Culture Shock from Living in ITALY? (Florence)
We interview foreigners on the streets of Florence, Italy to find out what are the biggest culture shocks they've experienced since moving to Italy when it comes to the mentality, the food and lifestyle itself. How are Italian people different from people in their country, why it's complicated to make friends in Florence and how living in Italy has changed them.
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0:00 Intro
0:42 Meet the Foreigners
1:27 Expectations vs Reality of Living in Italy
2:35 Culture Shocks of Living in Italy
4:34 Italy vs Your Country
6:48 Food and Drinking in Italy
8:37 Making Friends in Florence
10:11 Best & Worst About Living in Florence
12:18 What can't you get used to?
13:06 How Has Italy changed you?
15:09 Advice for Foreigners
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Florence, Italy
She’s right about the “Casual American” dress code and wearing PJ’s in public.
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the German girl thought about the trains in her country which are always late!
Finally someone mentions Americans dressing in PJs. As an American myself, it’s crazy to me how people can follow influencers all day and not pick up any dress tips. Wal-Mart is a nightmare 😫
You mean people there go outside in pj and then use the same pj to sleep?
That’s the top thing I love in the US. I come from a country where you dress up, and now I’m so comfortable and relaxed. Nobody would care if I wore underpants on my head and it’s so freeing.
@@aycaaltay9929 I agree 100 %%%%
Unfortunately foreigners tend to always go to the same places when they come to Italy. In reality we must consider that in Italy there are 20 regions, all different from each other. There are different lifestyles, different dialects, different food, different climate etc. For each region. My suggestion is to go beyond the usual destinations, choose an area, a region and visit it calmly away from the most crowded areas, you will not be disappointed.
Yeah, for example, if you go to smaller Italian towns close to the Swiss boarder, such as Luino, life is way more different than life in Milan, Rome or Florence. Its not that great there and you see a lot of poverty.
Such a nice interesting video❤!
Did anyone else notice the difference between Americans and others when they introduce themselves and where they came from? This is something I mentioned in another video thread.
That comes from how citizens of the USA view themselves. We are citizens of the State we reside in And we are citizens of the United States. So when you meet someone new in the US they will tell you the State they live in. If you meet a US citizen abroad they will name their State then US.
@@patraic5241 Bruh what if they say “I’m from Wyoming”… Now, I know about Wyoming and that it’s in the US, but I guarantee my parents have NO IDEA lol
@@patraic5241 I’m sure there are reasons that make sense to fellow Americans but to non-Americans, that’s like a very strange attitude. And I say this as your northern neighbour.
If I meet someone in Canada and they ask where I’m from, I’ll say I’m from Ontario, but not if I’m traveling abroad and a fellow traveler asked me where I’m from. I say I’m from Canada.
As an American.. I think that they name the state they are from is because America is so large and each region is very different.. It is almost like each state is comparable to different countries in Europe.. Someone who is from New Mexico is culturally very different than someone from Tennessee.. Even though they are both Americans there are many differences…
Awesome video
I’m italian and I don’t eat pasta everyday. Maybe once a week
I eat it 5 days a week and the rest pizza and prociuto ,and i don’t regret it.🫠🇮🇹
@@Giovis968 piattezza culinaria praticamente. Abbiamo diecimila piatti ma mangi due cose, ok. Degustibus d’altronde
Wonderful, thank you! It’s so refreshing to hear perspectives from people from different countries and backgrounds. I feel like most of the “culture shock” videos I come across are of Americans who have never left the US and are “shocked” when they experience normal things that happen everywhere else in the world.
Very interesting. I’m an American raised by immigrant Italian parents from Sicily. We’ve always had access to my grandparent’s house there so I spend a lot of time in Sicily visiting relatives and friends since childhood also traveling throughout Italy. I accept and understand both cultures exactly how they are, both the negatives and the positives. It also helps speaking the language and our dialect that I was taught as a child. There are certain things I can relate more with Italy than the US like how one dresses in public, food, that’s all we talk about, and family being together quite often especially at meals. I can get loud and passionate myself about things at times so I can actually relate, maybe it’s in the DNA. I can also understand people’s frustration with the beurocracy in Italy and the further south you go, the worse it gets. If I were to go and live in Sicily, there wouldn’t be any culture shock because I’m very familiar with Sicily, Northern Italy perhaps.
The girl from Texas is still in the “honeymoon” probably (after 2 years, good for her), I’m sorry to say that it will end unfortunately (when and if it happens, I hope she will be still well in Italy).
The girl from Moldova instead maybe is here from too long, it’s possible that Italy (Florence?) are not right for her, so why not change? It’s not easy I know but you’re young and is not like it used to be, young people can go anywhere if want (sure, this if, as I believe and hope, you’ve Italian citizenship also).
The other people seemed extremely evenhanded to me (regard good and/or bad stuff).
A thing (to refer) to the last words by the Italian-Serbian guy: tourism is important of course (as in every country) but much less than people thinks (it worth 6% of GDP, even considering the related industries, it don’t reach 11%), I know the media talk a lot about that (specially after the pandemic years) but believe me, are other the “industries” (ie, the manufacturing) who keep this country still standing.
I wrote a too long comment, sorry (for English also), anyway, the ending sentence by the girl from South Florida is perfect and it should apply to every country: “you have to conform to Italy, is not Italy who have to conform to you”.
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Tourism %GDP in Italy 9% (our is a real country, not an amusement park).
In US is 9.1%
everyone: im from columbia, i’m from serbia,etc. Americans: im from Florida
Are there videos about italy without mandolin music? They remind me of a Simpsons’ episode
Itaians are Fatalists (che sarà, sarà), whereas Americans are (rather foolistly) optimistic. They are also a lot more anxious than foreigners realise. Foreigners should also realise that things generally don’t work (it’s all old), and this is a country in which “urgent” means “within the month.” (I’ve lived and worked here for 35 years.) The food is great, though, and rents are affordable. The countryside is breathtakingly beautiful.
As an Italian it was a little bit weird there no was mandolin at the beginning in the intro. Then . . . there it is. It’s magic.