Culture Shock from Living in ITALY? (Florence)

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• 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.

• 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.

• Are there videos about italy without mandolin music? They remind me of a Simpsons' episode

• everyone: im from columbia, i'm from serbia,etc. Americans: im from Florida

• Tourism %GDP in Italy 9% (our is a real country, not an amusement park).
  In US is 9.1%

• BRILLIANT VIDEO, YOUR CHANNEL IS GOING TO EXPLODE

• 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".

• 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.

• 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.

• I'm italian and I don't eat pasta everyday. Maybe once a week

  • ​@@Giovis968 piattezza culinaria praticamente. Abbiamo diecimila piatti ma mangi due cose, ok. Degustibus d'altronde

  • I eat it 5 days a week and the rest pizza and prociuto ,and i don't regret it.🫠🇮🇹