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I'm obviously not Italian, but from what I have heard many of the Northern Italians believe that the government is spending too much of Italy's collected taxes to try to build up the South. The North says that most of the money is being taken from their industry and being spent in the South where it does not benefit them. On top of this, there are many that say that North and South are too different culturally as well. That really it is as if Italy is two nations and one is supporting the other. Actually, I think most Italians agree that there is quite the cultural divide between North and South.
However, most Southern Italians that I've spoken to (Sicilians) want Italy to remain a unified country. They understand the cultural divide and also the resentment that the North feels for essentially paying for the South to get on its feet. They even understand that Southern Italians are "lazier" and more laid back (a cultural difference). But they hope that eventually Southern Italy will be able to break out of its bad habits (being too laid back, Mafia, etc.) and contribute to Italy as a whole.
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From Italian friends I have spoken to
Northern Italy have a well balanced European culture,not much mixed blood and bourgeois.They seem to be administrators and have good sense of investing
Southern Italy like Palermo-lot of mixed blood, are not very wealthy and 'farmerish'. Lazy
It appears that the N-Italians look down on the Southern ones.
Do not take my word for it,blame the info on the Italians in SA
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Yeah. Though it goes both ways. In the North you had the Veneti, the Etruscans, Celts, Illyrians, and later Germanics and Slavs - both still present round the Northern fringes of Italy. In the South there were Greeks and Carthaginians, and later, Normans and Arabs (Sicily).
However, if we look at the magnitude of these intrusions - the North should be way more mixed than the South.
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I was about to say, from experience North Italy looked more mixed and 'polluted' than south, and I enjoyed South Italy much more than the North one, and saying that North are culturally more advanced than South ones is crap, to me it looked just as if they are more greedy and brainwashed like most of the Europeans at the moment, definitely not more cultural, South on the other hand is priceless and i enjoyed every second there
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Seuthanan summarized it well , in my honest opinion the major hatred the Northerners feel for the Southerners is political , we've been funding the South for decades , at least since the WWII ended if not before , and despite this the South haven't developed yet , far from it the South has been recently surpassed by Spain , Portugal , Greece and even some parts of Turkey , it's unacceptable , we're really fed up with all this spending.
Another thing to underline , during the so called first Republic , lasted from 1946 to early 90s , this situation was still sustainable to an extent , we were growing , the northern firms needed workers and we could rely on southerners instead of importing foreigneres but it weren't no longer when globalization really started and when we adopted the Euro currency , now we can't do svalutation no more , we've got to compete with the whole world , in these conditions one state can't survive with such a burden , sooner or later it will go bankrupt.
I'm mixed myself being born to a southern woman and a norther man , born and raised in the core of Padania but with ties in the South too , there's also a new member , FratelloRocco , clearly from South.
Quite correct , many Northeners look down the Southerners but it's not racial hate , it's more a pity , and it must also been said the reverse , many Southerners look down on us too , think of us as the morons who works too much , as sissies etc while they still retain a sort of machista culture toward women.
If I were forced to draw a comparison I'd say the North is like NorthEastern USA (before the de-industrialization that struk Detroit , Milwaukee , Pitsburgh etc but we're about to enter that point...) while our South is like yours , defeated after a long war (our South was defeated in 1861 and robbered of all its richness by the Piemontese Savoy) and still in trouble , imagine a mulatto Dixie finacially supported for years on by the North...
but it's a gross exageration , yes there's an ethnic difference between Northerners and Southerners but many times it's overestimated , the real problem is political , due to mafia and corruption the money we send down there end almost always in the wrong hands.
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