Viva l'Italiani! siamo i più copiati al mondo! tutti vorrebbero essere italiani! In qualsiasi film americano o in generale straniero c'è almeno una cosa che riporta al nostro bel Paese! Peccato che non lo sappiamo struttare è il paese più bello al mondo e siamo in recessione.
I;m against stereotyping in general. It tells you a little bit of truth, so you'll always believe the lie, but this video is full of clips totally taken out of context. Does it ever occur to these people that the actions and mannerisms of the characters stem from the characters themselves and not from the fact that they are Italian Americans, although that is a part of their persona, but not necessarily the part where their actions come from?
I agree with Videoatlas, every nation has it´s own silly stereotypes. I´m spanish and I know ours all arround the world; bullfighting, gypsies, flamenco singing and dancing, sexism, racism, untollerance with homosexuals, always trying to trick money on people (specially tourists)....and so on. Only the trully igorant people believes those stereotypes under all circumstances. If I was you Italians I wouldn´t take any care of that. Greetings from a mediterranean cousin.
@uomodimerda Its called, ''Hollow-Wood''. Get it, Hollow in content and conviction? ''wood'', it means they will never understand because they are as dense as wood.
@wisewisegirl cos'ha di schifoso questo video? E' fatto per gli americani, è una difesa con gli stereotipi negativi affibbiati agli italiani e ad i loro discendenti, non capisco...
American are racist, against italian, because we permit to be like this.
There are other groups that were verbally abused, that have learn to defense themselves, so the result is that: american cannnot say a single word anymore. Instead Italian, the great majority, is completly indifferent, no reaction.
Also my father in law (not italian) was racist like american do. Now that kwows Italy, he loves Italy so much that all the time speaks Italian, read Italian books, loves Italian art & cinema.
I am sorry that the American cinema in this way we picture, however, at the same time the American cinema has madehis fortune with the Italian stereotypes that only partly share. Invitation to all those who want to know the true Italian people, to go right here to see and understand.
I'm a Italian boy and i think that is for this stereotypes that the Italians have a great sense of inferiority respect the other conuntries. I think that are some guy in America who think the Italians are worse that black and Jews. Let me tell you that we have invented the telephone, the radio comunications, the fork (wich you dont'use because you eat with your hand), and the Right (that you don't use in your court)!
@psycopower90 We speak Italian is true, but you also fuck all the wives, you go through life trying to make money and we do seem to enjoy your wives insoddisfatte.non really know who's better between us ... :)
@Marco7288RM Pardon me. Italian Americans are very nice and faithful people. I'm not sure about the ones in Italy. I have heard that Italians in Italy are "feccia" nowadays. I hope not. But it would explain their decline as a nation.
Not all italians are mobsters and whores. that's generalizing. We don't all have an attitude and a four letter vocabualry and eat our weight in pasta every night.What about Rudolph Valentino or Sophia Loren?
ma che stronzi!!!! in italia ci saranno anche persone così ma vi vorrei dire una cosa, cari americani, qui siamo tutti uguali e se ci sono stronzi in italia, ce ne sono altrettanti in america!!!!!!
Strange, bimbos are mostly americans or british...it looks like those people that hate italians have small penis...our roman ancestors were proud to have big penis...
America, the most capitalistic city of every times! their political, sanitary, and monetary sistem is so bad!! they use a stereotypes about italians, and other country for distract the population from real problems of USA. I'm italian, and I really like america, but their something rotten in it.
I'm Italian and I am sending you a fuck who you think you are !!!!?? rather than yours is a country with a century without progress you rather say these things to us instead of you think that you have a country full of obese. The only progress you have made is McDonald's all!
Questo video è corretto l'italia non è fatta solo di stupidi stereotipi così come l'america non è fatta di hamburger di ciccioni e cliniche di dimagrimento. Le più grandi opere e moltissime scoperte tecnologiche e non solo sono di MANO ITALIANA. Non dimentichiamocelo. (if someone don't understand what I have write...find someone who speak italian).
@rabbitphobia Wooo It seems like you're SO upset for no reason I mean... Why? Have you a SMALL penis?? Mmm that's probably why you're racist against 'dark men' lol whatevs dude... I'm done with it. Unlike you, I've a social life so byyyyeee.
@Lilla88able oi cum guzzler I have a huge cock just ask your mother you racist Nazi fascist stop spreading your hate you just want to taint and spread like a cancer shame on you and your racist thoughts.
@Lilla88able yeah maybe so but what about the other five guys that were doing her? Maybe compared to them I am, otherwise I am above average size ask her again.
@Lilla88able Thats not what your mamma says besides from what I have heard anything under 10 inches you consider small penis, thats why having sex with you is like screwing a bucket full of warm water.
@rabbitphobia Stop prove me that you've a small penis! If no, then you wouldn't say those things to a GIRL so that's what I call frustration... And if you know that your penis is large then you wouldn't be so upset just because someone that you don't even know told you that you've a small one. So... Now I'm just sure, you definitely have a small penis.
Devo dire che da Italiano la cosa non mi offende, e non dovrebbe offendere nemmeno te. Tanti nemici... tanto onore! Il giorno in cui tutte le Nazioni avranno dato al Mondo ciò che ha dato l'Italia , beh.... allora saremo pari.
Ever since I noticed American movies usually stereotype Italians that way, I've felt like my intelligence was being insulted and I'm not even of Italian ancestry.
Fuck up Hollywood is not enough. Each and every one of Americans who has ever worked for Hollywood must be executed, irrespective of their genders, races or whether they're big movie stars or not.
Big deal. if things are so bad in the US just go back to Italy.
Most other imigrants can't just go back to their old homeland to have a confortable life. Who would want to migrate to Somalia, Algeria, Vietnam or to a poor mexican village in somewhere in a desert far from big cities and law when they can live in the first world?
And it's not like italian americans can complain of racism now at days. Try being black, mexican or some third world citizen in the US. You wouldn't handle it.
I have noticed too the will to create a particular perception of Italians by certain types of foreign media which hardly corresponds to reality. The tendency is to ridicule them but in fact they are amongst the best educated, the Italian education system is one of the best in the world which can't be said the same for the American one for example...
Lately in American films they always present crooks as Russian as if Russians are mainly crooks. Jewish media creates false perceptions of others.
@Semiramis2000 The previous government held by Berlusconi cut the spending on its public education justifying themselves as an approach to cut the country's deficit. The truth is, Italy has many corrupted politicans that earn so much money at its people's expense. It's foolish to cut down the spending by reducing the money spent on education; in the worst scenario, Italy will be full of retarded kids. Why do you think that Italians can't speak English and can't even solve simple maths problems?
@struzzobox By the way, I live in Milano, which is the richest and most developed Italian city. Education in this country lacks of fundings - see for instance countries like South Korea, Finland and Israel where they receive billions of USD just for the education. In those countries, students are fully trained to be the best at every subject, because those governments are aware that educations is a stepping stone for a bright future. Here in Italy, no one gives a shit about education.
@struzzobox The truth is corrupt politicians are everywhere. To think otherwise is to be naive. As for reducing cost of education, this is happening in many countries right now. As for retarded kids they already exist in many other countries right now. Italy will have them later as a result of the changes. That no one gives a shit about Education it is your very own personal opinion. Families have always tried to push education onto their kids one way or other.
Respond to this video... As for maths, 10% of the people working in the City of London's financial centre happen to be Italian. In the Italian school if you don't reach the level required, at the end of the scholastic year you have to repeat. In a European country, where I live, many children leave school with hardly any education at all, they barely know how to read and have never even studied grammar...
@Semiramis2000 10% happen to be graduated from British universities. Repeating in many countries is mandatory, Italy is too as you said. Nonetheless, many Italian kids (1 out 5) drop out of high school to go and work. What I am saying is nothing but the reality that Italians will face in the future. No education=less chance of pursuing a successfull career. hope it explained any issues
@struzzobox Ciao! The Italians that are working in the City are in Uk on contracts directly from Italy. A University course in Italy lasts 4 years in Uk only 3. Now that you have opened your eyes to what you think is the reality in Italy, you should open them about the reality in Britain. Uk is the country I was referring to. If grammar is not even included in the National Curriculum, how can they even learn to speak their own language properly, let alone a foreign one....
Respond to this video... Look at what is happening to education in Britain right now... There is a conspiracy against education right now as ignorants are easier to control and to deceive than educated people...
Have you ever seen a hollywood movie with a positive depiction of : Irish, Spanish, German, Belgian, Dutch, French, Greek, Czech, Austrian, Russian, Mongolian, Chinese, Japanese, Slovakian, Polish, Finnish, Danish, British, Scottish, Portuguese, Colombian, Peruvian, Australian, etc. people?? I haven't...Hollywood is sooooooooooooooooooooo full of itself and Americans, that they don't get it!! How can they, when they won't even recognize and mock the original inhabitants of their country??
I am Colombian and I visited italy... and this stereotypes are very American.... the people I saw back in italy are NOTHING like this.... in fact this type of HOLLY CANNOLI, BADDA BOOM BOOM HOW YA DOIN!!! is regarded as low class and american in italy. Real italians dont even like baseball but love soccer/football!! it's like hispanics, they think everyone who speak spanish is a mexican, in reality is different. America = ignorance
beh...pure noi mica ci andiamo liscio con gli stereotipi quando immaginiamo o facciamo film che contengono personaggi inglesi,americani,giapponesi,francesi ecc...piace tanto anche a noi usare gli stereoptipi quindi smettiamola di piangerci addosso....
Le persone intelligenti lo capiscono benissimo che uno stereotipo non rappresenta per forza la realtà,non hanno bisogno che qualcuno glielo spieghi con un video...gli altri che continuino a ragionare per stereotipi,peggio per loro
@MMMBUTI io non ho mai visto uno stereotipo fatto da italiani su qualsiasi altra nazione ,prova a cercare su youtube stereotipo di qualsiasi nazione in italia, non c'e nemmeno un video,mentre ce ne sono CENTINAIA su di noi ....e poi i film americani, i cartoni le serie tv che vengono trasmesse in tutto il mondo non hanno solo "stereotipato" ma "OFFESO E RIDICOLIZZATO" gli italiani per anni e se non lo capisci e perche' ti hanno fatto il lavaggio del cervello cn tutta la TV americana
if you think Italy is a sunny country you probably have to visit my small town, Cremona, 90 km far from milan. It seems to be in london in winter from september to april.
@SilviaSkiSka And in Milan there's more rain than in London, beside the cold in the winter time in all Northern Italy!!!
I spent a whole year in London; to me their winter was a nice sunny autumn, it was funny how they expected me to be frizzing instead of FINE! And there were 5 only 5 days of nice and soft snow that melted instead of turning into ice as happens in Northern Italy...
gli stereotipi vanno bene ...finchè sono positivi!8 fanno buona pubblicità) cmq bel video...anch'io quando stavo in america mi irritavo se vedevo in tv qualche brutto esempio di italiano.
@youmarlinblutube Perché prende per il culo gli Italiani, dicendo che siamo dei falliti e che nell'ultimo secolo non abbiam combinato niente di buono. Cosa per niente vera, non capisco perché abbia fatto i complimenti a sto cretino
@LouiseHans10 eh allora forse hai frainteso il senso del video. È una denuncia degli stereotipi italiani nei film americani. Non ci prende per il culo, ma praticamente dice che a Hollywood si son fatto troppi film razzisti e pieni di luoghi comuni sugli italiani. In sostanza in questo video si difendono gli italiani, non dice che siamo falliti :)
I heard foreign people say "italiani buona gente" pretty everywhere I went abroad. If this proverb exists, it must mean we did something right XD and we still do. we don't stink, we're not all into mafia, we CAN speak english, we could and can do things as well as others. stereotypes are dull, get to know us before u judge! and don't forget every country has something to be ashamed of or regarded as weird by others. if europe wants to stay united, we have to look past differences.
Gli stereotipi sono come un paio di pantofole vecchie e ormai sformate, perciò molto comode. Inoltre evitano agli ignoranti di approfondire gli argomenti e di informarsi. Per la maggior parte degli statunitensi studiare la storia significa imparare a memoria i nomi in perfetta successione dei loro Presidenti. Fatto salvo le innumerevoli eccezioni, noi a scuola studiamo la battaglia di Gettysburg del 1863, loro non studiano la nostra battaglia di Solferino, le guerre Puniche poi...
@ottogemona Esatto, non potrei aggiungere altro. La peggior cosa poi è il NON voler informarsi apposta perché è più comodo e costa meno fatica credere negli stereotipi.
Gli stereotipi sono fastidiosi solo se il pregiudizio che c'è alla basa lo senti in qualche modo "vero". Personalmente penso che non siamo ne' migliori ne' peggiori di qualsiasi altro popolo e certamente non cambierò la percezione di me stressa perchè hollywood ha dipinto i miei trisavoli emigrati come dei criminali!
Amo l'Italia e gli Stati Uniti, Hollywood compreso. Baci a tutti
Are you sure they are Ital-am? I know in poor blocks in USA there many mixed-blood ppl uncertain re their roots and claim to be Italian to... dunno... be kinda cool?
Whereas in EU wherever I go I see Arabians showing off the Italian flag on Tshirts, hats... I think they wish to pass as Italian, I think they want to change the image of the Italians... I do not know...
Believe me, the world is plenty of FAKE Italians...
Even some comments on UTube: in Eng and google-translated Ital.
@LouiseHans10 They are Italian americans! Stop whining about the hollywood all good mob movies where directed by italians not from other nations. Goodfellas- Scorsese, Casino-Scorsese, Godfather- Coppola, The sopranos- David Chase! So stop the fucking whining!
If you give it two minutes' thought, you will realise that the mobster/mafia movies are based on the Sicilian mafia, which in fact is/was the jewish-Sicilian mafia in the same way the so-called 'Russian mafia' is in fact the Russian-jew mafia. To confirm this, do a little research to learn that at one point, 40 to 50 percent of Sicily was jewish. And you can find on Youtube that jews are encouraging a resurgence of Italian-jewry
So, basically, you resent being portrayed as Italians from the South, which is in itself also a prejudicial attitude because not all Southeners are mafiosi either. I have always thought it funny how Italians from the North consider themselves to be so different from the rest of Italy when in other parts of Europe they are seen as the same. I mean, look at Berlusconi: short, dark skinned, balding, extravagant, and some would say mafioso... He is from Milano, not Palermo...
Funny enough "Guido" is an Italian personal name of Germanic origin and the name of characters such as Guido Guinizzelli and Guido Cavalcanti, who are in that group of Italian poets who basically created the modern western literature.
@qiovanni Stereotyped black Americans (chubby faces of funny "niggers" with rhytm flowing through their veins) and stereotyped Italian Americans (fat dark skinned mafioso).
I only see three men sitting at a table! if Italians were mobsters what is the problem in making movies about Italian mobsters? I don't understand. Italians made movies about the Mafia too, it doesn't mean that Italians are all mobsters, that is pretty obvious. Hollywood depicted SOME Italians for what they are, it isn't a work of fantasy! It's not like they're showing Italians landing on the moon or dancing Samba.
@qiovanni Anti Italianism is a widespread phenomenon in the US and several sociologists have shown that Hollywood has played a central role in it (many scientific researches and essays about do exist - but I thought some good sense could suffice). But, yes, maybe Hollywood is right, whereas good sense and sociology are wrong.
Hollywood didn't depict some Italian Mafiosi for what they actually are with realistic movies, but it has made a huge amount of totally unrealistic movies where totally IMAGINARY mobsters, bad tempered men, buffoons, etc are LABELLED AS ITALIANS. Didn't you read the STATISTICS the video shows? Don’t you notice an enormous GAP between what the Italians are (but also what they’ve been historically) and the way they’re depicted in the popular culture products from the US?
Italian mobsters are even worse than the ones depicted in Hollywood movies. I've never seen an Italian mobster melting a 10 y/o child in acid in a movie, but I did hear about it on the Italian news... anti-italianism is older than Hollywood, it was probably worse before. when the Italians arrived in America they were seen as aliens and now they are part of the society, more than they were before.
Singular isolated events are irrelevant to the issue, and the event you're referring to was shocking for the traditional Italian criminal cartels themselves, which historically have a code of honor differently from let's say.. the Mexican mobsters. But Sicilian mafia, Yakuza, Russian mafia, Chinese mafia, and so on apart.. psychos, mobsters, soldiers and terrorists from all over the world have made such actions.
The issue is the gap between those cinematographic depictions and facts or even the absence of any connection between those Hollywood depictions and the actual reality.
Why don't they defame any people from which some criminal was?
You have to stuck it in your head that the vast majority of the criminals in America are far from being of Italian ancestry, yet in Hollywood "Italian" means criminal. Is this fair?
And I didn't say Hollywood created anti Italianism; I said it played an important role within the phenomenon.
In fact I've rather said the very few Italian mobsters are not depicted in such movies (that's would be acceptable), but thousands negative IMAGINARY infamous and defamatory characters who have nothing to do with any kind of Italian are labeled as Italians. In this way a whole nation is defamed to entertain the audience.
how about blowing an entire highway to kill the top antimafia judge? never seen that in a hollywood movie either.. you are too stressed about this. movies are made on Italian mobsters just because people like to watch mafia stories. do you want a movie on Italian plumbers or renaissance painters? who would go to watch it? try to reverse your point of view: maybe you are the one depicting Americans like a bunch of idiots who can't get things right...
@qiovanni You don’t get the point yet. Generally speaking they don't make movies on actual Italian mobsters in the same way they don't make movies on any kind of Italian. They have basically invented a cinematographic bad character and named it "the Italian" while defaming a whole nation.
This is something they inherited from some old British novel of low quality.
It has nothing to do with our mafia but rather with a certain Puritanism and anti-Renaissance aka anti-Modern mentality that started in England several centuries ago (see the saying "The English man Italianate is the Devil incarnate"). Mafia is just the easy thing Puritans have founded in the contemporary age to defame the Italians, but it could be anything else.
The averege American got used to that way to characterize the Italians invented by the Puritans so Hollywood gives the average American what the average American expects.
on top of that Americans usually make movies on Italo-Americans who at the end of the day are Americans. I am pretty sure Americans know how to portrait themselves. how about Rocky or Rambo then? aren't they American heroes? Americans are also well traveled, they visit Italy a lot more than Italians visit America. they study the art and explore the food in Italy.
@qiovanni Rocky is a lowlife hero in the end. The best Hollywood allows us to be.
But if you're trying to say that we have supporters in the USA, that's certainly true, but here the point is to oppose the haters. And Hollywood played an important role in brainwashing them.
Not all Italian Americans are of Southern Italian or Sicilian background like the three men you mentioned. My paternal grandparents (and the ancestors of others in the Mississippi Delta) came from Ancona province northeast of Rome. Italian American culture as portrayed in "The Godfather", "Raging Bull", "Jersey Shore", etc. is totally alien to us. God bless.
@cbalducc Yeah, people always fail to see that. Italian Americans' ancestors were, for the most, from southern Italy so I understand Americans fail to understand Italy is a very diverse country with many differences from north to south. Not to mention the center part of Italy: we're like...well, never considered. I'm from Le Marche too, but from the province of Macerata. I wish my grandparents had moved to USA too, I've always envied Italian Americans (but in a good way). Greeting from Italy!
@cbalducc Actually that's completely alien to any Italian. All the Italians have always been badly protrayed in the anglophone world. The first Italians to reach Australia were from the north (Val Camonica in instance which is very close to Switzerland), yet they were characterized in the same bad ways the Usans would characterize the southerners. The Sicilians were just used to add the mafioso stereotype to the rest. With your Le Marche you're not going to get any better historically speaking.
@indgiu Also many of the actors playing in those movies are Italians of origin. What you have to get is that Hollywood doesn't allow to represent the Italians in any way but the stereotypical one. So, if you're an actor of Italian origin, you either represent the sterotypical Italian or you do not work. Also better if you happen to be particularly dark skinned, short and bold..
Give a look to the ethnical background of the actual film makers.
THE FUNNY THINGS IS THAT AMERICAN ARE THE MOST IGNORANT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TRY TO GO ON YOUTUBE ANTI AMERICANISM IN EUROPE
90 % OF THE "ITALIAN" IN USA ARE FROM SICILY, SICILY IS AN ISLAND LIKE HAWAII IN AMERICA THAT BECAME PART OF ITALY 150 YEARS AGO, SICILIAN AREN'T CONSIDERED ITALIAN IN ITALY
DO YOU WANNA SEE REAL ITALIAN IN ITALY ? GO IN YOUTUBE AND CHECK FEDERICA FONTANA THEN BARBARA D'URSO THEN ILARY BLASI THEN GIULIA MONTANARINI THEN LAURA FREDDI THEN ALESSIA MARCUZZI
THE FUNNY THINGS IS THAT AMERICAN ARE THE MOST IGNORANT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TRY TO GO ON YOUTUBE ANTI AMERICANISM IN EUROPE
90 % OF THE "ITALIAN" IN USA ARE FROM SICILY, SICILY IS AN ISLAND LIKE HAWAII IN AMERICA THAT BECAME PART OF ITALY 150 YEARS AGO, SICILIAN AREN'T CONSIDERED ITALIAN IN ITALY
DO YOU WANNA SEE REAL ITALIAN IN ITALY ? GO IN YOUTUBE AND CHECK FEDERICA FONTANA THEN BARBARA D'URSO THEN ILARY BLASI THEN GIULIA MONTANARINI THEN LAURA FREDDI THEN ALESSIA MARCUZZI
THE FUNNY THINGS IS THAT AMERICAN ARE THE MOST IGNORANT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TRY TO GO ON YOUTUBE ANTI AMERICANISM IN EUROPE
90 % OF THE "ITALIAN" IN USA ARE FROM SICILY, SICILY IS AN ISLAND LIKE HAWAII IN AMERICA THAT BECAME PART OF ITALY 150 YEARS AGO, SICILIAN AREN'T CONSIDERED ITALIAN IN ITALY
DO YOU WANNA SEE REAL ITALIAN IN ITALY ? GO IN YOUTUBE AND CHECK FEDERICA FONTANA THEN BARBARA D'URSO THEN ILARY BLASI THEN GIULIA MONTANARINI THEN LAURA FREDDI THEN ALESSIA MARCUZZI
THE FUNNY THINGS IS THAT AMERICAN ARE THE MOST IGNORANT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TRY TO GO ON YOUTUBE ANTI AMERICANISM IN EUROPE
90 % OF THE "ITALIAN" IN USA ARE FROM SICILY, SICILY IS AN ISLAND LIKE HAWAII IN AMERICA THAT BECAME PART OF ITALY 150 YEARS AGO, SICILIAN AREN'T CONSIDERED ITALIAN IN ITALY
DO YOU WANNA SEE REAL ITALIAN IN ITALY ? GO IN YOUTUBE AND CHECK FEDERICA FONTANA THEN BARBARA D'URSO THEN ILARY BLASI THEN GIULIA MONTANARINI THEN LAURA FREDDI THEN ALESSIA MARCUZZI
THE FUNNY THINGS IS THAT AMERICAN ARE THE MOST IGNORANT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TRY TO GO ON YOUTUBE ANTI AMERICANISM IN EUROPE
90 % OF THE "ITALIAN" IN USA ARE FROM SICILY, SICILY IS AN ISLAND LIKE HAWAII IN AMERICA THAT BECAME PART OF ITALY 150 YEARS AGO, SICILIAN AREN'T CONSIDERED ITALIAN IN ITALY
DO YOU WANNA SEE REAL ITALIAN IN ITALY ? GO IN YOUTUBE AND CHECK FEDERICA FONTANA THEN BARBARA D'URSO THEN ILARY BLASI THEN GIULIA MONTANARINI THEN LAURA FREDDI THEN ALESSIA MARCUZZI
a tutti i non italiani VI ROMPIAMO IL CULO
video idiota e senza senso
chrisrstk 6 hours ago
"Vivat"? o_0
Kataskematico 1 day ago
@Kataskematico it's latin
absurdious 1 day ago
@absurdious I know, but i don't understand why it's used here, it should be "viva" as in italian. Well, it's not a problem ^_^
Kataskematico 1 day ago
Viva l'Italiani! siamo i più copiati al mondo! tutti vorrebbero essere italiani! In qualsiasi film americano o in generale straniero c'è almeno una cosa che riporta al nostro bel Paese! Peccato che non lo sappiamo struttare è il paese più bello al mondo e siamo in recessione.
francemeniACDC 1 day ago
I;m against stereotyping in general. It tells you a little bit of truth, so you'll always believe the lie, but this video is full of clips totally taken out of context. Does it ever occur to these people that the actions and mannerisms of the characters stem from the characters themselves and not from the fact that they are Italian Americans, although that is a part of their persona, but not necessarily the part where their actions come from?
7DirtyWordsAndMore 2 days ago
this vid seems to be about Usa more than about Italy...
MrBOXDEMOLITION 2 days ago
I agree with Videoatlas, every nation has it´s own silly stereotypes. I´m spanish and I know ours all arround the world; bullfighting, gypsies, flamenco singing and dancing, sexism, racism, untollerance with homosexuals, always trying to trick money on people (specially tourists)....and so on. Only the trully igorant people believes those stereotypes under all circumstances. If I was you Italians I wouldn´t take any care of that. Greetings from a mediterranean cousin.
leon13trece 2 weeks ago 4
hollywhat?? CINECITTA' MADE THE HISTORY OF CINEMA!! You just spoiled it...FREE TIBET
uomodimerda 3 weeks ago
@uomodimerda Its called, ''Hollow-Wood''. Get it, Hollow in content and conviction? ''wood'', it means they will never understand because they are as dense as wood.
Johnnystrychnine 1 day ago
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uomodimerda 3 weeks ago
Everybody is victim of stereotypes, the americans too. But who cares? Stay with intelligent peoples and you will have only nice time.
Videoatlas 3 weeks ago
è solo quello che pensano veramente il 70% delle persone nel mondo.
Italia: pizza, pasta, mafia e mascalzoni.
imvigaoftheworld 3 weeks ago
@imvigaoftheworld e il mandolino
Panzer857 1 week ago
Vaffanculo! :) DO you understand ?
wisewisegirl 1 month ago
@wisewisegirl Vacci tu !!!!
DrProgressiveRock 3 weeks ago
@DrProgressiveRock Era per chi ha pubblicato questo schifo di video,non per gli italiani! -.-'
wisewisegirl 3 weeks ago
@wisewisegirl cos'ha di schifoso questo video? E' fatto per gli americani, è una difesa con gli stereotipi negativi affibbiati agli italiani e ad i loro discendenti, non capisco...
steelblade90 2 weeks ago 3
American are racist, against italian, because we permit to be like this.
There are other groups that were verbally abused, that have learn to defense themselves, so the result is that: american cannnot say a single word anymore. Instead Italian, the great majority, is completly indifferent, no reaction.
Also my father in law (not italian) was racist like american do. Now that kwows Italy, he loves Italy so much that all the time speaks Italian, read Italian books, loves Italian art & cinema.
skyjuke2006 1 month ago
I am sorry that the American cinema in this way we picture, however, at the same time the American cinema has madehis fortune with the Italian stereotypes that only partly share. Invitation to all those who want to know the true Italian people, to go right here to see and understand.
emilianoyano 1 month ago
is Tom sizemore at 2:50?
1coteca 1 month ago
i laughed my ass off! ciao!
1coteca 1 month ago
I'm a Italian boy and i think that is for this stereotypes that the Italians have a great sense of inferiority respect the other conuntries. I think that are some guy in America who think the Italians are worse that black and Jews. Let me tell you that we have invented the telephone, the radio comunications, the fork (wich you dont'use because you eat with your hand), and the Right (that you don't use in your court)!
Agatocle89 1 month ago
Rispondo e mando lo scacco matto agli americani con il nome di Federico Faggin.
UsaiAntonio 1 month ago
oouu fucking americans! you have to study!!
FabioMarullo 1 month ago
Italian and proud beyond words
blissHeavenly 1 month ago
Italians = just chat and badge.
psycopower90 1 month ago
@psycopower90 We speak Italian is true, but you also fuck all the wives, you go through life trying to make money and we do seem to enjoy your wives insoddisfatte.non really know who's better between us ... :)
2111vale 1 month ago
@psycopower90 shut the fuck up!
1coteca 1 month ago
i say "pasta " to stereotypes....:-)
flex1121 1 month ago 14
They make fun of any Europeans tgat have maintained The Faith. Case and point the Irish. The Polish the Italians.
Danvislav 1 month ago
@Danvislav Come in Italy and try to find faithful people...
Marco7288RM 1 month ago
@Marco7288RM Pardon me. Italian Americans are very nice and faithful people. I'm not sure about the ones in Italy. I have heard that Italians in Italy are "feccia" nowadays. I hope not. But it would explain their decline as a nation.
Danvislav 1 month ago
Not all italians are mobsters and whores. that's generalizing. We don't all have an attitude and a four letter vocabualry and eat our weight in pasta every night.What about Rudolph Valentino or Sophia Loren?
ccipollini1984 1 month ago
I am Slovene and I find this video very offending. You simply deleted our country. On the map there is Austria all over us.
mrjan95 1 month ago 3
@mrjan95 XD
LouiseHans10 1 month ago
@mrjan95 it's an old map asshole it's clear that your country is in the jugoslavian federation
horrorvacui121 1 month ago 5
@mrjan95 Probably both the map and the video are really old.
pratolli 1 month ago
31% of Hollywood's italians depicted as good? Not bad, I'm OK with being 1/3 good.
Now let's talk about how Hollywood treats latinos and asians.
Wedhro 1 month ago
condivido sul fatto dell'onore siamo italiani ma i problemi ci sono eccome!
badguysneversleep 1 month ago
se vabbè! in italy we got a problem with mafia and politicians for real im sorry to disappoint you!
badguysneversleep 1 month ago
ma che stronzi!!!! in italia ci saranno anche persone così ma vi vorrei dire una cosa, cari americani, qui siamo tutti uguali e se ci sono stronzi in italia, ce ne sono altrettanti in america!!!!!!
vitaperte1997 1 month ago
Strange, bimbos are mostly americans or british...it looks like those people that hate italians have small penis...our roman ancestors were proud to have big penis...
Sannypowa 1 month ago
Very good job! The second music theme was a little unfitting, nevertheless I've found this video impressive and kind, complimenti da Cesena :)
eljuevesrebel 2 months ago
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eljuevesrebel 2 months ago
America, the most capitalistic city of every times! their political, sanitary, and monetary sistem is so bad!! they use a stereotypes about italians, and other country for distract the population from real problems of USA. I'm italian, and I really like america, but their something rotten in it.
TheOnlyWAYtoStayHere 2 months ago 2
mamma mia
we are a good people
anonimo2932 2 months ago
I'm Italian and I am sending you a fuck who you think you are !!!!?? rather than yours is a country with a century without progress you rather say these things to us instead of you think that you have a country full of obese. The only progress you have made is McDonald's all!
kingdomhearts092 2 months ago
The guy that posted this found out his mom takes Italians from every position.
rabbitphobia 2 months ago 2
ITALIANS ARE THE BEST =D
drugobianconero91 2 months ago
Not so fast mr. Ginzo Pizzcuino It was Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia as the Cradle of Western Civilization.
worldwildwest 2 months ago
@worldwildwest True but the Italians brought it to the world.
rabbitphobia 2 months ago
Questo video è corretto l'italia non è fatta solo di stupidi stereotipi così come l'america non è fatta di hamburger di ciccioni e cliniche di dimagrimento. Le più grandi opere e moltissime scoperte tecnologiche e non solo sono di MANO ITALIANA. Non dimentichiamocelo. (if someone don't understand what I have write...find someone who speak italian).
fantasticomrvolpe 2 months ago
Also, why Italians are all SO dark in Hollywood movies???
Lilla88able 2 months ago
@Lilla88able Because your mamma likes darker men.
rabbitphobia 2 months ago
@rabbitphobia LOL I've nothing against "dark" or "black" men so, if you want to offend me it doesn't work you racist bastard
Lilla88able 2 months ago
@Lilla88able Hey cum guzzler make sure you respond to the right person.
rabbitphobia 2 months ago
@rabbitphobia Yeah you're the right person you son of a Bitch stupid racist
Lilla88able 2 months ago
@Lilla88able Your mothers a whore you ignorant crazy little turd.
rabbitphobia 1 month ago
@rabbitphobia Wooo It seems like you're SO upset for no reason I mean... Why? Have you a SMALL penis?? Mmm that's probably why you're racist against 'dark men' lol whatevs dude... I'm done with it. Unlike you, I've a social life so byyyyeee.
Lilla88able 1 month ago
@Lilla88able oi cum guzzler I have a huge cock just ask your mother you racist Nazi fascist stop spreading your hate you just want to taint and spread like a cancer shame on you and your racist thoughts.
rabbitphobia 1 month ago
@rabbitphobia LOL are you confused now? YOU are the racist one here.... Anyway yeah I aked my mom and she told me that you have a SMALL penis. LOL
Lilla88able 1 month ago
@Lilla88able yeah maybe so but what about the other five guys that were doing her? Maybe compared to them I am, otherwise I am above average size ask her again.
rabbitphobia 1 month ago
@rabbitphobia Small penis.
Lilla88able 1 month ago
@Lilla88able Thats not what your mamma says besides from what I have heard anything under 10 inches you consider small penis, thats why having sex with you is like screwing a bucket full of warm water.
rabbitphobia 1 month ago
@rabbitphobia Stop prove me that you've a small penis! If no, then you wouldn't say those things to a GIRL so that's what I call frustration... And if you know that your penis is large then you wouldn't be so upset just because someone that you don't even know told you that you've a small one. So... Now I'm just sure, you definitely have a small penis.
Lilla88able 1 month ago
@Lilla88able lol you really do amuse me, would you like to meet up to test your theory on what I am like?
rabbitphobia 1 month ago
Vivat Italia?
JohnLewisZanna 2 months ago
idioti stupidi stereotipi
diegoverdegiglio 2 months ago
Devo dire che da Italiano la cosa non mi offende, e non dovrebbe offendere nemmeno te. Tanti nemici... tanto onore! Il giorno in cui tutte le Nazioni avranno dato al Mondo ciò che ha dato l'Italia , beh.... allora saremo pari.
ceccherecchi 2 months ago
best title ever for such kind of video
awfulguitarplucker 2 months ago
Ever since I noticed American movies usually stereotype Italians that way, I've felt like my intelligence was being insulted and I'm not even of Italian ancestry.
JSKaoru 2 months ago
Fuck up Hollywood is not enough. Each and every one of Americans who has ever worked for Hollywood must be executed, irrespective of their genders, races or whether they're big movie stars or not.
"Bla, bla, bla..."
Execution now, from the big movie stars...
:-)
gewangew 2 months ago
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RossoPescarese 2 months ago
Big deal. if things are so bad in the US just go back to Italy.
Most other imigrants can't just go back to their old homeland to have a confortable life. Who would want to migrate to Somalia, Algeria, Vietnam or to a poor mexican village in somewhere in a desert far from big cities and law when they can live in the first world?
And it's not like italian americans can complain of racism now at days. Try being black, mexican or some third world citizen in the US. You wouldn't handle it.
arthurude1 3 months ago
@arthurude1 President of USA is black, what racism you talking bout?
Zaankanter 2 months ago
Still 31% it's still better than what most of us get! Sadly enough.
RoyalKnightVIII 3 months ago
sono italiano...molte cose possono esser vere,molte romanzate....
ma mettere in ridicolo la famiglia italiana,è una bestemmia.
noi passiamo quasi 2 ore a tavola assieme....non farei certo a cambio con 3 panini mangiati in 5 minuti al mc donalds...
questa è qualità della vita...e piacere dello stare in famiglia.
fjore77 3 months ago
@fjore77 PAROLE SANTE!!!!!!
cedeb12 3 months ago
Media created stereotypes encourage ignorants to form an opinion about others to prevent them from exploring further and using their own brains.
Media thinks for them.
Semiramis2000 3 months ago
I have noticed too the will to create a particular perception of Italians by certain types of foreign media which hardly corresponds to reality. The tendency is to ridicule them but in fact they are amongst the best educated, the Italian education system is one of the best in the world which can't be said the same for the American one for example...
Lately in American films they always present crooks as Russian as if Russians are mainly crooks. Jewish media creates false perceptions of others.
Semiramis2000 3 months ago
@Semiramis2000 The previous government held by Berlusconi cut the spending on its public education justifying themselves as an approach to cut the country's deficit. The truth is, Italy has many corrupted politicans that earn so much money at its people's expense. It's foolish to cut down the spending by reducing the money spent on education; in the worst scenario, Italy will be full of retarded kids. Why do you think that Italians can't speak English and can't even solve simple maths problems?
struzzobox 2 months ago
@struzzobox By the way, I live in Milano, which is the richest and most developed Italian city. Education in this country lacks of fundings - see for instance countries like South Korea, Finland and Israel where they receive billions of USD just for the education. In those countries, students are fully trained to be the best at every subject, because those governments are aware that educations is a stepping stone for a bright future. Here in Italy, no one gives a shit about education.
struzzobox 2 months ago
@struzzobox The truth is corrupt politicians are everywhere. To think otherwise is to be naive. As for reducing cost of education, this is happening in many countries right now. As for retarded kids they already exist in many other countries right now. Italy will have them later as a result of the changes. That no one gives a shit about Education it is your very own personal opinion. Families have always tried to push education onto their kids one way or other.
Semiramis2000 2 months ago
Respond to this video... As for maths, 10% of the people working in the City of London's financial centre happen to be Italian. In the Italian school if you don't reach the level required, at the end of the scholastic year you have to repeat. In a European country, where I live, many children leave school with hardly any education at all, they barely know how to read and have never even studied grammar...
Semiramis2000 2 months ago
@Semiramis2000 10% happen to be graduated from British universities. Repeating in many countries is mandatory, Italy is too as you said. Nonetheless, many Italian kids (1 out 5) drop out of high school to go and work. What I am saying is nothing but the reality that Italians will face in the future. No education=less chance of pursuing a successfull career. hope it explained any issues
struzzobox 2 months ago
@struzzobox Ciao! The Italians that are working in the City are in Uk on contracts directly from Italy. A University course in Italy lasts 4 years in Uk only 3. Now that you have opened your eyes to what you think is the reality in Italy, you should open them about the reality in Britain. Uk is the country I was referring to. If grammar is not even included in the National Curriculum, how can they even learn to speak their own language properly, let alone a foreign one....
Semiramis2000 2 months ago
Respond to this video... Look at what is happening to education in Britain right now... There is a conspiracy against education right now as ignorants are easier to control and to deceive than educated people...
Semiramis2000 2 months ago
Have you ever seen a hollywood movie with a positive depiction of : Irish, Spanish, German, Belgian, Dutch, French, Greek, Czech, Austrian, Russian, Mongolian, Chinese, Japanese, Slovakian, Polish, Finnish, Danish, British, Scottish, Portuguese, Colombian, Peruvian, Australian, etc. people?? I haven't...Hollywood is sooooooooooooooooooooo full of itself and Americans, that they don't get it!! How can they, when they won't even recognize and mock the original inhabitants of their country??
gyqz 3 months ago
I am Colombian and I visited italy... and this stereotypes are very American.... the people I saw back in italy are NOTHING like this.... in fact this type of HOLLY CANNOLI, BADDA BOOM BOOM HOW YA DOIN!!! is regarded as low class and american in italy. Real italians dont even like baseball but love soccer/football!! it's like hispanics, they think everyone who speak spanish is a mexican, in reality is different. America = ignorance
TheYaom 3 months ago 3
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andre89uvz 3 months ago
@andre89uvz ?? che problema hai??
friedchicken1981 3 months ago
beh...pure noi mica ci andiamo liscio con gli stereotipi quando immaginiamo o facciamo film che contengono personaggi inglesi,americani,giapponesi,francesi ecc...piace tanto anche a noi usare gli stereoptipi quindi smettiamola di piangerci addosso....
Le persone intelligenti lo capiscono benissimo che uno stereotipo non rappresenta per forza la realtà,non hanno bisogno che qualcuno glielo spieghi con un video...gli altri che continuino a ragionare per stereotipi,peggio per loro
MMMBUTI 3 months ago
@MMMBUTI io non ho mai visto uno stereotipo fatto da italiani su qualsiasi altra nazione ,prova a cercare su youtube stereotipo di qualsiasi nazione in italia, non c'e nemmeno un video,mentre ce ne sono CENTINAIA su di noi ....e poi i film americani, i cartoni le serie tv che vengono trasmesse in tutto il mondo non hanno solo "stereotipato" ma "OFFESO E RIDICOLIZZATO" gli italiani per anni e se non lo capisci e perche' ti hanno fatto il lavaggio del cervello cn tutta la TV americana
8gighen9 3 months ago
if you think Italy is a sunny country you probably have to visit my small town, Cremona, 90 km far from milan. It seems to be in london in winter from september to april.
SilviaSkiSka 3 months ago
@SilviaSkiSka And in Milan there's more rain than in London, beside the cold in the winter time in all Northern Italy!!!
I spent a whole year in London; to me their winter was a nice sunny autumn, it was funny how they expected me to be frizzing instead of FINE! And there were 5 only 5 days of nice and soft snow that melted instead of turning into ice as happens in Northern Italy...
I fould Londonìs weather really nice
LouiseHans10 3 months ago
@SilviaSkiSka Cremona??
Concittadina!
(quasi: il mio paese è ad un passo dal mantovano)
elfrate 3 months ago
@SilviaSkiSka ma se a londra si mette a piovere quasi quotidianamente e senza che neanche te lo aspetti!
catttanzarese 3 months ago
@catttanzarese e questo in cosa contrasterebbe con quello che ho detto?
SilviaSkiSka 3 months ago
gli stereotipi vanno bene ...finchè sono positivi!8 fanno buona pubblicità) cmq bel video...anch'io quando stavo in america mi irritavo se vedevo in tv qualche brutto esempio di italiano.
vivailmiocane 3 months ago
Unfortunately Stereotypes hit all ethnic groups ... including US peoples :-)
yallowrosa 3 months ago
the funny thing is that in Italian "guido" means "I drive"
Marzikejinko 3 months ago
I do really love this part: 1:36
mark197ify 4 months ago
TY for up
Nice video!
saluti dall'Italia! ^^
youmarlinblutube 4 months ago
@youmarlinblutube ma hai guardato il video?! O_o
LouiseHans10 3 months ago
@LouiseHans10 si perchè?
youmarlinblutube 3 months ago
@youmarlinblutube Perché prende per il culo gli Italiani, dicendo che siamo dei falliti e che nell'ultimo secolo non abbiam combinato niente di buono. Cosa per niente vera, non capisco perché abbia fatto i complimenti a sto cretino
LouiseHans10 3 months ago
@LouiseHans10 eh allora forse hai frainteso il senso del video. È una denuncia degli stereotipi italiani nei film americani. Non ci prende per il culo, ma praticamente dice che a Hollywood si son fatto troppi film razzisti e pieni di luoghi comuni sugli italiani. In sostanza in questo video si difendono gli italiani, non dice che siamo falliti :)
youmarlinblutube 3 months ago
@youmarlinblutube Sì hai ragione, scusa... Sono imbattuta in talmente tanti video meschini che ormai sono prevenuta...
LouiseHans10 3 months ago
@LouiseHans10
ma figurati :* ciauu
youmarlinblutube 3 months ago
I heard foreign people say "italiani buona gente" pretty everywhere I went abroad. If this proverb exists, it must mean we did something right XD and we still do. we don't stink, we're not all into mafia, we CAN speak english, we could and can do things as well as others. stereotypes are dull, get to know us before u judge! and don't forget every country has something to be ashamed of or regarded as weird by others. if europe wants to stay united, we have to look past differences.
nowekant93 4 months ago 2
volete sentire a me? Andatevi a fare un panino farcito...
savino100 4 months ago
like it or not Italians invented a new way of life, worldwide!!
BEAUTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
assholes...
Do you know what RINASCIMENTO is?
spinopino 4 months ago 2
i don't believe videos produced by mafia
ThjeshtLife 4 months ago
Gli stereotipi sono come un paio di pantofole vecchie e ormai sformate, perciò molto comode. Inoltre evitano agli ignoranti di approfondire gli argomenti e di informarsi. Per la maggior parte degli statunitensi studiare la storia significa imparare a memoria i nomi in perfetta successione dei loro Presidenti. Fatto salvo le innumerevoli eccezioni, noi a scuola studiamo la battaglia di Gettysburg del 1863, loro non studiano la nostra battaglia di Solferino, le guerre Puniche poi...
ottogemona 4 months ago 7
@ottogemona Esatto, non potrei aggiungere altro. La peggior cosa poi è il NON voler informarsi apposta perché è più comodo e costa meno fatica credere negli stereotipi.
Lilla88able 1 month ago
This has been flagged as spam show
But it's true, Italians are VERY racist..... of colored. Ha.
xXPurpleLoliTranceXx 4 months ago
Gli stereotipi sono fastidiosi solo se il pregiudizio che c'è alla basa lo senti in qualche modo "vero". Personalmente penso che non siamo ne' migliori ne' peggiori di qualsiasi altro popolo e certamente non cambierò la percezione di me stressa perchè hollywood ha dipinto i miei trisavoli emigrati come dei criminali!
Amo l'Italia e gli Stati Uniti, Hollywood compreso. Baci a tutti
annalisa292 5 months ago
oh poor you!! Any italian american that i know loves mob movies and they act like wanna-be-sopranos. So shut the fuck up.
Nicksmith1482 5 months ago
@Nicksmith1482
Are you sure they are Ital-am? I know in poor blocks in USA there many mixed-blood ppl uncertain re their roots and claim to be Italian to... dunno... be kinda cool?
Whereas in EU wherever I go I see Arabians showing off the Italian flag on Tshirts, hats... I think they wish to pass as Italian, I think they want to change the image of the Italians... I do not know...
Believe me, the world is plenty of FAKE Italians...
Even some comments on UTube: in Eng and google-translated Ital.
LouiseHans10 5 months ago
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Nicksmith1482 5 months ago
@LouiseHans10 They are Italian americans! Stop whining about the hollywood all good mob movies where directed by italians not from other nations. Goodfellas- Scorsese, Casino-Scorsese, Godfather- Coppola, The sopranos- David Chase! So stop the fucking whining!
Nicksmith1482 5 months ago
@Nicksmith1482
It is just a matter of fact.
I'd never whine: wherever I go, when I say I'm Italian people say that I'm beautiful, and so my country, art, music, food...
I do not care what some poor guys invent or try desperately to convince: people who has got a brain knows Italy for what actually is.
LouiseHans10 5 months ago 31
@Nicksmith1482
all those you've mentioned are jews
If you give it two minutes' thought, you will realise that the mobster/mafia movies are based on the Sicilian mafia, which in fact is/was the jewish-Sicilian mafia in the same way the so-called 'Russian mafia' is in fact the Russian-jew mafia. To confirm this, do a little research to learn that at one point, 40 to 50 percent of Sicily was jewish. And you can find on Youtube that jews are encouraging a resurgence of Italian-jewry
BND58469 4 months ago
This should be on PBS.
goodoldazed 5 months ago
we are speking of a land of idiots as america.
BentivoglioIII 5 months ago
I hate hollywood.
LouiseHans10 5 months ago 2
we are in 2011...i think u can find an updated map....yugoslavia doesn't exist anymore
dantemutante 5 months ago 47
@dantemutante What?! Are they okay?!
RoyalKnightVIII 3 months ago
Hollywood is a jewish propaganda machinery. Blondes are depicted even worser than Italians.
addick8875 6 months ago
So, basically, you resent being portrayed as Italians from the South, which is in itself also a prejudicial attitude because not all Southeners are mafiosi either. I have always thought it funny how Italians from the North consider themselves to be so different from the rest of Italy when in other parts of Europe they are seen as the same. I mean, look at Berlusconi: short, dark skinned, balding, extravagant, and some would say mafioso... He is from Milano, not Palermo...
indgiu 6 months ago
Funny enough "Guido" is an Italian personal name of Germanic origin and the name of characters such as Guido Guinizzelli and Guido Cavalcanti, who are in that group of Italian poets who basically created the modern western literature.
saverioborghese 6 months ago
4:55 , what is the meaning of that image comparison?
qiovanni 6 months ago
@qiovanni Stereotyped black Americans (chubby faces of funny "niggers" with rhytm flowing through their veins) and stereotyped Italian Americans (fat dark skinned mafioso).
saverioborghese 6 months ago
@saverioborghese
I dunno I only see 6 people, 3 with a hat on and 3 without
qiovanni 6 months ago
@qiovanni The ones without hat are from a series depicting the Italians as mobsters in instance.
saverioborghese 6 months ago
@saverioborghese
I only see three men sitting at a table! if Italians were mobsters what is the problem in making movies about Italian mobsters? I don't understand. Italians made movies about the Mafia too, it doesn't mean that Italians are all mobsters, that is pretty obvious. Hollywood depicted SOME Italians for what they are, it isn't a work of fantasy! It's not like they're showing Italians landing on the moon or dancing Samba.
qiovanni 6 months ago
@qiovanni Anti Italianism is a widespread phenomenon in the US and several sociologists have shown that Hollywood has played a central role in it (many scientific researches and essays about do exist - but I thought some good sense could suffice). But, yes, maybe Hollywood is right, whereas good sense and sociology are wrong.
saverioborghese 6 months ago
Hollywood didn't depict some Italian Mafiosi for what they actually are with realistic movies, but it has made a huge amount of totally unrealistic movies where totally IMAGINARY mobsters, bad tempered men, buffoons, etc are LABELLED AS ITALIANS. Didn't you read the STATISTICS the video shows? Don’t you notice an enormous GAP between what the Italians are (but also what they’ve been historically) and the way they’re depicted in the popular culture products from the US?
saverioborghese 6 months ago
@saverioborghese
Italian mobsters are even worse than the ones depicted in Hollywood movies. I've never seen an Italian mobster melting a 10 y/o child in acid in a movie, but I did hear about it on the Italian news... anti-italianism is older than Hollywood, it was probably worse before. when the Italians arrived in America they were seen as aliens and now they are part of the society, more than they were before.
qiovanni 6 months ago
Singular isolated events are irrelevant to the issue, and the event you're referring to was shocking for the traditional Italian criminal cartels themselves, which historically have a code of honor differently from let's say.. the Mexican mobsters. But Sicilian mafia, Yakuza, Russian mafia, Chinese mafia, and so on apart.. psychos, mobsters, soldiers and terrorists from all over the world have made such actions.
saverioborghese 6 months ago
The issue is the gap between those cinematographic depictions and facts or even the absence of any connection between those Hollywood depictions and the actual reality.
Why don't they defame any people from which some criminal was?
You have to stuck it in your head that the vast majority of the criminals in America are far from being of Italian ancestry, yet in Hollywood "Italian" means criminal. Is this fair?
saverioborghese 6 months ago
And it seems that the Italians have done much more things in favor of the western civilizations rather than mobbing actions, after all..
Reality has really nothing to do with the way the American popular culture portray the Italians.
saverioborghese 6 months ago
And I didn't say Hollywood created anti Italianism; I said it played an important role within the phenomenon.
In fact I've rather said the very few Italian mobsters are not depicted in such movies (that's would be acceptable), but thousands negative IMAGINARY infamous and defamatory characters who have nothing to do with any kind of Italian are labeled as Italians. In this way a whole nation is defamed to entertain the audience.
saverioborghese 6 months ago
@saverioborghese
how about blowing an entire highway to kill the top antimafia judge? never seen that in a hollywood movie either.. you are too stressed about this. movies are made on Italian mobsters just because people like to watch mafia stories. do you want a movie on Italian plumbers or renaissance painters? who would go to watch it? try to reverse your point of view: maybe you are the one depicting Americans like a bunch of idiots who can't get things right...
qiovanni 6 months ago
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saverioborghese 6 months ago
@qiovanni You don’t get the point yet. Generally speaking they don't make movies on actual Italian mobsters in the same way they don't make movies on any kind of Italian. They have basically invented a cinematographic bad character and named it "the Italian" while defaming a whole nation.
This is something they inherited from some old British novel of low quality.
saverioborghese 6 months ago
It has nothing to do with our mafia but rather with a certain Puritanism and anti-Renaissance aka anti-Modern mentality that started in England several centuries ago (see the saying "The English man Italianate is the Devil incarnate"). Mafia is just the easy thing Puritans have founded in the contemporary age to defame the Italians, but it could be anything else.
saverioborghese 6 months ago
The averege American got used to that way to characterize the Italians invented by the Puritans so Hollywood gives the average American what the average American expects.
saverioborghese 6 months ago
@saverioborghese
on top of that Americans usually make movies on Italo-Americans who at the end of the day are Americans. I am pretty sure Americans know how to portrait themselves. how about Rocky or Rambo then? aren't they American heroes? Americans are also well traveled, they visit Italy a lot more than Italians visit America. they study the art and explore the food in Italy.
qiovanni 6 months ago
@qiovanni Rocky is a lowlife hero in the end. The best Hollywood allows us to be.
But if you're trying to say that we have supporters in the USA, that's certainly true, but here the point is to oppose the haters. And Hollywood played an important role in brainwashing them.
saverioborghese 6 months ago
@saverioborghese
You're right, movies are a media-type, so it's a perfect brainwashing.
exnemocpt 4 months ago
they are americans not italians...even though they have italian background...
tristanauspride 6 months ago
well many of those movies that present stereotypes are made by Italian Americans: coppola, scorsese, palminteri
indgiu 7 months ago
@indgiu
Not all Italian Americans are of Southern Italian or Sicilian background like the three men you mentioned. My paternal grandparents (and the ancestors of others in the Mississippi Delta) came from Ancona province northeast of Rome. Italian American culture as portrayed in "The Godfather", "Raging Bull", "Jersey Shore", etc. is totally alien to us. God bless.
cbalducc 7 months ago
@cbalducc Yeah, people always fail to see that. Italian Americans' ancestors were, for the most, from southern Italy so I understand Americans fail to understand Italy is a very diverse country with many differences from north to south. Not to mention the center part of Italy: we're like...well, never considered. I'm from Le Marche too, but from the province of Macerata. I wish my grandparents had moved to USA too, I've always envied Italian Americans (but in a good way). Greeting from Italy!
Eskimodeth 6 months ago
@cbalducc Actually that's completely alien to any Italian. All the Italians have always been badly protrayed in the anglophone world. The first Italians to reach Australia were from the north (Val Camonica in instance which is very close to Switzerland), yet they were characterized in the same bad ways the Usans would characterize the southerners. The Sicilians were just used to add the mafioso stereotype to the rest. With your Le Marche you're not going to get any better historically speaking.
saverioborghese 6 months ago
@indgiu Also many of the actors playing in those movies are Italians of origin. What you have to get is that Hollywood doesn't allow to represent the Italians in any way but the stereotypical one. So, if you're an actor of Italian origin, you either represent the sterotypical Italian or you do not work. Also better if you happen to be particularly dark skinned, short and bold..
Give a look to the ethnical background of the actual film makers.
saverioborghese 6 months ago
Bravo..i am Italian American from NY n I approve this message.great video.ha.~pace
DigiLife4eva 8 months ago
eccellente!
ciccillvs 8 months ago
It's true: Americans are mocking Italians in an unfair way. You should send the Mafia after them!
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