I came here with rather small knowledge about italian mentality. Yes I used to travel here couple of times but this is completely different thing than live here, learn and undertake active project in italian society. I come from central-eastern Europe so my view of normal behaviour differs much from here. I am more closed and need time to feel calm and more open. Of course I am talking in general but we are more analyzing types of personalities and we don't trust so quickly. The other thing is closeness, usually we need more space talking to someone, we don;t touch people during chat. Of course I have known that here will be completely different but of course knowledge is a different thing than practice. I need some time to open myself. In my country there is lots of stereotypes connected with italian mentality and atributes. Generally speaking stereotypes are harmful for each nation but there is always some percentage of truth in everything because this is not a lie that lots of polish people overdose alcohol and we can't fight with this:) the same situation italians will always be for us "pasta people" with too much gel on their hair. One of well-known italian „feature” are their artistic skills, specifically drama skills. Italians are great actors, maybe because they are more able to show their emotions, are more dynamic, and more expresive. Ironically they are known as great actors in each life issue. I can observe that in the televison where popular shows are funny, faked mascarades, in normal life during normal arguments and mostly on the football pitch. Italians are popular football actors and each football is like tremendous drama spectacle. In Poland we are alsways laughing how italians are pretending that something hurts them. But it has its own climate. In the beginning I was analyzing everything I saw here. At a first sight some behaviours were quite shallow for me. Too much of kindness and everything was „tutto bene” even though it wasn’t in reality. I was a little bit irritated about it cause in my tradition it is better to use some euphemisms like „everything is like it used to be”, „there are no changes is my life”, or that is rather bad and of course it affacts our eastern mentallity, more melancholic type. I got used to kindness and what at the beginning I called shallow I transfered it cause it makes italians more optimistic. The thing I haven’t still changed opinion about is that italians are estets and quite snobish about it. This is the thing I can understand because this is a country with the most beatiful architecture, artistic heritage. The most popular fashion companies were born here. People pay lots of attention on their look and to look trendy. It is nice to observe beatiful people who presents like butterflies in somtimes grey reality. Italy is breathtaking even though the weather is not apropriate. It will always be in other countries the land of mafia, luxury , pasta and Toto Cotugno but it is so various in each area that I can’t generalize. Allora, grazie per attenzione. Ciao

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