Italy:south west or south east Europe ethnically?

[Hess]

I don't think any reasonable person can deny that Italians have more in common in Iberians than anyone else from the Balkans.

South Slavs, Albanians, Romanians, etc. Have a completely different mindset than the Italians, much more so than the Iberian countries

[Sikeliot]

I feel like Italy can't be grouped in with anyone else and have it be a perfect fit. Like you can group Spain and Portugal, Britain and Ireland, Netherlands and Germany.. but I don't think Italy has a perfect match. Maybe it's best that way, and we shouldn't try to fit them one way or another. I think the fact that this poll question had to be asked tells us that.

But I also tend to go by genetics as well, and genetically, some Italians are close to Iberians.. others not so much.

[Star Valley]

Not including the cultural aspect of Italy (because it frankly does not count in determining this), on a geographic level it is in Southern Europe and seen as a Mediterranean peninsula nation. Half of Italy is slightly pulling towards the east of Europe but not quite. Italy is in the south-west of Europe. It also can be considered central at times because geographically it is placed right below, and follows along the longitude of Germany; Berlin (25 E) and Rome (27 E) are nearly parallel.
Politically (national borders) Italy still is Southern Europe, while most provinces are Western, others are bordering what are considered "Eastern" nations.

European countries are best classified when associated with the ocean they lay because each nation has a distinct deeply-rooted history and relevance; part of this is influentially based off of the ocean the nation occupied.
ex. The Scandanavian North Sea & Norwegian Sea, the British Isles North Sea & Atlantic, the Atlantic nations, the Mediterranean nations, the Black Sea Eastern European nations, and the Baltic Sea nations, etc...

Countries such as Germany, or provinces of Russia would be more debatable in many contexts because it determines where Eastern Europe falls. The Scandinavian peninsula nations are unquestionable, making Italy the more complicated peninsula to place.

[alzo zero]

I'll remind you that northern Italy is much much bigger than just Genoa AND that Veneto has a noticeable Slavic and Balkanic influence. Some of this influence I've heard from Italians that it reaches at least the eastern parts of Lombardy (I can't tell to be honest)

Mi piace quando la gente non sa un cazzo e parla. E parla. Parla ancora...

[alzo zero]

but I don't think Italy has a perfect match.

Un mio amico di Losanna dice che l'unica differenza tra loro e i lombardi è la lingua. Poi per quanto riguarda cultura e mentalità il Nord, fino alla Lombardia inclusa, ha molto in comune anche con la Francia sud-orientale. Culturalmente gran parte del Sud è affine alla Grecia. Il Centro e il Nordest sono le uniche parti davvero "originali" e difficili da accomunare ad altri Paesi in fatto di cultura, nonostante una leggera influenza austro-germanica nel Nordest.

Geneticamente non c'è molto da discutere.

[Ibericus]

I don't think any reasonable person can deny that Italians have more in common in Iberians than anyone else from the Balkans.

Then im not a reasonable person. I think South-Italians have a lot in common with Greeks, who are also Balkanic, last time I checked.

[alzo zero]

Then im not a reasonable person. I think South-Italians have a lot in common with Greeks, who are also Balkanic, last time I checked.

No you aren't. And anyway I don't have anything against the Balkanites but the last time I checked Southern Italy (which has more than a few things in common with Spain, culturally) was 1/3 of Italy.

Now hush will you? Let me enjoy my pennichella with the sound of sweet mandolins in the background...

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What? Is it called "siesta" and not pennichella? And that is a "bandurria" and not a mandolin? What a schoka!

[Peyrol]

Mi piace quando la gente non sa un cazzo e parla. E parla. Parla ancora...

Aahahahahaha invece di tante parole complicate hai usato una frase che avrebbe zittito Travaglio e Santoro ahahahah

[Mordid]

Gli italiani sono persone molto diverse che vanno dal nordico di importanti Armenoid labbro inferiore. Hanno tutti di tipo europeo.

[alzo zero]

Hi there Kosovo we missed you.