term "terroni" is used to indicate those who live in the south because they come from a fertile land area, because it derives from "terra" which is translated dirt. Fun fact: most Italian youtubers react to videos without ever stopping it and speaking over the voice of the video they react to.

[@dariodaverio7968]

Italy is a thousand little counties in one only country with more than 2000 years of history

[@GabrieleZecchini02]

If Mount Vesuvius erupt, the ashes would cover all of Italy and depending on winds, it could cover most of Europe too. PS: the volcanos erupting are Etna and Stromboli

[@robertharris9218]

Living where I can see Etna, I guarantee you she is very regular :).

[@TheGatto80]

The river Po’ does not end in Venezia 🤦🏻‍♂️. The South is so so much more then mafia. What about all the biker gangs you got in the USA? Yes it’s not called mob or mafia but then what is it? You have it and it’s huge there! The Florentine Football (AKA Historical Football) is the original sport before the modern football was invented.

[@LRTOTAL]

Provincia di Rovigo: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@elenacipollone3799]

@@LRTOTAL LOL I scrolled comments to see if anybody claimed that 😲

[@k4oll4]

*Po

[@FlipjevanTiel]

We have been to Italy and it was great. We've found out there is one exception to the rule, for Italians being vocal and animated. We were in Venezia, talking to a guy who spoke English well and at some point he asked us to calm down a bit. He said: "In Venezia we are very calm and we whisper, because everything here is very old and fragile and we are careful with it.". We thought that was very funny and we didn't believe him at first, but looking around after that encounter, we started believing it. Is there anyone who can confirm it or did he play a little joke on us?

[@Laura-tg8zf]

He was joking 😁

[@luke32riva]

The reason is not true. But it's true that usually in northern Italy people are less "flamboyant" than southern people. The abused stereotype for Italians is based on Southern people (Sicilia, Calabria, Campania) that were the majority of the migration, together with Friuli that's from the Northern Italy.

[@TommyzCrazy]

Italy is very long so the places are very different it’s true in the north like myself people are more “modern and reserved” and what he says was true for the Venice and the north. It’s not true for the south...

[@giovanniquargentan6198]

Bro that guy was definitely joking 😂

[@FlipjevanTiel]

@@giovanniquargentan6198 He said it very convincingly. We fell for it completely. He was a salesman, probably a very successful one then.

[@3Alexius3]

I’m Italian, I wanted just to thank you for this video. You make me love more my contry.❤️

[@unpopular.attitude]

The thing about the brotherhood between Italian people and Spanish or Greek people is real, i'm Italian and when i went to Spain on vacation they treated me and my friends like brothers. We went on a camping site near a concert and we didn't had any tent, and some good Spaniards that we just met on the bus to Almeria made us sleep with them in their tents 😄 They offered us wine and some 🌳 and we watched out the tents when they were on the beach or somewhere else to ensure that all of our bags were safe, not to mention that we were together all the time at the concert. I've never been to Greece but my family has and they told me that their food is delicious and Greeks are very warm and friendly people! Cheers to all my Spaniards and Greeks brothers and sisters out there, Italy loves you ❤

[@JesusOurLordandSavior]

I really like these series, Im learning so much and it feels like Im not learning alone. Keep it up!

[@tommasoastaldi2513]

The mafia is MUCH less present in Italy, mostly because of our Antimafia Commission, but they've moved to other countries like France or Germany who don't have antimafia commissions

[@matteo8607]

Cazzata

[@Bruh-jh7vj]

Cazzata stratosferica

[@tommasoastaldi2513]

Ho detto MOLTO MENO PRESENTE, non scomparsa. Che si siano spostati in altri stati UE però è vero, dovreste informarvi invece di urlarmi contro "CaZzAtA sTrAtOsFeRiCa"

[@gaia7240]

And in the USA

[@tommasoastaldi2513]

@@gaia7240 absolutely

[@corvus1374]

My favorite spot in Rome was the monastery that's decorated with the bones of the former monks.

[@Moribax85]

Oh, the Capuchin Crypt under the Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini church? That's an unusual favourite :)

[@doctorkuroneko8762]

19:20 well, actually dialect for many people may seem a little bit weird but we italians actually understand pretty much all of them, it's kinda instinctive ahaha. Hand gesture are usually used to underline the concepts we are talking about, it's a very teatral exaggeration, especially when people are very focused it comes natural

[@zerocool1981]

Last Mount Vesuvius eruption was in 1944, during the WW2, and it was not so deadly as you can think. Nowadays the volcano activity is one of the most monitored in the world so, in case of a new eruption, all the towns nearby the Vesuvius could be evacuated long time before the activity. In Naples we have a bigger volcano that is named "Campi flegrei" ("burning fields") that is a quiescent supervolcano just as Yellowstone and it takes a wider area (the diameter is about 15km) in the north-west part of the metropolitan area of Naples. Yeah... We like to walk on a razorblade 😅

[@emanuelezanon4262]

13:20 I'm Italian and we have the same impression about eastern people, especially women. They always look very elegant. Also "terrone" comes from "terra" which means "land". The idea is that, sinche the south is more rural, they are "linked to the land", meaning that they depend on agriculture. However it's sometimes offensive, it really depends on the context.

[@fastfreddy74]

"Best wine comes from Toscana" that would be enough to start a civil war, lol

[@MrRobbyvent]

the recent volcanic activity is actually related to mount Etna, not Vesuvio. But pray this not happens from Vesuvio!

[@filippomunari8147]

ancient romans: build a city at the base of a volcano *city get destroyed by the volcano* romans: i’ll fucking do it again

[@einhuhnchen9241]

I remember how in sixth grade we laughed about the Po river because po means a$$ in German

[@Dan_Stockner]

We too

[@francescosaveriochimenti8210]

I'm italian and i would explain what means terroni, the problem is that is a very long story that starts in 1800.

[@francescosaveriochimenti8210]

ah fun fact in rome there's more than 900 churches and in italy there's 100.000

[@ikyosamella]

When you come to Naples you're officially invited to eat casatiello, buffalo mozzarella, ragù, pasta e fagioli, spaghetti with vongole, impepata di cozze, baccalà, salsicce and friarielli, gattó, ó per e ó muss, and sfogliatella, babà, struffoli, pastiera, drinking Falanghina and limoncello wine! (not all at once!) I'll take you to Capri, Procida, Ischia, Sorrento, Vico Equense, Posillipo, the Cappella Sansevero, the Bourbon tunnel, San Gregorio Armeno, the Castel dell'Ovo, the Maschio Angioino, the San Carlo, Capodimonte, the monastery of Santa Chiara, in Pompeii, Herculaneum, Piscina mirabilis and much more... and I'll explain what Italy is, instead of this American who knows nothing.

[@anto427]

10:56 fortunately is Etna that is erupting recently. Etna is a slow going lava vulcano while Vesuvio is en explosive one so when it bangs it bangs loud

[@g7247]

The fact that he's talking about how interesting is how we use our hands to talk while he's gesturing with his hands too, it's funny lol

[@JimGames]

I feel attacked! Lol

[@meadc6754]

Italy is fantastic in so many ways, the food, the friendly people and the mind blowing amount of monuments. I love it so much I try to visit Italy at least twice a year.

[@monicapeduzzi951]

I live near Milano, if you travel 90 km you find Bergamo. Honestly it's quite difficult to understand Bergamo dialect even for a Milanese:) much more interesting it's the fact that you can't understand the dialect of little villages nearby. That's Italy:)

[@stefciko5831]

Milano Bergamo sono 55 km

[@monicapeduzzi951]

@@stefciko5831aggiungi i km da casa mia, abito fuori milano, verso pavia, ed i conti son fatti. Ovvio, non ho misurato anche i cm ma dovremmo esserci:))))

[@stefciko5831]

@@monicapeduzzi951 a ok allora ci sta tutto

[@annarossi4855]

The guy speaking comes directy from the 50s/60s of his relatives, does not even speak correctly and some names wrongly written and spoken. He reports old stereotyped stuff of those years,, he Is stereotyped himself: an american with no link with Italy but just a sort of southern italian origin of his parents' 50s or 60s who has nothing to do with modern long and different " Italies": unwatchable! Almost everything comes ridiculous when described by an american. This just a piece of low theatre.

[@svehyoung]

I think that personally a lot of things makes us nervous or mad like someone speaking bullshit or stuff and soooo~ we get angry like- a lot, we want the person we fight with understand why they are wrong. We want always to get the point across, that's for sure

[@Unsagittario]

just to clarify ... he listed only about 30% of what characterizes Italy ... 😉

[@ilFanEditore]

Italians are also the most self-criticizing people ever. Wrongfully so. We have problems like any other freakkin country in the world (corruption, which is EVERYWHERE, included so-much-praised Germany and northern Europe, bad politics, Euro-caused economic problems), but Italian qualities, achievments, history, economic brands, culture, inventions overcome our weaknesses by the thousands.

[@makreacts8045]

disagreed

[@leuco2048]

No

[@MartinoCiresa]

We do have a history of unstable governments since, well, pretty much ever

[@tonyrun5802]

@@MartinoCiresa si Il che è un peccato perche se ci fossimo stabilizzati presto nella storia, tipo l'inghilterra, per adesso saremmo molto piu influenti

[@fenomeno5187]

Non hanno azzeccato un nome in italiano

[@amberfur5750]

Italian language is a made up literary language based on the so-called 3 crowns (Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio), who created a language starting from the dialect spoken in Florence. When Italy was unified in the 19th century, teachers from Florence went to schools in all Italy and taught the new language. Unfortunately at that time not everyone was at school yet, so the actual moment when everybody had to learn how to communicate with all Italians was during WWI. Radio helped a lot too.

[@elenacipollone3799]

Actually, almost half of the modules which make up the ISS (International Space Station) is made in Italy, too... there isn't just fashion industry.

[@maxgame1257]

The most money is in fact not made by industry but by tourism

[@fedesha9]

calcio fiorentino or calcio storico (historic football/soccer) is a very old sport where there is no rule, they can do everything to obtain the ball. We do that here in Firenze.

[@riccardomallardo7779]

21:40 calcio fiorentino is like some sort of football with some looser rules, you just don't tackle your opponent, you can also punch or kick him, the only rules are that you can't hit your opponents from the back, fights should be 1 vs 1 and if your opponent is on the ground you can't hit him (but you can immobilize him), also the game doesn't stop if the guy with the ball gets tackled, it goes on as long as the ball is on the pitch, just like rugby. If you score a "caccia" (basically a goal) your team gets one point, but if you miss your opponents get half a point, that makes it extra thrilling. You can find full matches here on youtube, check them out, if you like football you might like calcio fiorentino too

[@bibibibi2738]

Seriusly most beautiful contry in the world...really

[@AlexTenThousand]

In short, yes, the Calcio Storico is an ancient medieval sport from 13th century Tuscany, and it's considered the ancestor of rugby AND soccer, and it's played in Florence between 4 teams that represent the 4 historical quartieri of the city of Florence: the blues from Santa Croce, the reds from Santa Maria Novella, the greens from San Giovanni and the whites from Santo Spirito.

[@flamenco0604]

This is the only place where my town (Rome) is put in the Northern area 😂😂 And yes Mafia is still a problem 🙄

[@emerdigiorgio3594]

@ Mari: Yes,but is justifiable,but it is NOT justifiable in a big,rich country...

[@francescaspreafico8928]

i feel like i’m not the online italian person nere who is suffering beccarselo of his pronunciation ahahahaha, great video tho

[@doctorkuroneko8762]

17:27 yes, mafia is still a big thing even tho here at north isn't something we talk much about, but no worries, it's completely safe for tourists they're not targeted

[@rian7083]

i've been in the south,and,just living there,doing your thing won't cause you trouble either,in my case it was like that at least

[@ziovit]

Hi Jim. Greetings from Italy (Sirmione, Garda Lake). It's a paradise here. Bye!

[@bluesman1947]

Look it up you'll be surprised. Calcio fiorentino goes back to the Roman era. It is played in Florence only. And there are Rules.

[@alessandrocasillo2945]

19:01, that one isn't Naples. Trust me, I'm Italian. Naples is located northern than Vesuvius, because the sea is on the left while in this pic, the sea is on Vesuvius's right; that one should be Torre Annunziata.

[@steph5097]

Italians in America are totally different from modern Italians

[@lorenzocaliri]

15:30 actually there is also the middle part (Lazio,Umbria,Marche,Abruzzo,Toscana and Molise(?)) called Centro,all we do is watching North and South making war about who cooks best or whose place is better,even though we know it's ours

[@mranguria8848]

im italian and I swear that I learned more things about Italy in this video than in my life 😂

[@davidnoli6610]

I almost fell off my chair is not Peru ( like the state )is PirÜ, peak of my day :)

[@skystryker53]

I’m from the north of Italy (Piedmont) and down here we always had some kind of relationship with France but also fought against it a lot of times. Still nowadays French people are not very welcome in pretty much the whole country

[@michaelfavaro8827]

Yeah, everything beautiful... but Po river don't finish in Venice... actually it end in the Porto Tolle comune in province of Rovigo, about 40 km south of Venice

[@Patricia7561]

This video is so cringy in so many ways, the guy in red is going on, on stereotypes. Educated italians would never use their hand when talking, and there is no need to comunicate with hand among reagions, we all speak ITALIAN, dahhh, and after we can also speak the regional DIALECT. Mafia is everywhere not only in Italy or in the south of Italy, an is not like it used to be, now they are like business men, like you said is there too. Italians Italians and Americans Italians are two separate things, if we Italians see a stereotypical american Italian on a film, they do things or have manierims that we don't have at all and they look to us kind of embarassing. We are warm and friendly but we hug or kiss on the cheek only friends, not randomly everybody, also because we are very higienic, like in summer you don't want to get close to a sweaty acquantance, not even to a friend.

[@alessandrofruzzetti3659]

mi hai preceduto, lo avrei scritto io XD

[@simonecardaci6923]

Stai esagerando

[@simonecardaci6923]

Usare le mani mentre si parla lo fanno tutti dal contadino al presidente

[@simonecardaci6923]

E in tutte le nazioni

[@simonecardaci6923]

La mafia è principalmente diffusa al sud anche se sta d’ovunque

[@einhuhnchen9241]

I am going to visit the lake Garda next week. I was there 2 years ago and boiiiii it’s great

[@dmytryblyzniuk8211]

Italy is the best country and Italian women are most beautiful in the world 🌎

[@matteomori2410]

10:02 theese tomatoes are called "Pomodori San Marzano", because they come from a little city located on the base of Mount Vesuvius called obviously San Marzano....anyway, this picture is wrong because Napoli is located on the other side of Vesuvius and it is about twenty times bigger than this small city pointed which is called "Castellammare di Stabia".

[@ACRavenger]

Wrong, dolomites mountains are not vulvanical formations. They’ve been created by sealife shells in millions of years

[@ReddyRAD]

when the guy pronounced forchetta as 'forcetta' it killed me

[@forg_tful.]

i think football is not as popular in america as it is in the rest of the world because america is not anywhere near the best in it and it hurt your country's pride or something lmao

[@holyground13.]

the pyramids are close to where I live! There's a whole trail in the mountains until you reach it, it's a very small sight surrounded by a fence and all of that before you. It all happened naturally, the big stones on top just... stayed there while the rest got eroded from rain and small rivers.

[@pgacsc]

Ciao Bello, I lived in Italia for many years. In the North near Venice (Venezia). Terrone is not a cuss word, it’s like saying yankee, calling a red neck a yankee isn’t good, and calling a north Italian a Terrone isn’t good either

[@vpersiana]

Well, it wasn't born as a insult (it comes from terra, soil, because in the south they mainly were farmers), but it became an insult cause it was used to despise them when they migrate to the north to find work and faced a lot of xenophobia. It can be ok to say it in a funny/good way with a southerner close friend, but is highly offensive to use the word otherwise.

[@pgacsc]

@@vpersiana Thanks for the reply. My wife and I miss Italy. Beautiful country, beautiful people.

[@vpersiana]

@@pgacsc yw and thank you, I hope you can come back soon! ❤️

[@lenase7396]

Gary Jenkins Dude if you' re foreigner probably you don't know the matter, THAT word is a derogatory term used to slander us.

[@donnie1623]

10:22 just to specify, you are not looking at Naples here, this view is from another prespective and naples is in the opposite direction, like you were on vesuvius looking at naples and turned to the other side, what you are actually looking here is Capri (the island on the right) and the cities near Naples (like Pompei on the left, Castellammare and Torre del Greco on the coast ecc), the mountains you see here on the left are literally the Amalfi Coastline from the back, and the one you see right in front of you is the Sorrento Coast.

[@hazhoner5727]

Italian aggressive??? From an AMERICAN??!!! LOL

[@lucianaciolfi]

Historical Florentine football, also known by the name of football in livery or calcio in costume, is a sporting discipline that echoes a game that in Latin was called "harpastum". It consists of a team game that is played with a balloon filled with air and is considered by many to be the father of the game of football, even if at least in the fundamentals it is much more reminiscent of rugby (American football). It is played only in Florence. When the players enter the field they wear the uniforms with the colors of the various teams, but during the game, due to the rather tough clashes, the uniforms are torn and the result is that in the end all the participants seem to have returned from a fight with a herd of grizzlies. It's not a sport for people with a frail physique and weak temper (but it's fun to watch). The Italians of the center-north are called "polentoni" because polenta is a typical dish of some areas, while the Italians of the center-south are called "terroni" because they largely come from a peasant culture, which worked the land (terra (land) > terroni), unlike the more industrialized north. The Italians of the two groups do not like to be told "polentoni" or "terroni", so it is better not to use these terms in their presence. The four different types of mafias present in our territory are distinguished from each other by internal rules and modus operandi. But they all have only one purpose: to live violently at the expense of the poor fellows who come within range (the mafia has been, is and will always be a mountain of shit).

[@paxetamor8276]

Quanto mi da fastidio quando sento gli americani parlare in italiano.... a proposito della "festa dei serpenti" in realtà si tratta di una festa dedicata al Santo Patrono di quel paese, tu lo trovi strano? sappi che negli stati uniti fate delle vere feste e saghe dei serpenti, anzi poi li mangiate cucinati in mille modi, riguarda il calcio storico Fiorentino, sappi che è il bis bis bis bis bissssssssnonno del football americano, del soccer, del rugby, della box, gli inglesi hanno fatto da un'unica disciplina sportiva 4 o 5 discipline, mettendo qualche regola. Imparate dalla cultura italiana, forse vi troverete vantaggiati quando vi serve qualche informazione sul resto del mondo, perché alla fine gira tutto intorno a l'Italia.

[@bennyferra9167]

beautiful beautiful beautiful! I'm Italian and I loved this video! it's so well researched and accurate and some things I didn't even know hahaha. you can see that he puts a passion for the videos he makes!

[@saracasarini7762]

Yeah unfortunately mafia is still a problem here in Italy