Northern Italians

[Zivernach]

I haven't seen a post about Northern Italians here. It's a very interesting culture, I'm Northern Italian (mostly from Trentino-Alto Ádige), but also Lombardia, Vêneto and Friuli. What do you think about this "mixed" culture?

[SupaThug]

I love it!I have venetian ancestry.

[Trogdor]

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.)

[Zivernach]

Great. LESM, I see that you're Brazilian as well. There is a difference between Italians from São Paulo and Italians from the South, mostly Southern Brazilian Italians are Trentinos! São Paulo received people from Vêneto, Lombardia and Roma. But is a great culture, we still practice in my city, speaking dialects, etc. It's an interesting thing because Italy is a recent state, and the Northern region contrast a lot with the Southern Region.

[Zivernach]

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

Yes, indeed. But you have very different cultures, as dialects for example, because Italy was very separated before the Italian Empire "started".

[SupaThug]

Great. LESM, I see that you're Brazilian as well. There is a difference between Italians from São Paulo and Italians from the South, mostly Southern Brazilian Italians are Trentinos! São Paulo received people from Vêneto, Lombardia and Roma. But is a great culture, we still practice in my city, speaking dialects, etc. It's an interesting thing because Italy is a recent state, and the Northern region contrast a lot with the Southern Region.

Yeah,São Paulo has greater diversity when it comes to italians...most northern italians went to rural ares of São Paulo while the capital has always been dominated by Southern Italians,traditional italian neighborhoods in São Paulo like Mooca are full of Campanians,Calabrians and some Sicilians.

[Zivernach]

Yeah,São Paulo has greater diversity when it comes to italians...most northern italians went to rural ares of São Paulo while the capital has always been dominated by Southern Italians,traditional italian neighborhoods in São Paulo like Mooca are full of Campanians,Calabrians and some Sicilians.

Yes. Here we received more Trentinos and Lombardos. They went through this area (Blumenau, I think you know it, in 1900 it was all Blumenau, but then they separated and created new cities by cultures). Not a thing that I'm so proud of, but they killed many Native-Americans (because before it, there was nothing, only forests and native-americans).

[Trogdor]

Yes, indeed. But you have very different cultures, as dialects for example, because Italy was very separated before the Italian Empire "started".

Yes I know that Italy has had many differing regions, cultures and dialects. I think here in America a lot of people from Northern Italy live in places like California. There is a documentary about it called "Finding the Mother Lode" which discusses the experiences of northern Italians from places like Liguria who immigrated to the U.S.

[alfieb]

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

Tuscans are not from Northern Italy.

[Arrows]

Not much to think about. They're basically just Germans who speak Italian