The most hated Italians in your opinion

[Aces High]

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

Well i think its more entrenched than back in the UK because at the end of the day everyone in Scotland rallies round the flag and considers themselves Scottish....not so in Italy.

You can travel from one small village to another not two miles apart and they speak another language....not another dialect but another language.....and they despise each other.

I have friends in Florence and they hate people from Siena and Pisa and the Pisans in turn hate people from Livorno who hate Fascist Romans and Viterbese....who hate the cocari (people from southern lazio) who in turn hate Napolitani....who hate the Sicilians........who hate evryone from the north as a knee jerk reaction because they know northerners hate them.

I have friends in Pavia who hate the Milanese and lets not start about the hate between Milano and Roma which goes back to the Roman empire.....and it goes on.

Then i go to Sardegna where my wifes mother is from and they regard themselves as more Greek than Roman or if you got to Alghero they hate the other Sardinians as they regard themselves as Catalans and speak an ancient Catalan dialect.

Italy is one fucked up place.........but i love it all the same.

[Graham]

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:

East Coast versus West Coast, Weedgies versus teuchters, protestant versus Catholic, Unionist versus separatist One big happy family. We have fighting with the neighbouring villages and other estates. Had my windows smashed in by them bastards too. It can get violent.

[Bard]

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.

Personally, I do not have anything against the romans, and I have never heard a northerner complaining about them. They may not be our favourite italians, but they do not generate a particular hate, at least here.

[Anthropologique]

People who hail from the Naples region, for certain. I've heard some Italians refer to them as professional thieves.

[Bard]

People who hail from the Naples region, for certain. I've heard some Italians refer to them as professional thieves.

The professional thieves are the gypsies here in Italy.
In naples the biggest danger is being: mugged, robbed and scammed. I would never venture there myself without a native guide.

[Aces High]

Personally, I do not have anything against the romans, and I have never heard a northerner complaining about them. They may not be our favourite italians, but they do not generate a particular hate, at least here.

Well i was talking about Bolzano.......when my wife spoke in Italian they answered in German...

[Bard]

Well i was talking about Bolzano.......when my wife spoke in Italian they answered in German...

German speaking people are actually a minority in Bolzano, while they are (generally) the majority in the rest of sud-tirol. The problem with them: they are very proud and if possible they avoid speaking italian.
Italians working in Bolzano are required to be bi-lingual or they will have a hard time.

Back on topic, the hate, some people from Bolzano (not all of them I hope) hate italians, no matter which part of Italy they are from.

[Aces High]

Back on topic, the hate, some people from Bolzano (not all of them I hope) hate italians, no matter which part of Italy they are from.

I got talking to some guys from Bolzano and they regarded people from Trentino as sub saharan africans......wtf. ?

[Piparskeggr]

I suspect Campania will win this one lol

I suspect you are right, but my maternal grandmother's folk were from Campania, and she would spit when she spoke of the Calabrese, so I voted in her memory.

But then again, she would also say "f'Nabla" (go to Naples) as a deadly insult.

[Bard]

I got talking to some guys from Bolzano and they regarded people from Trentino as sub saharan africans......wtf. ?

I believe you. People from Trentino generally stick to italians (culture, language, genetics) and therefore gain their fair share of hate.
Even people from switzerland (canton ticino) feel closer to italians than people from sud-tirol.