What are Northern Italians exactly?

[MelinusMargos]

I want to hear from you, I have an impression that people has a very blurred idea of our culture. I'd avoid entering in the genetic and phenotypical side of this subject because it usually ends up either with an instant shitstorm or an atlantic façade digression.
So, what do you think of our culture, languages, behaviour, etc...? Feel free to post things that in your opinion can represent our culture. And of course feel free to ask me anything concerning this. I hope this thread turns into something productive either for me and for you foreigners.

[dude]

Fascists.

[Sikeliot]

Central-West Europeans to me, similar to southern French, Swiss, etc. with some minor Germanic influence. I don't consider them really southern European.

You basically are a mixture of Neolithic West Asian + Gaulish/Celtic + Germanic and Italic.

[Peyrol]

Gallo italic people with their own culture, simply.

Funny how people think we are nordic wannabee (-idiot foreigners-) only because of the Northern League (lol, ''north'' in the name don't mean nordic race, mean geographical north of the Peninsula) when in reality we only ask to be recognized as what we are: galloromance people, specifically gallo-italic.

[MelinusMargos]

Fascists.

Really? Do you know that northern italy is perhaps the most leftist part of Italy? Especially Emilia-Romagna(Which is actually Center-North).

[JQP4545]

I think of the Renaissance, art, wine, basically high culture.

[Mehmet]

Austrians who dropped their language and started to speak Latin.
Like Franks did 1600 years ago, creating modern-day France.

[Peyrol]

I think of the Renaissance, art, wine, basically high culture.

Renaissance started in Tuscany which isn't in the North...btw, was spreaded also in northern states as Venetian Republic, Milan and Savoy.

[Peyrol]

Really? Do you know that northern italy is perhaps the most leftist part of Italy? Especially Emilia-Romagna(Which is actually Center-North).

Yup, the ''regione rossa'', very comminist people.

I see this as a very funny thing, Benito was an aemilian...

[MelinusMargos]

Austrians who dropped their language and started to speak Latin.
Like Franks did 1600 years ago, creating modern-day France.

Well, It's the contrary. As far as I know, austrians, at least some of them were romance speakers before being German speakers.