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I meant geographically. North Italy are a part of the blue banana, and i wouldn't say Friuli is peripherical since you can travel easily to Austria or Slovenia from there, and Venice used to be a major trade center since the renaissanse from that position.
From Calabria you can't go anywhere too easily. This is important in terms of trade and commerce.
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2010 Gross Domestic Product in Italy (2013 data)[63]
NUTS-1 region
mil. €
€ per cap.
% of the EU average
North-Western Italy
501,862
31,200
123
North-Eastern Italy
353,484
30,500
120
Central Italy
334,803
28,100
111
Southern Italy
242,532
17,100
67
Insular Italy
117,860
17,500
69
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Well, venetic and forlan (forlan is the ethnic adjective for friulians, the inhabitants of Friuli...and ancient rhaeto-romanic ethnic group) have a very mittleleuropean mentality, that's for sure (while we northeastern are more...uuh, franco-swiss IMHO)...calabrese are generally lazy, but the main problem are two: collective mentality (i sincerely don't like calabrese people) and organized crime (Ndrangheta...you remember the 2007 murder in a pizzeria in Duisburg?...).
Lombardy is another thing since the region has 10 million people (even if ethnic lombars are only 30% of the population)...almost the entire swedish and portuguese population)...very high standard of living (as here, btw).
Well, we're proud cisalpine gaul-italics, after all...![]()
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California has a similar divide, a costal and interior divide (the wealthy areas are in the coast and the poor areas are in the interior).
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That's another topic.
So, you regard the mentality as crucial for the economic problems of Southern Italy. But I'm still wondering if the mentality has been the reason, or if it has been the result of the economic situation.
This is certainly a very important problem today, and I've also taken it into consideration.
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