I was just wondering as a student of Italian and an Italian background has the Italian culture changed much within the last 20 years and if so how has it changed?

Hi Jessica They are still very family oriented for the most part families are very close. I quess in that respect it is the same and has not changed. However the Americanization of Italy and most of Europe is sad and I can sat that because I am American. We still love to go there anyway. I would recommended you do the same someday it is fun the Italians are great. Ciao Steve and Ginny Jessica wrote: > I was just wondering as a student of Italian and an Italian background > has the Italian culture changed much within the last 20 years and if > so how has it changed?

On Thu, 02 May 2002 01:06:32 GMT, Steve Della Rocchetta <sdr12198@pacbell.net> wrote: >Hi Jessica >They are still very family oriented for the most part families are very >close. Yes, this is very true, even though family bonds aren't tight as once anymore. Anyways, most young people stay still at home until married and doens't go to live very far from home (at least in the North, in the South it's different because people tend to migrate northwards). >I quess in that respect it is the same and has not changed. However >the Americanization of Italy and most of Europe is sad and I can say that >because I am American. We still love to go there anyway. I would >recommended you do the same someday it is fun the Italians are great. Yes, we are ;) Italy is more americanized (or 'globalized', as everybody likes to say nowadays) but still has its own peculiarities and idiosyncrasies, as I can easily see whenever I get to speak to people living or who lived abroad. Ciao Fabio

I have read that there has been a considerable change in the business communities that has brought about some other changes in living there these days. There have been a considerable number of Italian-Americans who have gone to Italy to work as managers of many of the American businesses (and their Italian competitors) who changed work practices so that two hour lunches followed by a nap before going back to work about 4pm are no longer the norm. And I notice they recently elected a self-made billionaire as leader of the government (sounds very American like to me 8-). Ciao, Ack. Jessica wrote: > I was just wondering as a student of Italian and an Italian background > has the Italian culture changed much within the last 20 years and if > so how has it changed?

On 30 Apr 2002 20:49:16 -0700, jessica.lanzafame@students.vu.edu.au (Jessica) wrote: >I was just wondering as a student of Italian and an Italian background >has the Italian culture changed much within the last 20 years and if >so how has it changed? How it has changed is a very difficult question, especially for me. Being an Italian, I can't see "from the inside" things which are probably much clearer to a foreign visitor. Anyways, I can assure you Italy now is very different than 20 years ago, like any other Western European country is :)

On Thu, 02 May 2002 10:33:05 GMT, XXXparrif_ibbXXX@yahoo.com (Fabio Parri) wrote: >How it has changed is a very difficult question, especially for me. >Being an Italian, I can't see "from the inside" things which are >probably much clearer to a foreign visitor. Anyways, I can assure you >Italy now is very different than 20 years ago, like any other Western >European country is :) Oops, forgot to say that any question is welcome :)))