





Un certo AJ Costantini, italoamericano discendente: "Sadly, most Americans probably think of The Sopranos, Goodfellas or The Godfather. While a great tv show and fantastic movies, they portray a stereotype of Italians to Americans, one of organized crime. I wish American people would think of Galileo, Bernoulli's principle, Enrico Fermi, Michelangelo, Da Vinci or the Renaissance when they thought of Italians. Or that we are great lovers, make fast cars and worship art. We love life, food, drink and most of all PEOPLE. Good conversation and a cacophony of sound are right up our alleys, with a pot of sauce on the stove top on a Sunday with family. I am Italian American, 50% to be exact, but most people here in my home country, the USA, would simply call me "white." But I am proud to be Italian, the emphasis we place on family and how much we have done to help our beloved new country. We worked hard to assimilate to American culture from the start and are proud Americans. Ciao! " Carol Lloyd Neill: "I can't find any quantitative research; however Pew Research has done research into Italian's view of Americans, and they top the list of nations with a favorable view of Americans at 78% in 2014 (up from 70% in 2002). Italy is the 6th most visited country by Americans (the UK and France are the only European nations visited more often) so it seems Americans who travel internationally have a positive view of Italians. Personally, I find Italians warm and friendly. They are justifiably proud of their culture, history, design and culinary skills. Since attitudes are built on personal experience, I'll share one anecdote: on a recent trip, my daughter and I stopped at a small family-run take-out stand near the waterfront in Salerno. Learning we were Americans, the proprietess launched into a long, animated conversation with us. Despite extremely limited understanding of each others' language, we learned her heart had been broken by an American during the war, but she didn't hold that against other Americans. We agreed men of any nationality could be cads, but in the end, they were still worth the heartache. And she beamed when we pronounced her fried calamari the best we'd ever had (it was!)."








anche da chi ha subito magari dei torti, tipo Amanda Knox, non ho mai letto una sola riga di insulto verso l'Italia. Molti invece qua generalizzano, se qualche americano gli ha fatto un torto (cfr. la vicenda del Cermis) diventano tutti cattivi in automatico, un po' come i francesi tutti sporchi, i tedeschi tutti nazisti, ecc.





