ITALIAN REACTS to "Weird Things Italians Do"
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We complain way to much about Italy, *but* if a foreigner complains about Italy we feel deeple outraged and angered 😂
There’s also another side of complaining: yes, we complain a lot about our country, but if anyone outside Italy dares to say something bad about it, we GO NUTS 😂
Infatti non ci sono presupposti per lamentarci, ma bisogna sapere di cosa ci si lamenta di certo dei nostri politici, certo gli altri non hanno dei campioni di efficienza ed onestà, ma diciamo che almeno qualche volta lavorano per chi li ha (purtroppo) eletti, il disertori della vanga i politici, qui da noi pensano solo ed esclusivamente alla loro situazione economico "lavorativa" quindi credo sia lecito e necessario lamentarsi almeno di questi soggetti. Inoltre siamo bravi ad esaltare ciò che hanno gli altri, ed ignorare ciò che di esclusivo e imponente abbiamo ereditato noi, un esempio? Il patrimonio Archeologico, Architettonico e Artistico, tanto da essere stati in centinaia di anni fino a pochi decenni fa, letteralmente SACCHEGGIATI dagli altri, insomma ci frega l'ignoranza culturale interna, e non solo, non valorizziamo e tuteliamo ciò che possediamo, ma soprattutto ci frega l'evidente provincialismo e gli sforzi spesso o volentieri di apparire internazionali a tutti i costi, anche quando non ce ne è alcun bisogno, basta vedere come facciamo gli splendidi con gli altri, quando non ce lo possiamo permettere. Ma tornando all'ignoranza in merito alla nostra cultura, voglio citare un episodio come esempio. Ero a Londra per motivi di lavoro, in un momento di pausa con dei colleghi, giravamo nel centro storico turistico della Capitale Inglese, quando ci imbattemmo in una famiglia Italiana, precisamente di Torino, intenta a lasciare il British Museum e nel mentre con i miei colleghi, poco distanti da questi discutevamo, il Marito ci fece la fatidica domanda: siete Italiani? Ovviamente risposi di si, e li iniziò uno scambio di parole e analisi sulla Città che ci vedeva ospiti, quando l'elegante signora, iniziò con il descrivere ciò che aveva ammirato di ineguagliabile (questa la definizione) all'interno nel Museo appena visitato, ma si soffermò in particolare su dei reperti archeologici, (aggiungo io Etruschi), per i quali si sciolse in un commento da estasi, definendoli ineguagliabili, incredibili e unici, (su questo non ci sono dubbi) ma ciò che mi lasciò perplesso o meglio inorridito per quello che aggiunse nel chiudere il suo commento in merito agli oggetti, " ... che in Italia purtroppo non abbiamo e non possiamo trovare", cosa? Ci guardammo tra colleghi, e alzammo lo sguardo verso la facciata proprio del British Museum, dove penzolavano due giganteschi striscioni che annunciavano proprio nel particolare la presenza di questi reperti, quindi lo feci notare alla gentil Donna, che arrossì, e aggiunsi, che proprio quei reperti, Lei li aveva potuti ammirare, proprio perché erano esposti nel British temporaneamente, proprio perché prestati dall'Italia, facendo presente inoltre alla signora, che probabilmente gli stessi "pezzi" forse erano esposti a pochi Km da casa sua, o peggio a poche centinaia di metri, in un museo Italiano o magari nella sua stessa Città, Torino, in cui lei, mai avrebbe messo piede, certo non mi sono fatto un'amica in quella circostanza, ma pazienza. Quindi gli internazionali decidono che fa più effetto raccontare che siamo stati in visita a Louvre, magari pagando 15/17 euro a persona, o al British di Londra , o al Moma di New York, entrata 25$ (dove su tutto ciò che abbiamo visitato sappiamo dire soltanto, ma cos'è ?) piuttosto che visitare un museo Italiano importantissimo, con reperti, o opere d'arte veramente uniche ed ineguagliabili, un museo collocato da secoli, a pochi Km da casa propria, e lo stesso accade nella cucina.
Yes - a very southern european approach!
Italian breakfast, rule #1: *No stench of cooked/fried food early in the morning inside the house!*
Everything else (milk, coffee, tea, juices, biscuits, cakes, cereals, yogurt, bread, butter, jam, Nutella and even ham and cheese) is allowed.🙂
very true! I had a typical english breakfast once in Dublin and I got sick for the whole day! no thanks! 😂
Ahah that's a great point, I forgot about it!
Absolutely,Eating all that fried stuff in the morning makes me sick.
Except if you're a Southern mother or grandma on a Sunday morning.
We are truly a strange people, we have habits that amaze tourists, perhaps because we are a young people, our culture is only 2000 years old 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Grazie, tra l'altro quello che descrivi accomuna più o meno tutta l'Italia.
Love this!
I want to recommend a commercial biscuit (Pavesi company), but it's really good. "Gocciole Caramel" with chocolate and crunchy caramel grains. Too good. ❤
Not only italians talk with their hands. So many peoples do, including americans. Maybe we have some special gestures (like "are you scared", "whattdyawant", "let's eat something"), but it's getting lesser and lesser common nowadays.
I wonder if Italians, as she said in the video, use their whole body as opposed as only their hands
a ridiculous stereotype that many repeat parrotingly 😂
Including Mary Jane
I never understood this idea that italians use hands so much while others don't. Many non Italians gesticulate too. Maybe we have specific signs which others don't have but we aren't the only ones using hands
😂 appena rientrato in Italia dopo 5 anni in Charlotte, 😂😂 ho perso il conto delle volte che ho dovuto parlare delle stesse cose con i colleghi americani 😂😂😂
very high quality videos you're making.
greetings from Slovakia
thank you stefan!
😂😂😂 i really loved watching this
Pensa te se dobbiamo giustificarci con gli americani, noti per i loro problemi in materia, di quello che mangiamo a colazione. 😅
Hi Mary Jane - It was a rough few years for the national soccer team of Italy but they will be back to fine form in no time. Losing at home to North Macedonia is rough ..
Bidet dirty secret 🤫: as an Italian every time I go somewhere without the bidet I manage to have a small bottle of water in the bathroom, so I can still have a bidet while sitting on the toilet. Usually I remove the label from the bottle so I know what I used it for. Ahhaha (bidet like a pro 😎)
I need to learn from you! I can't do it without soap and towel 😅
@@WhatashameMaryJane It's a question of technique, after a month in an English oil field in the middle of the Libyan desert you also learn to shower with two bottles of water 😁
@@WhatashameMaryJane 😂😂 you will feel clean even without soap. Guaranteed ✅ since you are from the north of Italy in this case I have to say: “piuttosto che niente, meglio piuttosto”.
I do the same. I also carry an extra cap with a 2-3mm hole, when I need to use the bottle I swap the caps and manage much better the water flow. make sure the two caps are identical.
@@briganteleo I love how incredibly talented we are 😂😂😂
as italian myself, I think the bidet situation is sometimes an obsession for some people! 😄
when you need to do the number 2 and you're not at home you don't always have access to a bidet.
and even if you have access, would you do it? let's say you're at friends' house: of course you don't use their, right? it's such a personal item!
so what can you do? you use the toilet paper very well and it's fine then when you come home you can have as many bidet as you want! 😂
I hold it if possible, if it's not possible I plan in advance and bring wet wipes.
Of course it no huge deal if you go about your day without a squeaky clean butt, but if you live in a country where you have no access to a bidet in your everyday life, that's a problem 😅
Well if you're not at home and have to do a no.2 you don't really need a bidet, TP or wet wipes are just fine .
If you get home then use your bidet !
Vivo nel Regno Unito da quasi 8 anni, alla menzione del bidet mi è scesa una lacrimuccia :')
I'm Italian-American and still have some family left who live in Italy. I'll never forget one time when they came to visit us, and I showed them the miracle of drive-thru banking. They (my Italian relatives) were completely awestruck! Never had they seen anything like that in Italy. Another big shocker was when we all went to Las Vegas and they saw that you could actually get married at a drive-thru chapel! They were like, "Ma, voi americani fate quasi tutto nelle vostre macchine?!?"
You Italians are too similar to us Argentineans in that aspect lol
ummmmmmmm........... Where do you think you Argentinians got it, Alessandro???????? Hmmmmmmmmmm? :D :D :D
@@RDrakeSans1 because around 60% of us have Italian ancestry
@@Alessandro_Berlusc EXACTLY!!!!!! :D :D :D
@RDrakeSans1 French Canadians vs People from France that's a great comparison. The way humans migrated back then is very interesting imagine Africans leaving Africa for South America by boat fishermen or something
@@RDrakeSans1don't forget about Asians from the East migration to Canada that's sometimes that has been hidden but Native Americans come from Mongolia and the way they migrated is a mystery probably on horseback but they were in Canada in the 1800s I know this
Not all over America, if you eat in Argentina, they still scan the meal similar to Italian
That's because they're half Italian maybe? 😂
@@WhatashameMaryJaneNaa, some Argentines are three parts Italian and one part mixed peoples, but many others are German, French, Spanish and other European peoples and some other natives organized in AIDA (Asociación Indígena de Argentina).
But everyone eats spaghetti, pizza and milanesas but they also eat parrillas, asado and empanadas which are Argentine dishes that are only influenced by European cuisines but are indigenous
Well not only in the whole continent of America but can I say th3 whole world it’s a one plate meal.? Bidet is a must in the Philippines absolutely we even use an improvise bidet since we don’t use bowl type .
I grew up with bidet. When I was stationed in Italy… I wasn’t able using the ones for doing business while standing… scary 😂
That's so German of you!
@@WhatashameMaryJane Yeah, as much as I try to fight it, I can't get out of my skin 😂.
@@Qwerty8 Why would you fight it, it’s great 🙂
@@WhatashameMaryJane I may have a head that works in German, but my heart beats in Italian.
It is very interersting to see and understand the " culture of breakfast" in other countries. In Germany we eat bread or buns with butter or jam,meat...and than fruits and joghurt.
I want to live in italy just to hear the accent
Calcio = soccer/football
Why? Who knows!
Reminder: don’t forget to check your calcium intake-essential for muscle, nerve, and of course, bone health.
Kick = Calcio
@@fosterbuster2840 Ah
concordo in tutto :)
W the bidet😂😂
3:03, i must say i am a litle bit shoked.I lived in Italy for couple of years during studies, in a small one beadroom apartment. It had a bidet. I neer used it :). I tought i is just for a woman genitalies. I didnot know it is for poop 😁. And i never disqused about "bathroom stuf" culture in Italy with my Italian friends :).
you call it second sport, i call it "filling the silence" (and i'm the first one who does that! well, sometimes)
bwahahahahaha more than 15 years abroad and I still try to plan my poops according with my showers
the cookies vs biscuits thing is not a brit vs american english one... just image google them to know what I mean.
Why have you stopped posting videos?
To say the truth, it's rare that people at restaurant eat antipasto, primo and secondo.
Ci scommettevo, quasi tutti commenti Italiani. E' vero, non saremmo tanto patriottici, ma sotto sotto... forse lo siamo più di quanto noi stessi ammetteremmo
" Mi scusi Presidente
Ma forse noi italiani
Per gli altri siamo solo
Spaghetti e mandolini
Allora qui mi incazzo
Son fiero e me ne vanto
Gli sbatto sulla faccia
Cos'è il Rinascimento"
È come la mamma col figlio: solo lei può criticarlo, se un estraneo glielo critica diventa una leonessa 😂😂
He Jane were are you! You're under a rock...? ;-)
Researching and preparing new, much better videos!
@@WhatashameMaryJane haha that's the spirit! You can't let us down hihi
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Im italian, and for many years I went to toilet for the "number 2" in morning when I was already at job, and obviously at job you don't have a bidet, I'm sure I wasn't the only italian in italy making that. So I don't understand the big problem. Now I live in thailand and here same in other many Asian country there is a small water pipe near toilet even in public toilet and this is very useful, so asia style win 10-0 on the very not smart bidet.
exactly! when you need to do the number 2 and you're not at home you don't always have access to the bidet. and even if you have access, would you do it? let's say you're at friend's house: of course you don't use theirs, right? it's such a personal item!
so what can you do? you use the toilet paper very well and it's fine then when you come home you can have as many bidet as you want! 😂
@@andreabruson5558 Well, I can also skip a meal if I'm very busy and I don't have time. That does not mean that I can go all day long without ANY meal. Or more days without eating. And I don't shower everyday: it's silly, a waste of water, time and electricity (or gas, if your water is heated with gas); washing your more exposed, dirty and smelly parts (face, hands, armpits, feet, butt and genitals) everyday, or two times a day, and showering once a week is more than enough to be clean. That's why you have to have a place to wash specifically your intimate parts.
@@Laurelin70 no one says it's ok to not wash your parts for days, actually. I mean that might happen you really need to do the big thing and not having the chance to use a bidet and I think it's worse to keep it than not using a bidet. 😃
When are you coming to visit North UK?
Who knows! Would love to come, it's a time issue really. Too many other countries higher on the list
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Question about the bidet, how about in public buildings like an office or school? How do italians do the 'business'?
Italians rarely do it in public bathrooms. One usually holds it until is at home, based on my experience
@@WhatashameMaryJane haha legend
In Italy they sell many types of wet wipes for this purpose, I use a type called "toilet paper" like the one in the rolls, it works very well and is biodegradable. But that's not the same as making a bidet
I take with me a small bottle of water to create a do it yourself bidet 🫣😶🌫️
Complaining: French, Germans and Portuguese are the same!
Your eyes are bewitching. Like the sea by the Bahamas.
I live in Italian-speaking Switzerland and many habits are similar, but the bidet is not used here either. I think if a person uses a bidet, but showers every day, washing the b-side can become a full time thing. Seems excessive to me washing it several times a day, and for this reason I can live easily without the bidet. L'ho scritta in inglese per far capire a tutti..
It's not several times a day, it's when you poop only. How many times a day do you go number two??? If it's more than once per day on average then the problem is not hygiene, but bowel issues. 😅
@@cxar71 I take a shower everyday.
@@mbell7498 Yes, that's no rocket science… but if you just took a shower, and have to go number two? You'll wait for 24 hours with a bum hole on fire. 🔥 🤭
Yep @cxar71 got my point. I have nothing to add honestly 😄
I am Italian and I consider the bidet the highest form of civilization. I have often lived outside Italy. When I'm abroad I adapt, but as soon as I find a bidet I feel at home.
Italians love their own stereotypes. Or they like being gaslit by Anglo/Germanic/Nordic people as well. It could be why Italy keeps a major G7 economy.
the Italians civilized the northern European barbarian world and then barbarized themselves. But they always remain the best
The Italians have not been globalized if that is what you mean it still amazes me ... Italians refuse to acknowledge the world. But, Italy somehow still manages and is a G7 economy. Young Italians are so brainwashed they do not know what to think. @@fosterbuster2840
Italy is one of least globalized parts of the West it is fascinating. @@fosterbuster2840
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What I do not understand is why it is not possible to have a coffee with milk in it (like cappuccino, cafe latte etc), after 10am!
It's possible, but it's weird for us. As said in the video, we have cappuccino and caffelatte for breakfast, not later during the day. Here in the US I have customers who drink cappuccino or italian hot chocolate eating pasta al forno or pappardelle ai funghi (it's insane for us).
It's possibile. Everywhere in italy. You only have to pay.
My brother-in-law is guilty of the heinous crime of drinking a caffè latte after meals. He should be stripped of his Italian citizenship immediately! But alas, we are a tolerant people. 😂
To be honest I've ordered cappuccino at any time of the day in Italy and I never received any comment or looks. I heard about this rule on TH-cam but never seen it in Italy. Sure cappuccino is usually seen as a breakfast drink.
You can have a cappuccino even after 10.00 am, many Italians do it.
One thing that Italians don't do is order it for lunch or dinner especially at the restaurant, but no one is stopping you from doing it.
Here in Florence, for example, there is a famous local restaurant with a sign reading:
*_"Cappuccino €5,000 Cappuccino with steak €10,000"_* 🤣🤣🤣
mulino bianco sucks, it's full of chems. in italy we have so many good artigianal biscuit producers. Cmon
When are you going to speak in spanish? I remember you told us you studied spanish.... Saludos María!
Did I? I would love to just spend a month in a Spanish speaking country, I would totally acquire the language without even need of studying it!
@@WhatashameMaryJane yes i believe you told us it was during the university , i remember you said german and spanish to. O yes! is very similar to Italian but not exactly the same, verbal tenses are the most difficult, happens the same with my self, i studied italian when i was a pivello (but i abandoned after 2 years) and although i understand it is difficult to elaborate sentences in a correct form. The good news is that spansish is the second most widely spoken language. Mandi!
María this is a video about italians still living in Argentina. Some of them talk about the polenta. Ciao!! th-cam.com/video/b9Igij-iwzA/w-d-xo.html
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Spaniards and Romanians talk with their hands too. It's a just Latin thing...
No, a ridiculous stereotype that many repeat parrotingly
Many people do it even from north Europe. Some countries may do it more but it doesn't mean others don't do it
we love italy, we hate nationalism. This is the difference.
We deep down know that being "too much" nationalist, is a bad thing. It just makes you blind on the long run and unable to be see things as they are, and not as someone else wants you too see them (or yourself wants to, sometimes).
You basically loose the ability of being critical neutral and be able to understand things when they are happening (and trust me, it's a real problem, also in italy).
Every region in italy breakfast is diffrent,what about your region mary
Really? I've never heard of that
@@WhatashameMaryJane first pizza arrived in friuli in 1990 ,people didn't know what yogurt was ,frico brovade e gubana yes,I know a lot about friuli my wife surname is Colussi pure friulian ,not some alavic surname
De dutch are the same always complaining. I think complaining is a Dutch inventions
No, it is typical of people who go to sea. We in Italy have the Genoese. There is a term coined specifically "mugugnare". In Genoa there was a differentiated rate to pay workers "without mugugno" they paid more, with "mugugno" the pay was reduced
The French as well
I'm not 'Talian and neither is Mary. How are things??
Mary is slovenian kook at her surname
@@user-zx7kn9gu5s Mary is italian, from Friuli.
@@ilmelangolo in friuli is a big comunity di slovenian origin,you can spot by they slavic surname or like the lokals call them[slavs]
@@user-zx7kn9gu5s You said "Mary is slovenian". She is not.
@@ilmelangolo i said she got a slovenian surname and because she comes from an area of slavic minority, she might be .
l problema è che si lamentano ma non fanno nulla di qualunque cosa sia.... hanno sempre 'accettatato' e sono fondamentalmente un pubblico compiacente. Almeno finalmente... gli agricoltori stanno recuperando terreno con il resto d'Europa contro le manipolazioni del wef e l'EU.
Che c'entra?
@@konyvnyelv. Tutto.
Italy created fascism. That's why I complain so much about this country. I was born in italy, but I consider myself mostly european. Italy is the country of culture and beauty, but there's so much evil here.
Like every other country in the world. Dictators, kings, warlords, coloniasm, slavery, racism...the evil is in the human kind, it's not a geographical issue.
@@user-sw1hl6hu4j fascism is made in italy, like parmigiano-reggiano.
Invece di lamentarti tanto sarebbe meglio che studiassi un po' di più. L'autoritarismo nel 1920 era la norma nella grandissima parte del mondo. Il fascismo non è poi questa grossa invenzione. É che siete proprio ossessionati... E sì, il male non c'è solo in Italia, è dappertutto, ma tu ovviamente preferiresti vivere in Iran o in Afghanistan piuttosto che nella cattivissima penisola italica, vero?
É ora di crescere! Meno papero frignone e più papero a sgobbare sui libri!
Really what about US , the crown controlled countries like AUS, CA, NZ ,UK lots of evil real evil there when only the
degenerate elites prosper the rest struggle to survive ?
Pure tu
Ciao Mary non pubblichi più video?
Ciao Andrea, mi sono presa una pausa dalle pubblicazioni su TH-cam, ho invece incrementato quelle su Patreon
@@WhatashameMaryJane Grazie per la risposta Mary!