Відео

Living in France I understand your culture shocks!

The more you go toward the South of Italy the later the dinner time is, and the opposite the more you go toward the North of Italy. We can stand to have dinner so late because we use to have a snack around five o’clock, usually a sweet snack and we call it merenda. To give children a merenda is considered mandatory!

The staring thing is quite comm5here in Ecuador too, so I laughed when you said ,turn around....I can't remember how many times I've tried to stare them down on a bus, or just anywhere in public, and they just shamelessly keep on staring. Dinner here too is very much the same, except in the villags where they eat as early as 6PM. In Africa, too, we usually don't have dinner that early.😅 Dryers aren't common in cities where there is a distinct rain season

I currently live in Ecuador and my husband and I are looking at Italy (Trieste) for our next move. The anti-screen thing here is huge too. It's a real pain when you have cats who will jump out the window if you leave it wide open! At least now, we have a heads up! 😀

Trying to apply logic to less developed societies is usually a fallacy, and this comes from somone with a latin family. Freedome of thought is not really a thing.

Americans stare too. you just don't notice it.

Don’t forget that Italy is a huge bureaucratic society: hundreds of thousands of employees would lose their jobs” cushy “ jobs , old fashioned here but charming at the same time.

I find it quiet ignorant to move to a country , like Italy and not know that August is their collective vacation month and everything closes!

I'm Italian and can attest to the fact that Italian bureaucracies are a NIGHTMARE!!! So slow and inefficient. What a freaking clown show. Also, totally on the money about the various weird "health' things Did they warn you about drinking ice-cold water after exercising and/or sweating? It can kill you! 😂 Excellent video, accurate and not offensive at all. Good job, brava!!!

I'm a Brit living in northern Italy for many many years. Never experienced "staring"..... However, I'm really happy about the system of taking a number in most shops now as there is no danger of anyone "skipping the queue". I really have to say that really annoyed me. I remember being in a bank many years ago and the client who should have been behind me was actually standing right next to me....!!!! I did put him in his place as I found it very disrespectful. Even banks/pharmacies have had to put lines on the floor to separate one customer from the next...😮

Wet hair: probably because you are used to it, because the inside temperature is always constant: you can stay in t-shirt all year around. When I go to Uk I get wet and don't sick, in Italy absolutely yes. Air conditioning, you grow up with it, so your body is unsanely used to it, but we italian don't. Maybe you have also a better diffusion system, I don't know, but I guess the simple reason is that we are nit used to it. When in USA I have your same reaction about it. but for the opposite reason. Lunch time is changing, but since our lunch is bigger than yours, we got hungry later, while you have a small lunch and bigger dinner. Burocracy is horrible in Italy and we all agree on that. We cannot stay in line!

Hi what program are you doing? I'd also love to study Italian in Italy for a few months

Hi, Shea. Congrats 🎉 for having an opportunity to have DUAL Citizenship in ITALY. IK you had EXPENSES to live there +School, Rent must COST you a fortune! That must be good opportunity for you. Hope you're considering it. Other than a STUDENT VISA, How to become an immigrant in Italy? I'm a US Citizen. ❤ grazie millie😅

Maybe it's from growing up in the southern part of the U.S.... I don't know... But it's only been in the last 15-20 years that greetings when entering shops has subsided. Even as a teenager, you almost had personal assistants when clothes shopping because employees would bring recommendations for you to try on and give input on your interests. There was always a dressing room attendant ready to help, too. Nowadays, they basically just leave you alone and you have to find them if you need something. I don't like it. I was recently clothes shopping in Rome and they were very attentive. It reminded me of what used to be and I loved it. Also, meals on the go and family dinners have changed over time, too. For my family, I made it a point to eat dinner around the table and Sunday dinners are always a family event. I can't help what all of society does but I can help how I run my home. Some traditions shouldn't be lost.

what do you do for a job ?

u r fake ..i bet u r a liberal

Sounds like you should move back to the US or learn to appreciate the warmth, charm, food, culture, antiquities, family values, etc that make Italy so incrediby special.

18:33- cultural habits ig, n that mental effect, if i do that i get that, if i dont, i dont

17:35 - nocibo would be :))

In my culture is considered rude to look like directly at ppl... even a friend told me some times, when you wanna look like to a lady what nice dress she's wearing dont look like so much, n in my mind im like okay but i dont get to really analyse the dress you know, but i turn away my gaze i realise this is what's accepted (& that's rude.. i mean i also find it uncomfortable when ppl stare at me... lol 😂 but ill be like smile at them (i had so many times in which id cry for the way they look, cs my face is, half ok, n even that half not that okay...)

About screens, which I presume you are referring to mosquito screens, are not very common in Italy, but their presence is increasing (for instance new building are usually built with a mosquito screen built-in in the windows). Actually if it is very hot and humid it is better to keep the windows close and the blinder (tick one, made of wood or aluminium or plastic), so that the heat does not come in.

Italian bureaucracy and various difficulties is the reason why Italians are smarter than others. When you return to the USA you will be more alert and intelligent, because your brain has had to think.. .

Welcome to Italy my friend!😂

In Italy we eat late because our big meal is at 1 pm.

L ' Italia e' tutta Bella e il cibo e' divino!! Quando Dio ha pensato di creare una Cosa e un luogo Bello lo ha fatto in Italia !! Non c'e' nient ' altro posto nella terra sublime come tale luogo!! VIVA l' Italia , VIVA Europe!!

E' veramente una bellissima citta' !! Li fanno degli ottimi tortellini, Cosa che mi mancano molto !! A me piacciono molto I tortellini! Per te e' la stessa cosa?!

Ti piace Bologna Shea?!

Your suggestions are really helpful!!

I don't understand why in America you speak English language and not Italian!! Given that it was two Italians who discovered the Earth that is now called America , first Christopher Columbus and then Amerigo Vespucci !! ( for which Amerca has taken the name of Amerigo ,from Amerigo to America) Consider well the fact that thanks two these Italians you Americans exist today !! Think it was enough that America was discovered a century later and you wouldn't be there today!! So it would be more right that Italian was spoken in America also jn honor of the two Italians who they discovered!! Or alternatively in America you could teach and speak in conjunction with English, Italian!! You are children of Italy don't forget it!!! VIVA l ' Italia , VIVA Europe!!!

Thank you for this video!

Hai veramente poco accento quando parli Italiano, complimenti!

My culture shock as an italian when I went to the US is people drinking tons of soft drinks instead of water, they are so unhealthy, it's like eating a cup of sugar every day and also the food portions are bigger than really needed and the food seems mostly industrial processed. About air conditioning I think in Arizona you are going to die without lol, I imagine Arizona like a desert.

I was 14 (40 years ago) and the a.c. didn't commonly exist. I was at school, after 2 hours of pe lesson, i was sweating and in the next class there was an open window right next to me: i end up 3 days in bed with 'cervicale' (the nerve that goes from the back of your ear to your upper back), completely still in my right side (even the shoulder and arm) and had to endure 3 shots a day of antinflammatory. After that episode, whenever i went out with a hint of wet hair, i was stiff again for 2 or 3 days after. Learned my lesson. Now i have always a scarf (or a hoodie) to put on, in case i find some "too much high" a.c. (restaurant, shop, the mall, etc.)

As an Italian, reading comments of other Italians who say people stare out of curiosity or denying they do ... I think its invisible for us cause we are so used to it. It took me living abroad to notice how people do not care at all about what people look like outside of Italy. Its like you becomw invisible. Here in Italy, we love people watching but we also love judging other people's clothes and appearances, which is embarrassing for me but also probably the reason people say we are so elegant, I guess. No one would go out in pjs here. No chance.

Colpo d’aria is a real thing! Cold blast of air against a muscle can cause it to seize. Been there. Looking forward to relocating to Italy!

Regarding the food in Italy: I was in Italy for about 6 months over a few years and I noticed my diabetes was easier to control because the food had fewer carbs. I was doing about 1/3 less of one insulin and about 40% less of the other. This, in spite of indulging myself in pizza feeding-frenzies multiple nights a week.

Wow,perfect.Keep up the good work for yourself

Interesting persepctive. Yeah, I've seen a lot of what you shared, and it's true. 🩵 We have paid internet online while living in Sicily so I think it depends on the company.

Nice video!! As Italian I also hate the bureaucraziness, with even more hatred because I am software developer. Those systems are so easy to make these days! But they don’t do them! We are losing so much money on this that doesn’t make sense. Oh, and yes, people beside you in the queue are 100% trying to jump ahead. Stare back at them. Really. That will put them in the right place.

Agree with your “shocks” 😂100% except that I love cakes 🍰 for breakfast! Also , none of the places I stayed had fire or carbon monoxide detectors 🤷‍♀️

I only stare at beautiful girls and hope for an eye contact and anything else that could happen 😂

Ma io penso che la signora abbia lei problemi. Anche pretendere che un altro paese abbia le abitudini del suo e assurdo proprio.

Nobody eat at 4 or 5 o'clock in italy

In Italy you do not buy stamps at the post office :O

In Milan I offered a job to someone that rejected it as he "needed" to have lunch at home and he lived 20 minutes ago.......

I am sooooooo with you. I am Australian and have experienced the same, if not worse (I'm in Sicily, for my sins :-) )!

In Greece also we are looking at whatever the surrounding envorinment includes, people, animals, buildings, cars . trees the sea etc, not staring!

A/C, screens and dryers are not common on rented apartments. The reason is simple: the landlord can easily find renters even without these things. For him to add these would be a useless cost. However many people in Italy use screens; I couldn't live without them! I suggest you to buy some removable ones, unless you think to stay only for a limited amount of time. For dryers and A/C the reason is the huge cost of electricity. However their number in Italy is steadily growing because new models consume less energy. I have both, but I try to use them in a moderate way. I use dryers only in the winter when it rains or it is foggy, so that it would be useless to hang out the laundry and I turn on A/C only when it is umbearably hot (around 40° C). We use A/C machines which can also heat and so I use it a little also in autumn, before turning on central heating. For the same reason (the cost) when we turn on A/C we don't set temperatures like 20°C, but temperatures more natural, around 25 o 26° C. 20° is the temperature that we keep in the winter (the heating is generally based on gas, and gas is extremely expensive too) and we stay at home with a jumper. It would be ridiculous to set 20° C in the summer and staying at home wearing a jumper while outside is hot as hell.

I'm Italian but wasn't born here. I lived in various countries around the world and got to Italy (and Europe) when I was 14. I had exactly the same cultural shocks you had (except for the lunch thing). I now teach in a kindergarten in Rome and the parents get upset if I turn the air conditioner on. The other day a kid threw up and the mother is sure it's because of the air conditioning. Wonder how I survived as a kid when classrooms were about 70 F and the school playground was about 104 and we went in and out all the time! (in the eighties hardly anyone had air conditioning in their car!!!)

Hiii I have been following you for a while but I only just decided to test out some Italian, I’m a French speaker and I hope it can be something fun and not too hard for me ! I’m practising the r 😂