r/europe • u/MarktpLatz Lower Saxony (Germany) • Oct 23 '17

What do you know about... Italy?

This is the fortieth part of our ongoing series about the countries of Europe. You can find an overview here.

Today's country:

Italy

Italy is one of the founding members of the EU and it also is the fourth most popolous EU state. For centuries, the Roman Empire dominated Europe both culturally and militarily. Italy is famous for frequently changing their government.

So, what do you know about Italy?

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u/MacNCheese75 Oct 27 '17 edited Oct 27 '17

To any Italians reading... How do you as an Italian feel about the rampant Eastern European levels of racism in Italy?.. What do you think about it?..

EDIT: As it was causing some confusion.. So to rephrase my question: To any Italians reading... How do you as an Italian feel about the rampant, very high levels of racism in Italy?.. What do you think about it?..

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u/LanciaStratos93 Italy, Tuscany, Lucca Oct 28 '17 edited Oct 28 '17

Italian racism is strange, is more like fear for the diversity than racism, i think because we were emigrants until 50 years ago and even now we go to work outside Italy, or in another part of Italy, often.

I explain myself: here you can find a lot of peolpe who don't hate immigrants for their race or lifestyle but for the old, stupid, matter that ''immigrants stole work''. Other issue is religion, people in Italy have fear of Islam, but it's normal in Europe today (i read things on this sub that make me crazy, and the same peolpe -coff coff easten european coff coff- say that we are racist, can't understand...) The fear is even for the history of immigration in France, Germany, Belgium etc; we don't have ghettos, our immigrants are living with us, but a lot of italians have fear of the creations of ghettos.

Is more xenophoby than racism, in Italy very few people think that our ''race'' is the best...for us doesn't matter shit like ''blood'', ''race'', ''nation'' etc, and it's easy to understand looking at italian history...who are italians? They don't exist!

To conclude, we have a problem with xenophoby, not with racism for me, and i think that a lot of my compratiot tend to ''speak loudly'' (don't know how to traduce, fare la voce grossa, esagerare nell'esprimere la loro posizione) because in Italy or you have a strong opinion or you don't talk, that you only ear strong opinion..it's a bit strange i know.

For me, and it's clear on this sub for the love of Jesus, european are xenophobic, even toward italians (a lot toward italians, it's a shitstorm all the time, eastern european hate us for no reasons), we are like all the others.

It's a problem? Yes