Culturally, how different are Italy and France?

Deleted Items · 23-08-2013 3:52pm #1

I'm not too sure myself, would like to hear what you think.

Lapin · 23-08-2013 3:53pm

Ask Zinedine Zidane

23-08-2013 3:54pm

I always think of the french as being aloof, arrogant and snobbish.
I think of italians as warm, friendly, vivacious.

MadsL · 23-08-2013 3:55pm

6 whole cultures, whereas the UK and Ireland are only 2.6 cultures different.

the purple tin · 23-08-2013 3:55pm

Well, they both really like good food and wine for a start.

Celly Smunt · 23-08-2013 3:57pm

Italy

France

shanered · 23-08-2013 3:57pm

Pizza Vs Croissants, simples!

MadsL · 23-08-2013 3:57pm

Jake1 wrote: »

I always think of the french as being aloof, arrogant and snobbish.

Lies. I saw this documentary about the French.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yjNbcKkNY

Son Of A Vidic · 23-08-2013 3:57pm

Jake1 wrote: »

I always think of the french as being aloof, arrogant and snobbish.
I think of italians as warm, friendly, vivacious.

And they have better food.

MadsL · 23-08-2013 3:59pm

Celly Smunt wrote: »

Italy

France

Didn't the Italians surrender and switch sides in that one.

enda1 · 23-08-2013 3:59pm

Both countries are so regionally diverse that it's an impossible question to answer.
Corsicans are more culturally similar to Italians than Parisians.
North West Italians are closer in culture to the South French than to the Pugliese.
Italians from the South Tirol are more Swiss than Italian.
Sicilians are more North African than Milanese.

It's a complex question with a useless answer, sorry!

23-08-2013 3:59pm

They are both big countries with differences within them never mind between them.

Sicily Vs Normandy?
Lyon Vs Turin?

enda1 · 23-08-2013 3:59pm

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

And they have better food.

French food is far better. Fact!

Karl Stein · 23-08-2013 4:00pm

66,000,000 French people?

A shower of bastards.

61,500,000 Italians?

A shower of bastards.

No difference.

darkdubh · 23-08-2013 4:00pm

Jake1 wrote: »

I always think of the french as being aloof, arrogant and snobbish.
I think of italians as warm, friendly, vivacious.

Having dated both a French and Italian girl in the past I can verify there is some truth to this.

pundy · 23-08-2013 4:01pm

the french are SLIGHTLY more bastardy than the italians?

Surveyor11 · 23-08-2013 4:01pm

"Bon giorno" versus "bonjour", can't think of anything else

anncoates · 23-08-2013 4:04pm

Unequivocally different, albeit with a marked convergence on urgent cultural mores such as tourist arse-pinching, sexual harassment. petty theft and driving dangerously around fountains on shit mopeds

Banjo String · 23-08-2013 4:05pm

The Italians have pizza.

French eat snails and frogs and feckin Horses.

Elbaston · 23-08-2013 4:10pm

Celly Smunt wrote: »

Italy

France

Can't believe sht like this still persists. Germany plowed through anywhere attached to it and many that weren't.
(basically bringing a flamethrower to a fist-fight).

2. Napolean.

Son Of A Vidic · 23-08-2013 4:11pm

enda1 wrote: »

French food is far better. Fact!

Arse! I want real food not art.

MadsL · 23-08-2013 4:13pm

Cathal Cloch wrote: »

66,000,000 French people?

A shower of bastards.

61,500,000 Italians?

A shower of bastards.

No difference.

I hear you're a racist now, Father.

23-08-2013 4:13pm

Fine italian wine is like liquid velvet slipping down your throat.

( havent had it in yrs, but I can remember how good...)

MadsL · 23-08-2013 4:14pm

darkdubh wrote: »

Having dated both a French and Italian girl in the past I can verify there is some truth to this.

Which was more hairy?

Madam · 23-08-2013 4:14pm

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Arse! I want real food not art.

http://www.lecreuset.co.uk/Coq-au-Vin.aspx

Good hearty French food......

They also make damn fine cookwear;)

MadsL · 23-08-2013 4:16pm

I'd actually heard Scottish women were fond of Coq.

Madam · 23-08-2013 4:19pm

MadsL wrote: »

I'd actually heard Scottish women were fond of Coq.

Wouldn't know - I'm not Scottish;) They do however love the French, in fact they have a thing here called the 'Auld Alliance' which goes wayyyy back to Mary Queen of Scots days:)

MadsL · 23-08-2013 4:20pm

Madam wrote: »

Wouldn't know - I'm not Scottish;)

Where do you stand on the Coq issue?

kylith · 23-08-2013 4:21pm

The French are aloof knobs.
The Italians are uncouth knobs, but their food is better. And so is their architecture. And their music. And their men are hotter.

Elbaston · 23-08-2013 4:22pm

3. Europes biggest army.

and whey hey hey more armour than any other European country

Madam · 23-08-2013 4:24pm

MadsL wrote: »

Where do you stand on the Coq issue?

Oh, I like it fine - when I can get a good one that is:)

Micky Dolenz · 23-08-2013 4:28pm

Celly Smunt wrote: »

Italy

France

That kind of thing reminds me how badly we were taught history of the WW II in school. The French influence in the war was massive and is normally grossly understated.

The Italians cost them selves and the Allies countless lives and when beaten, after a bloody invasion of Scilly and drive on to Roma, they jumped sides as soon as they surrounded.

biko · 23-08-2013 4:29pm

Both places has fantastic food, lovely weather, friendly country folk and skiing in the winter.
What's not to like.

Paramite Pie · 23-08-2013 4:30pm

As mentioned before, the regional differences in these countries make comparisons difficult.

Someone living in Brittany in France has more cultural similarities with a person in Wales or Cornwall than they do with Parisians, nevermind the Italians!! Even their language is similar to Welsh and is not related French.:D

And Italy has a long historical period of city-states and autonomous regions. Each region takes alot of pride in their regions such has Florence or Genoa. While their both Italian, they won't consider themselves to be the same culturally/historically.;)

MadsL · 23-08-2013 4:51pm

I hear both of them are fond of ze Germans.

enda1 · 23-08-2013 4:59pm

It's funny the way on an Irish site the way so many of the cheap snipes and snide remarks are just regurgitate English propaganda.

Why the bad will towards France, a fantastic and beautiful place?

Deleted Items · 23-08-2013 5:01pm

enda1 wrote: »

It's funny the way on an Irish site the way so many of the cheap snipes and snide remarks are just regurgitate English propaganda.

Why the bad will towards France, a fantastic and beautiful place?

That's because Ireland and England are culturally the same.

Agricola · 23-08-2013 5:12pm

Have yet to have an experience of a snobby, arrogant Italian with a superiority complex in the retail / restaurant business. Im sure theres plenty of them, but I havent met 'em.

France on the other hand.......

GLaDOS · 23-08-2013 5:12pm

All I can think of now is Hank Scorpio

MadsL · 23-08-2013 5:15pm

Deleted Items wrote: »

That's because Ireland and England are culturally the same.

Not quite, as I may have mentioned they are 2.6 cultures apart, whereas France and Italy are 6 whole cultures apart.

MonstaMash · 23-08-2013 5:21pm

I Francesi non sono altro che formaggio puzzolente mangiare scimmie resa

Nodin · 23-08-2013 5:25pm

Has this not ended in comparing the wimminz yet? For jaysus sake lads....3 pages in.....

Micky Dolenz · 23-08-2013 5:26pm

Nodin wrote: »

Has this not ended in comparing the wimminz yet? For jaysus sake lads....3 pages in.....

3 pages in?

40 posts per page fwiw.

MadsL · 23-08-2013 5:30pm

Nodin wrote: »

Has this not ended in comparing the wimminz yet? For jaysus sake lads....3 pages in.....

Nearly 25k posts and you still are in n00b mode :eek:

Rubeter · 23-08-2013 5:31pm

Elbaston wrote: »

Can't believe sht like this still persists. Germany plowed through anywhere attached to it and many that weren't.
(basically bringing a flamethrower to a fist-fight).

2. Napolean.

Not forgetting Verdun, a defence that would have put a Spartan to shame.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 23-08-2013 5:31pm

Jake1 wrote: »

I always think of the french as being aloof, arrogant and snobbish.
I think of italians as warm, friendly, vivacious.

Are you basing that on stereotypes or have you spent time in both countries?

Nodin · 23-08-2013 5:33pm

MadsL wrote: »

Nearly 25k posts and you still are in n00b mode :eek:

...at the end one realises that one is only beginning, grasshopper.

dilallio · 23-08-2013 5:34pm

A French spy & an Italian spy are captured.

Their captors come into the cell and grab the French spy and tie his hands behind a chair in the next room. They torture hime for 2 hours before he answers all questions and gives up all of his secrets.

The captors throw the French spy back into the cell and grab the Italian spy. They tie his hands behind the chair and begin torturing. 4 hours go by and the spy isn't talking. Then 8 hours, then 16 and after 24 hours they give up and through him back into the cell.

The French spy is impressed and ask him how he managed not to talk. The Italian spy responds, "I wanted to!, but I couldn't move my hands!".

MadsL · 23-08-2013 5:38pm

The results of a poll made by United Nations came out. The question was: "Please, tell us honestly what is your opinion about the abundance vs. scarcity of food in the rest of the world." The results were as follows:

The Europeans did not understand what was meant by "scarcity".
The Africans did not understand "abundance."
The Americans asked the meaning of the "rest of the world".
The Chinese, puzzled, asked for an explanation of "opinion".
Meanwhile, in the Italian Parliament, they are still debating the meaning of "honestly".

23-08-2013 5:40pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Are you basing that on stereotypes or have you spent time in both countries?

No, been to both countries . I based it on the opinions I formed when in each country, is that ok??

recylingbin · 23-08-2013 5:42pm

The frogs are good at cheese, the wops are good at pizza.
That's my understanding of it anyway.

Culturally, how different are Italy and France?

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