The most hated Italians in your opinion

[Peyrol]

don't mark the people you hate, but the ones who in your opinion are less tolerated by Italian society.

Campanians and Sicilians, that for sure!

[Sikeliot]

Probably Sicilians.

[Peyrol]

The same dispregative word for soouthern italians, "Terrone", was originary referred to the sicilian peasants.

[Bard]

it's a matter of social class: middle-upper class people from Naples aren't that bad, those lower class are often rednecks, overly religious and traditionalist, annoying, not so law abiding, loud and foul-mouthed etc.

I could agree, upper class people are generally well educated and naples produced a lot of thinkers and intellectuals during the centuries, nearly all of them were of noble or at least wealthy origins.

But it's also true that lower class people from all over the peninsula are not that annoying, pick sardinia, sardinia is a poor part of italy, and yet they don't have the shady fame of Neapolitans.
The whole central italy: abruzzo, marche, lazio was a really poor area at the beginning of the century, and yet they always proved to be nice people. They also managed to get along with people from northern italy (colons sent by mussolini), and they never developed a widespread criminality.

[Peyrol]

è un fatto personale non di entità macroregionali,poi in alcune regioni certe cose succedono più che altrove,ma sarebbe proprio bella se fossimo tutti uguali. Abbiamo climi,complessioni,cibo,organizzazione neuronale diverse che risultano in altrettanti caratteri differenziati.

Però in fondo è anche bello così..nonostante le unità e la lingua italiana comune, il resto (abitudini, tradizioni locali, etc) sono rimasti come negli stati preunitari.

[Peyrol]

certo,mica sapere una lingua ti fà diventare più bello o brutto,assennato o scellerato e via discorrendo.

Non ho capito il senso di questo post, chiedo venia.

Cosa intendi?

[Aces High]

As a foreigner living in Italy i think that as a whole people from Naples are regarded as the most hated......as they themselves dont really regard themselves as Italians.
Having said that everyone hates each other and even small villages that are not even two miles apart hate each other....which is very strange for a northern European to understand.

My car has Rome plates and when i ahve been on holiday in the north i have got dents in it from people kicking the doors and even scratches down the side of it......apparently people from Rome are hated in the north as well because of their brash and braggart sort of personality.

I myself get along well with the Romans.....they say there are three cities in the world with the same frenetic vibe...London Roma and New York and i have found this to be true.....complete with indolent lazy police.

The strange thing is that even Italians never really regard themselves as Italians.

[Stars Down To Earth]

Having said that everyone hates each other and even small villages that are not even two miles apart hate each other....which is very strange for a northern European to understand.

Like the Scottish inter-rivalry between the weedgies and us Edinburgh snobs, then. Does that make us honorary Italians?

To be sure, it's not a really serious rivalry at this point, but there's obvious parallels to Italy. Maybe a better comparison would be England/Scotland/Wales/Ireland and our mutual hatreds over time. Also, keep in mind that Italy wasn't an unified nation until very recently (less than 200 years ago). So people are still stuck in their regional identity, have actual ethnic differences, don't really view themselves as "Italians" yet, and simply don't have the same history of national unity that us North Europeans have.

anyways, for your pleasure, here's Glasgow vs. Edinburgh:

[Peyrol]

no,siccome tu hai menzionato la lingua comune io ribattevo che parlare lo stesso idioma non ci fà diventare uguali,per fortuna aggiungo io.

Ovviamente.

[Peyrol]

Like the Scottish inter-rivalry between the weedgies and us Edinburgh snobs, then. Does that make us honorary Italians?

To be sure, it's not a really serious rivalry at this point, but there's obvious parallels to Italy. Maybe a better comparison would be England/Scotland/Wales/Ireland and our mutual hatreds over time. Also, keep in mind that Italy wasn't an unified nation until very recently (less than 200 years ago). So people are still stuck in their regional identity, have actual ethnic differences, don't really view themselves as "Italians" yet, and simply don't have the same history of national unity that us North Europeans have.

anyways, for your pleasure, Glasgow vs. Edinburgh:

The concept thay you esposed is also mentioned in one strofa of our national anthem:

"noi fummo per secoli,
calpesti e derisi,
poichè non siam Popolo,
perchè siamo divisi"


And this is true.

Italy in 1859.




Two years later...