Northern Italians

[Daniele90]

There is no "German phenotype" either..

[Ades]

Thanks!
Well, about "Germans speaking Italian" I was talking about their phenotype. But the culture is different (you have german looking people with italian culture), you can't deny it but you can't generalize as well. In my region we received Trentinos and Lombardos and few Friulians and Venetians.

Well, surely both the regions of German and North Italian ancestry in the south are great places to live, and have lots of similarities.

[Zivernach]

Well, surely both the regions of German and North Italian ancestry in the south are great places to live, and have lots of similarities.

I'm talking about Blumenau, Vale do Itajaí. In this region of SC was like this, I don't know about the rest of SC.

[Ades]

Lots of Brazilians in this forum lately, huh?

It's like we are dethroning the Balkanites.

[Journeyman26]

Absolutely love Northern Italian culture.. I spent a couple summers in my youth visiting the ancestral town of Borgo val di Taro in Emilia-Romagna. As well as the Medievialis festival just across the border in Tuscany. The people are great, the art is fantastic, and if you love castles, they have a metric butt-ton of them. That being said, I felt like you had to prove yourself a little to the locals before they fully opened up to you, but once you did it was totally worth it and you never meet better people. I feel like the heavy tourism mixed with italo-negative TV such as Jersey Shore, kind of make them a bit unsure how others view them, so they can get cagy. But wouldn't you? haha

[dawson]

Northern Italy has yielded many well-known Italians such as Dante, Galileo, Michelangelo, da Vinchi and others.

*EDIT: These guys were from Tuscany which is central, not northern Italy. My error. The part about northern Italians yielding well known people is still true though. (Luciano Pavarotti, Enzo Ferrari, Giorgio Armani etc.)

Some of the biggest Roman poets came from North Italy, as Virgil and Catullus.

[dawson]

Yes, the ethnicity is Germanic, no doubt, but we have mixes with Slavs (Slovenians) and Southern Italians. But German influence in Northern Italian is awesome, Trento for example received a lot of German Immigrants in XX Century because of the Mines.

only Trento has some German influence, a native from Milan or Turin does NOT have German influence at all..

[Journeyman26]

only Trento has some German influence, a native from Milan or Turin does NOT have German influence at all..

Those large cities like Milan and Turin have their own distinct identities yes. But the dialect of Italian my grandparents speak (from Lunigiana area between Emilia, Tuscany, and Liguria) has German, French, and even Flemish words mixed in. Northern Italy was the proxy warzone of the great powers during the Italian Wars, it is reasonable to assume that a great many soldiers/mercenaries just stayed there.

[dawson]

Those large cities like Milan and Turin have their own distinct identities yes. But the dialect of Italian my grandparents speak (from Lunigiana area between Emilia, Tuscany, and Liguria) has German, French, and even Flemish words mixed in. Northern Italy was the proxy warzone of the great powers during the Italian Wars, it is reasonable to assume that a great many soldiers/mercenaries just stayed there.

Yeah, actually many dialects from North Italy sound like French, not German. In Italian language there are some words of German origin, but that's all.

[Ianus]

Those large cities like Milan and Turin have their own distinct identities yes. But the dialect of Italian my grandparents speak (from Lunigiana area between Emilia, Tuscany, and Liguria) has German, French, and even Flemish words mixed in. Northern Italy was the proxy warzone of the great powers during the Italian Wars, it is reasonable to assume that a great many soldiers/mercenaries just stayed there.

Dialect from Lunigiana is a Gallo Italic dialect, the influence of Germanic languages is very low or null.