why do many people hate Italians and Italy?

[Sebastianus Rex]

One thing is sure, they certainly love Muslims as much as they love the U.S.A.

According with those charts they view everyone favourably...the typical French hypocrisy. Once you talk with them for 5-10 min. it's a all different ball game.

[renaissance12]

Woggish Portuguese dumbness at its best. One digit IQ. Portuguese third world.



Nothing I'm proud of tbh.
It's a sad fact that the French love anything American more than any other European nation.

Very strange.. French love German more than Spain..



Where is Italy in the "list" ?..

[Wanderer]

Very strange.. French love German more than Spain..



Where is Italy in the "list" ?..

64%, according to this.

http://www.pewglobal.org/database/indicator/2/

[Teutone]

I think you guys are pretty liked and popular

at least in my country we like you and your country

[JohnSmith]

I think you guys are pretty liked and popular

at least in my country we like you and your country

The odd thing is Italians are actually a rare breed of people that are dying off. They are an endangered species,LOL. Italy will lose 1/3 of their population within the next 100 years. Germans are also dying off but they have a larger population.

[Mortimer]

Italy has strong culture power through mafia movies and pasta ancient rome and of course because its a liked tourist destination because they are catholic too the vatican is in rome and 90 percent of popes were italians

I think you guys are pretty liked and popular

at least in my country we like you and your country

[Gwydion]

I like many Italians that I've met and traditional Italian culture from Italy.

That said I live in New Jersey so I've met my fair share of Italian-American "Guido" types and I can't say I like many of the qualities they seem to exhibit: flashiness, arrogance, highly emotional, loud, acting like/thinking they are mafioso tough guys but actually are soft, etc. Not all of them have been that way though.

I've heard it said the reason they act that way is that they are mostly Southern Italian and Sicilian derived and that their behavior is reflected in the South back in the homeland, which is why some Northern Italians don't like Southern Italians. Not sure how accurate that is though.

[MinervaItalica]

Italy has strong culture power through mafia movies and pasta ancient rome and of course because its a liked tourist destination because they are catholic too the vatican is in rome and 90 percent of popes were italians

Italy culture is much more than those...

Sorry but mafia movies culture is mostly an American thing not certainly Italian and besides, movies that glorifie mafia like Godfather are just stupid. Mafia is everything besides glorious.

This being said we have some Italian Tv fictions with mafia but are polizieschi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliziotteschi)

[Quasar]

Not true I think many people actually like them, not problem people at all. They are little bit noisy etc for central or north europeans but they have great food and great heart. Only i can imagine those mafias which were in USA in past could make a kind of phobia towards Italians but in general I think people like them. Here in Slovakia people out of all southern Europeans like most Italians and dislike Greeks or Spanish for their laziness and dirtyness of Spanish people.

Yeah, and we dirty Spanish people care a lot what you Slovakian think of us. I had to read twice to write your irrelevant country properly.

[Alessio]

If people do, it's usually because of envy. Although Italy isn't really one homogeneous population genetically, historically and culturally speaking, so one could love Piemonte or (in case of some Northwestern and Central Europeans) South Tyrol/Trentino - like Tuscany - having mixed feelings about Rome - but hate Campania, Naples in specific or just the entire south for (in their eyes) being too noisy, lazy and having a polychronic time system rather than a monochronic one like the 'highly organized' and sophisticated northerners have (Northwestern Europeans and Germans in specific). Italy is basically just a geographic aggregation. Don't forget the Mezzogiorno had different rulers and a seperate culture for more than 1000 years prior to 1861 (some regions more so than other). Also what Edward C. Banfield, a political scientist called ''amoral familism'' and cousin marriages (between 1930/65 higher than 40% in most of Sicily and around 20% in Campania) + the economical gap that still plagues the south, set's the ''Terroni'' apart from the 'developed' polenta eating regions in the north. Did I mention the climate? Don't generalize Italy.