"Italians" is an artificial creation, a venitian person has nothing to do with someone from Puglia or Sicily, the same way from Trentino and Liguria...
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i believe that the gesture originates in the south, rome, sicily, naples... it's most widely known due to the immigrants in New York and their big presence in the movie business relating to that, and i believe they are mostly from the southern regions
i'm not ignorant of the differences, i have been in italy for a whole month walking around and saw rome, nettuno, avezzano, popoli, forlimpopoli, rimini, bologna and venice, i know they are all very different, i like the southern people better, and for me bologna was the most unpleasant and fascist shithole in the country... venice seemed extremely industrialised, and very smelly canals
I agree with you in all, but Bologna is known as one of the most communist cities in Itlay, full of commies-radical-chic leftists (but fascist is equal to communist on a more deep layer, so you are still right someway).
it was the private property signs, i got stuck in some kind of little house neighbourhood between the train lines, the bicycle paths were insane and everything was ugly
i guess for me there is no real difference between socialisms but after all, Mussolini was born nearby
oh yeah and the people drove like maniacs
and yeah, there was this computer shop lady i encountered, asking about repairing my phone, she was likek a fucking school principal
absolutely the worst city in italy that i've seen