Moreover, Ligurian people are seen as very reserved people, who do not like to meet foreigners, and it is quite common to talk of “ accoglienza ligure” (Liguria hospitality) to underline the fact that we are not so kind with tourists. People from Liguria (my region), for example, are considered to be stingy (very stingy). Southerners call northerners polentoni, from polenta, the dish that is common up north, while those from the south are terroni, a term whose origins are not so clear but must have something to do with la terra, the soil.īut each region has it own peculiar stereotypes.
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People from the north generally think that those coming from the south are lazy, loud, very attached to their families, while those from the south see northerners as people who always think about work and money and do not know how to have fun in their lives.
Well, first of all, there’s one big divide: north and south. So, what do the Italians think of other Italians? Let’s see in detail! If you ask an Italian what he or she thinks of people from Milan, or Rome, or Naples, or from Sicily, Veneto, or Piedmont, you will surely get an opinion based on a general, usually shared, idea. Given this approach, we have a lot of stereotypes about Italians coming from other regions – and maybe provinces, towns, neighborhoods). No matter where we come from, even the tiniest village, we think that our place is the best in the country, hands down. Italy has been unified quite recently, in 1861, and campanilismo (local rivalry, it comes from the word campanile, which is the church tower) is still something very strong everywhere in the nation. So don’t tell someone from Liguria that he or she is like someone from Milan or, even worse, avoid mistaking someone who is from Pisa for someone who is from Livorno: even if they live in the same region, they don’t like each other at all – to put it in very gentle terms.
And we don’t like each other that much as well, so we want to make very clear that we are not all the same. We are quite different from one another and our characters vary a lot, depending on where we have been born and raised as well. Well, this might be true on a very general level, but obviously doesn’t apply to each one of us. You may think that we all are very friendly, we like to talk a lot (usually with quite a loud voice and using hand gestures), we have a strong bond with our family, we don’t know how to queue and we all like to take things slow. What do you think when you think of Italians?Īs it always happens with other cultures, if you look at us from afar, you probably see us as one general group.
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