Italian collectivism vs. American individualism

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[Rinbor]

Si..e no!…anche noi italiani siamo un po’ diversi ..dal nord al sud dello “stivale “ abbiamo un modo diverso di ospitalità e senso della collettività…pur essendo uniti da un un’unica bandiera sfoggiamo un nostro passato chi proviene da dominazioni marinare chi da culture montane e comunque basta osservare le città o i paesi da come sono e dove sono stati costruiti per conoscere le differenze…e poi …con pregi e difetti siamo senza ombra di dubbio unici!!!.🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹 grazie!!!

[manuelamonacelli]

Infatti da italiana ho sofferto abbastanza il dover affrontare il lock down a Londra (che è fondamentalmente un'America wannabe), dove ognuno pensava solo al suo e pochissimi al bene comune 😅😅

[comedici]

I think this Is a stereotype ... I m italian and in these harsh time people are very nervous and selfish .. i think It was for the covid period too

[amberfur]

No hang on… we are the masters of selfishness and individualism. A lot of people don’t pay taxes, that’s why those who are honest must pay such high taxes. Furthermore I see in American movies they believe in communities, good neighbourhood… I can barely say who lives in my building.

[frahu]

In Italy you have liability with your house insurance. For all family

[justinnamuco]

Americans like to talk about "Western" civilisation. "Western" civilisation? more like ultra geographically western civilisation. Heck even the term fascism, which is from Italian fascismo, means collectivism. Italians are very, very "Eastern". Mediterraneans in a way care a lot more about community etc etc than their northern counterparts. It is perhaps Protestantism that caused this much (probably too much) assumption of individualism. Ancient Greeks were not Protestant enough, let's just say, for this trait to be considered a criterion for being "Western".

[mrgiove]

E io che mi lamento che siamo troppo individualisti anche qui in Italia...

[MelMeltalks]

You ate this !!! Like that hit home for me.

[csfischer]

You touched on something at the end that everyone is missing.... "because the government 'told' them to". Collectivism leads to authoritarianism!

[Andrea-ljjg]

Secondo me tutti gli italiani che hanno supinamente accettato di chiudersi in casa per mesi e rinunciare alle proprie libertà personali solo perchè l'autorità politica lo aveva deciso, non lo hanno fatto per "il bene comune" ma perchè o non avevano il coraggio di ribellarsi o per via della classica abitudine 100% italiana di saltare sul carro del vincitore, visto che la maggioranza era pro-riduzione delle proprie libertà personali... davvero triste :\

[ModernMusicNo]

Hi. My Dad is half Italian from Napoli. I spent my summer school vacation in Scario in South Italy. I am ashamed of the Italian response to Covid it shows many are pro tyranny so I agree but we need nuance. Let's face US blue states we just as bad as Italy. I live here in England we didn't even have vax passports and many said no to stupid masks. Also I have many friends in the Italian speaking Swiss Canton near Milan who are way more freedom loving than most Americans and never let their government bully them. At least you can travel Europe without a clot shot (I studied Medical Microbiology at University and will debate the science). Last time I checked you still need a clot shot to visit US or Canada still even to Florida.

[mukkyace]

America is community oriented. Stop lying & obfuscating

[Selandir]

Americans and indiviualism LOL americans are the opposite of that

[rogerrabbit]

Sei una donna intelligente, osservi ciò che ti accade attorno..fallo capire anche ai tuoi connazionali che pensano di essere i numeri uno ☝️..il mondo è bello perché è vario, culture e mentalità diverse