The Unpredictable Future of Italy

What is the Future of Italy?

[hser]

Since I'm getting so many comments about it I'll say here that I never once in the video called Giorgia Meloni or her government fascist, I called her populist. I'm saying in the future I wouldn't be surprised if Italy elected a fascist or much more anti-global government

[nathanseper]

Italy, especially the Southern part, is an example of a low-trust society. The distrust between governments, regions, and even neighbors is what leads to political dysfunction, corruption, and a large organized crime racket. Faith in institutions and a believe in national unity are extremely important to the success of a nation. I think you talked about this a bit in your Somalia video.

[matteomoliterni]

As an italian, regionalism is kind of shoehorned as a reason for political instability (at least in modern times), since tv became widely available italy became culturally quite homogenous. Still, small supply chains and local corruption exisr and are a problem but voters broadly don't actively care about regionalism anymore.

[spagooter]

I’d like to visit Italy one day, I couldn’t imagine just casually seeing architecture from the Roman times when the oldest thing in my city here in the US is probably a tree.

[fabiofilippone]

i'm a southern italian and a good 75-80% of what you said in the video is correct, but for exemple nowdays italians already exist, we have a lot of cultural differences and sub-languages going from sicily, heavily influenced by the arabic domination, to the northern regions that talks in a fair bit in languages like austrian or german, we are really a cultural mix but at the same we all feel italians, every part of italy has or had something in common at some point and our history is not really that different, starting from the roman empire

[federicofornaciari]

Correction: technically Florence is in the central part of italy and is absolutely not located in the Po' valley, infact is divided from it by the Appennini mountains

[thesuperintendent]

I love how h0ser is making Geo-politics and somehow manages to repeatedly find Breaking bad/Better Call Saul memes and quotes into each video .

[lucadicunto]

As an Italian, I have faith in my generation (namely the one of younger people). I know it sounds naïve, but the Italian younger generation is more aware of Italy's structural issues thanks to information channels like YouTube. Thus, new political parties that propose structural reforms may rise in the future and improve the state. Italy has an incredible potential: it just has to get its administration working properly

[fadingblack]

2:54 ok but is no one gonna talk about that cute Serbian pup, ITS SO

[EnclaveEmily]

I'm at the point now where I don't even know what fascism is. Every time I hear the accusation, it means nothing, and it just makes me take things less seriously.

[alessandrodelogu]

As an Italian this video is interesting, and correct on some aspects, but I find it hasty and superficial. It is true that our governments expire faster than yoghurts, but you forget that all the governments of Italy from 1948 until 1992 came from the same party, the centre-right party Democrazia Cristiana. This granted a certain level of stability. Tangentopoli is not a generalized term for political corruption, but a specific event: a huge corruption scandal in the 1990s that destroyed both the Democrazia Cristiana and their main rival, the Italian Communist Party. The end of these two political giants marked the end of the First Republic and the start of the Second, the age of Silvio Berlusconi. Now we are currently in the Third Republic.
You make it look like all the Italian culture came from the North, while for the South you mention only food and mafia. This isn't true. It is true that the mafias, because there are many of them, came first from Southern Italy, but now they are spread to all the nation. About the culture, you forget the Sicilian School, the start of the first Italian poetry, great writers like Luigi Pirandello, painters like Antonello da Messina, musicians like Domenico Cimarosa. All from the South.
Don't worry too much about Italy. After two thousand years of invasions, foreign dominations, plagues, wars and endless disgraces both human and natural we have become specialists of survival. Our country is a mess, but we are used to it and we know how to move through it.
P. S. Italy was unified in 1861, not 1871.

[nicolasdisanto]

Man, as an Italian this made me smile while it got me pretty sad at the same time. Everything you said is more or less true, in the end is a blessing and a curse. I've lived in London, UK for 5 years and I while I love the effectiveness and the precision of the British I'm glad | got to be a kid in Southern Italy. I'm planning to move away again this 2023 as adult life isn't great here but I know that, deep down in my heart, I would always love to do what I do and to be what I am in my home country, by the beach living the slow life.

[DavideProfilo]

4:34 it takes a simple Google search to see this isn't true, Italy is one of the EU contributors, not beneficiaries, it gives more money to the EU than it gets back

[tizanikandothers]

As an Italian who lives in rome (literally on the middle) I can confirm in Italy we are too busy hating each other's instead of trying to change the situation bruh poor Italy
Edit: about young students traveling anywhere other than Italy I can confirm WE CAN'T GET A JOB because there are too many old ass idiots just sitting and getting a lot of money's and young people like us cant do anything other than going away

[lorenzoal]

A minor correction: Italy unified in 1861, not 1871

[bobobounlosode]

As a Tuscanian, i’m deeply offended that you put Florence as part of Northern Italy.
The center is the third piece of the country just like the three colors of the flag

[dummer_kido]

As a person that lives in northern Italy, I see so many southern Italians over here, but I am not complaining

[chapo]

I was in Sicily this summer and got to know a lot of the locals whilst traveling the island. Corruption (mostly funded by the mafia), lack of jobs, and political instability were the points they brought up as the major issues facing them.
On a separate note: I HIGHLY advise visiting Sicily. It's a melting pot of Spanish, Norman, Arab and Italian cultures. An amazing place with great people.

[yk]

Any Italians that I've met have always said that they were Italian before whatever region they were from so I don't think Italy would break up because the people seem to be too similar to one another. If Italy did break up I think there would be a huge drive to reunite the peninsula under one banner.

[robertozamcu]

I was born and I still live in Italy, I just wanted to say that most of the Italian and non Italian teenagers that live here say and promise they will go from Italy once they turn 18 ( or around that time of life ). I also want to do so, because we already know that Italys economy is literally gonna collapse ( like half of the people don’t pay taxes and services suck, THEY SUCK. ) The government likes to innovate only one city mostly: that’s Milan, It’s like they don’t care about the others. The government is so bad that it even got to literal 12 years olds worrying about their future.