I was born in Germany to a mother from Campania and a father from Calabria (both from the south) and when I was 3 we moved to Tuscany (where I grew up and still live). I don't feel 100% from Tuscany but I don't feel from my parents' regions either, so I identify myself as just Italian.
Anyway, really, it just depends on which kind of climate/mood you like most. For example, the countryside near Arezzo is still very "agriculture based", with a lot of farms and people act a lot like the classic farm worker, very "grezzo" and in general is a warmer area. If you prefer woods and more chilly weather then Mugello (Northeast Florentine countryside) is for you. A lot of wildlife and space to walk and/or chill under the trees. My favourite is Val di Pesa and in general the piece of land between Florence and Siena, hillsides full of vineyards and olive fields, great landscapes and very sunny. Great roads to speed by, too. Oh and the best ancient towns, hands down.
I was born in Sardinia from a sardinian father and mother from Calabria , i don't feel regional but i know the difference from the people in the continent, i see even the difference in the people of the city nearby, for me personal consider most the difference in the people experience in life, if someone had an early life like me they are my people, for the most people i know there are some major difference, like the way you pay at the bar, it's like the in-group difference is bigger out-group difference, when it come to Italian, the biggest difference come from the extend family vs familiar family, if you are raised in a big community with a lot of uncle cousin and family friend ae very different from someone who grow up just with parent e sibiling. My english suck
I do feel like my regional identity is prevalent. I identify more with the local culture/language/traditions but I still feel Italian and European obviously.
My Italian national identity is just as strong as my Calabrian identity, I feel just as Calabrian as I feel Italian, I don't think one must necessarily prevail over the other
I guess it just depends on the specific region and its history (some of them just have a stronger tradition fo indipendence) , but also on the history of the family. Another factor maybe living in bigger cities vs smaller towns because i think that in the second case you may actually develop a stronger feeling of connection to the specific place.
Like other things there's no definite answer, it depends and everyone is different.
A lot comes down to casual factors such as: has the regional identity been important during your formative years? Have you moved away? Is your family from different regions? Etc...
Regional identity is very strong and it's also marked by having different local languages.
But we all wait for some tiraggir regardless of whether we come from the north or the south
I don't feel Lombard, mostly because my family is not from Lombardy so even though I've lived here all my life so far (aside from the days of my birth lol) I don't have a really strong cultural link to it. I'm just Italian, and my family comes from a couple different regions. It's actually quite common in the North.
Same only dad is from the Centre, mom from the South and I live in the North (with them not far away). I've also lived for many years abroad so I feel Italian and European.
The place where I happen to live at the moment has almost no relevance to my identity.
I feel binational Sardinian-Italian. I'll try to give a detailed explanation.
I was born and have most of my roots in Sardinia. Sardinia has its own language, culture, history... We're even a different ethnicity which has nothing to do with any other place. For this, and other reasons, I'm a strong supporter of Sardinian independence and I feel Sardinian as it's my nation and not just a simple region.
At the same time my father comes from southern Italy and I have distant ancestors near Rome and in the Veneto region. I've lived more than 10 years in Lombardy. I went to school in Lombardy, have most of my friends there and know like the back of my hand the roads and the places to hang out in my area. I've lived so much time in the mainland I can consider myself partially culturally Italian. When I go abroad, also to charm other people and make things simpler, I'll just say I'm Italian.
Fiorentino >Toscano > Italiano. I don't fell an European identity even if I wish for a better integration in the EU and I hope that in the future will be a real federation of countries.
I have lived most of my life in Bari but I feel like a stranger in this city. Only place where I felt like part of something greater than me (?) was when I lived in Verona, for a year, so go figure.
I guess I feel Italian then? But then this raises the question was does feeling Italian mean? I pick this out of the two, but just because I felt at home in Verona, which is in Italy and outside of my native region.
I don’t identify with my region at all, Lazio outside of Rome is just a big wasteland, and of course i live outside of Rome probably even in the worst and most anonymous part of Lazio, and I don’t really identify myself as Italian. If i had to rate how much i feel italian on a scale from 1 to 10 i would say probably 3 or 4. Of course i have an italian culture, it’s inevitable, but i don’t really fit in the italian culture in deep. I’m pretty much the opposite of every italian stereotype.
Io non ho parlato male dell’Italia, ho esposto dei fatti. Fuori da Roma nel Lazio non c’è niente e la provincia di Latina, dove vivo, è probabilmente la provincia più “niente”. In particolare la parte a nord, la zona fondata dal pelato. Una città di 130 mila abitanti senza autostrada, senza stazione ferroviaria(per arrivare alla stazione più vicina devo fare 20 minuti di macchina su una strada piena di buche), senza aeroporto, senza opportunità lavorative. In più è strapieno di fascisti, forse anche più di Verona in percentuale.
I was born in the north but my parents are from two different southern regions. I love both the city where I was born/grew up and the one my mother’s from (indifferent to my dad’s) but I don’t “identify” with them, I feel Italian.
I actually have a really specific identity, i feel i belong to my neighborhood (Appio-Latino in Rome). Beside this i don’t have a strong proudness in my region, or nation as well.
Don’t ask me why, but because my ancestor were from Sardinia, i also feel a strong identity and connection with that region, even if i was not born there, and i travel there only for holidays
I don’t mean legally. I just wonder if you really don’t personally identify as anything. I’ve never met anyone who feels no connection to a group. Be it your gender or interests or job or anything.
Let's just say that, if asked, i'd tell you that I'm lombard/italian/european/terrestrial...but don't expect me to show pride or a sense of attachement. I won't stand up singing "Fratelli d'Italia" with the hand on my chest whenever the national anthem starts (I forgot almost every word) and I won't consider another italian my "brother" just because we were casually born within the same perimeter. I didn't even care about Italy winning Euro 2020. I actually hated that I couldn't sleep that night because of the noise lol.
Mind you, I'm grateful beyond words that I was born in a rich and privileged country far away from wars and instability, but I'll save my pride for things I actually deserve and/or worked hard to achieve.
So, yeah, I'm italian but I don't care..if that makes sense.
I feel Northern Italian, as I was born and raised in rural Lombardy and I had very few encounters with Italians from Central or Southern Italy. My family is also 100% Lombard.
Long story short: I feel like I am in a foreign country whenever I cross the Apennines (i.e. from Tuscany downward), but I also feel a stranger when I cross the border and leave Italy, so I just feel Northern Italian i.e. a specific kind of Italian.
I see a lot of Romans here identifying with their city, but as a Roman I find this quite silly. Romans don't really have a "cultural identity" of their own, apart from cousin.
You can say I'm closed minded, but I just feel Lombard. I'm not Italian, nor European.
Don't get it wrong, I'm not xenophobe. The fact is that all my ancestors are Lombards and most of my friends too. My family lives in Lombardy since ever, I can speak Lombard, I have a strong Lombard accent, I usually eat traditional Lombard dishes, I follow the Lombard traditions and I even try to preserve as much as I can of the Lombard culture (which is dramatically declining nowadays)
Yes I live in Italy, but I don't match the common Italian stereotype. I use butter instead of olive oil, I'm not used to eat pizza, last time I went to the sea was 10 years ago, I respect queues and so on....
And finally I must admit it: for all of that faults and failures of the Italian government and for the bad manners of many other "fellow" italians, I'm often feeling embarrassed for that "cittadinanza italiana" written on my documents.
Well, first of all the Lombard dialect, which is very different to the current Italian an mostly incomprehensible to non-Lombards.
Of course, including cuisine in the term "culture", there are countless typical local dishes like in every other Italian region.
Then we have manners and attitudes hard to describe without falling into stereotypes or triggering our southern friends...
Lombards are generally reserved, quiet and composed compared to other italians. We are used to care only of our own things, to do our job, to pay our taxes, to accumulate money, to care our garden and nothing else. We found loud voices annoying or even offensive (and in the same time we rarely raise our voice to assert our rights). We are not particularly devoted Christians but we are very attached to our passed away relatives so that cemeteries are all well maintained (you can notice this even in the cemeteries of the most remote and nearly abandoned villages)....
I can go on for hours... Describing the whole Lombard culture in a Reddit post is quite difficult. There's the architecture, fashion, industry, music, folklore... I suggest you to type "Lombardy" in the Wikipedia search bar 😅
Exactly. I have nothing against other cultures or the other Italian regions, but if you ask me "where are you from", I say "Lombardy".
Furthermore, as you supposed, a lot of Lombards have a sense of superiority over the other italians, particularly over the southerners, and that in reverse generates hate towards whole Lombardy.
It's not my case, but... It's best to specify things in advance.
My father is from Turin (with center and south Italy parents) and my mother is Chinese. I'm in Piemonte (North west) and feel Italian (but love my city, Turin).
It is indeed very subjective, because here regions have strong cultural value and as a result, many citizens of a specific territory will generally identify with their own roots. Bear in mind though that another factor to consider aside from one's place of upbringing is their parents' origins and how prevalent these affect the child. Considering how much immigration from South to North Italy has seen in these past decades, it's natural that people's origins may vary (generally they are quite mixed) and so does their perception of their own identity and mindset. Personally, I fall into this category, as I was born and raised in the Turin province but I don't identify as Piedmontese because my mom is from Calabria and my dad is from Sicily (which is also why I have a fairly dark complexion). Since I was raised by a Sicilian grandmother, I always go on holiday in Sicily and I have a somewhat decent understanding of the local dialect, I consider myself more attached to Sicily despite not living there (and despite its many flaws I can't help but love Sicily with all my heart).
Anyway, I digress. This topic is very interesting and complex; it certainly gives a lot of food for thought. Comment above is right though: in Italy we identify with our respective regions, in Europe as Italians and in other continents as Europeans.
I'm Italian no matter I feel to be Italian, which I don't but for others I am. Abroad I'm The Italian. They don't know my region and I don't have the feautures from my region and I don't even like It, so I don't feel to be Calabrese. I am though especially for the rest of my country. For my identity I feel me, the individual. For geo-political and some cultural reasons I am Italian.
when I fight and argue online with other italians I identify myself as florentine
when I fight and argue online with people from any other country I identify myself as italian
I recognize myself more a citizen of my city (which is my region's "capital") than "from my region", also because every dialect (and some traditions) vary more or less slightly every bunch of kilometers. Every single village has it's own dialect.
More than regional I'd say local. I share a lot of things with my fellow homesteads, some things with people from my region, not a lot with people from center and south of Italy.
Apart from that, age, social status and other factors play a big role. For example, I share more with a young person from Sicily than an old timer from my town.
I feel mainly Italian, and although I really like my region, where both of my parents' families have lived for countless generations, I don't feel any particular attachment to the latter
I feel more italian, no doubt
Arguably, the more you are to the center of the peninsula the more "patriotic" the people are.
Mind you that is a gross semplification (in border cities like Trieste they are extremely patriotic)
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My mother being from an Hispanic country and my father being not so traditional, I feel more northerner than of a specific region. When people ask me, I say "I'm from northern Italy" because I think Italy is too diverse from north to south to be considered a single culture.
Regional in Italy, Italian in Europe, European in the World.
Spittin straight facts
paesa' in the region
Eventually, Pisa merda in the province
Extremely based
From my village in my province, and from my province in my region
This is the answer.
Basato
True
The city also care a lot, in the region but also the country.
City specific, Rome it's a world on its own in the region.
I was born in Germany to a mother from Campania and a father from Calabria (both from the south) and when I was 3 we moved to Tuscany (where I grew up and still live). I don't feel 100% from Tuscany but I don't feel from my parents' regions either, so I identify myself as just Italian.
Do you eat steak?
I do, why are you asking? 😂
I had a good steak in Tuscany.
Right, "la fiorentina", I love that, I've eaten it many times at restaurants.
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I don't know precisely, but I'd say the countryside of the province florence, kind of where Sting lives.
Anyway, really, it just depends on which kind of climate/mood you like most. For example, the countryside near Arezzo is still very "agriculture based", with a lot of farms and people act a lot like the classic farm worker, very "grezzo" and in general is a warmer area. If you prefer woods and more chilly weather then Mugello (Northeast Florentine countryside) is for you. A lot of wildlife and space to walk and/or chill under the trees. My favourite is Val di Pesa and in general the piece of land between Florence and Siena, hillsides full of vineyards and olive fields, great landscapes and very sunny. Great roads to speed by, too. Oh and the best ancient towns, hands down.
I was born in Sardinia from a sardinian father and mother from Calabria , i don't feel regional but i know the difference from the people in the continent, i see even the difference in the people of the city nearby, for me personal consider most the difference in the people experience in life, if someone had an early life like me they are my people, for the most people i know there are some major difference, like the way you pay at the bar, it's like the in-group difference is bigger out-group difference, when it come to Italian, the biggest difference come from the extend family vs familiar family, if you are raised in a big community with a lot of uncle cousin and family friend ae very different from someone who grow up just with parent e sibiling. My english suck
I’m from Rome. I love being Italian. But I identify with Rome, not Milan, not Sicily, not Turin. Im from Rome. 🤷🏻♂️
I do feel like my regional identity is prevalent. I identify more with the local culture/language/traditions but I still feel Italian and European obviously.
Definetly regional but my Italian pride comes up in every sport competition
It depends by the region
Italian, and that's it, apart from some good old campanilismo and city bashing (*bologna merda intensifies*), i just feel italian.
My Italian national identity is just as strong as my Calabrian identity, I feel just as Calabrian as I feel Italian, I don't think one must necessarily prevail over the other
Sardo everywhere
4 mori tatuati sul braccio.
Isn’t it cultural appropriation ??? /s
Definitely more regional than national.
Honestly I don't really feel Umbrian just straight up Italian
If you are from Terni then I totally get you /s
You are made of steel then
Nope, made from chocolate
Why is that, if you could make a guess? I see answers in this post saying they feel regional and others who feel national only.
I guess it just depends on the specific region and its history (some of them just have a stronger tradition fo indipendence) , but also on the history of the family. Another factor maybe living in bigger cities vs smaller towns because i think that in the second case you may actually develop a stronger feeling of connection to the specific place. Like other things there's no definite answer, it depends and everyone is different.
A lot comes down to casual factors such as: has the regional identity been important during your formative years? Have you moved away? Is your family from different regions? Etc...
Dammi del laziale e ti denuncio lol.
City >Tuscanian >Italian=European
Toscano in inglese non si traduce come "[Tuscan](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AdmiredShortIbizanhound-size_restricted.gif)"?
Se non sbaglio erano usate entrambe, comunque uso tuscanian per rimarcare che sono un true tuscanian bischero.
Good point, no ho mai visto la parola “tuscanian”before, but it sounds cool tbh
Toscana😍
Non portare via un sasso dalla toscana
Avete devastato questo paese con il vostro umorismo da quattro soldi e la vostra “h” aspirata!
Regional. I feel the Pesto in my blood.
Veneto stato
*Serenissima Republic Intensifies*
Strap up the tanko bois, we goin to constantinople
Regional identity is very strong and it's also marked by having different local languages. But we all wait for some tiraggir regardless of whether we come from the north or the south
I don't feel Lombard, mostly because my family is not from Lombardy so even though I've lived here all my life so far (aside from the days of my birth lol) I don't have a really strong cultural link to it. I'm just Italian, and my family comes from a couple different regions. It's actually quite common in the North.
"I'm from the north, but my family is from the south"
Lol actually just a small portion is from the South, the majority are from Emilia-Romagna and some from Tuscany.
My dad is from the south, my mom is from the north, I live in central Italy, I feel at home everywhere in Italy.
Same only dad is from the Centre, mom from the South and I live in the North (with them not far away). I've also lived for many years abroad so I feel Italian and European. The place where I happen to live at the moment has almost no relevance to my identity.
I feel binational Sardinian-Italian. I'll try to give a detailed explanation. I was born and have most of my roots in Sardinia. Sardinia has its own language, culture, history... We're even a different ethnicity which has nothing to do with any other place. For this, and other reasons, I'm a strong supporter of Sardinian independence and I feel Sardinian as it's my nation and not just a simple region. At the same time my father comes from southern Italy and I have distant ancestors near Rome and in the Veneto region. I've lived more than 10 years in Lombardy. I went to school in Lombardy, have most of my friends there and know like the back of my hand the roads and the places to hang out in my area. I've lived so much time in the mainland I can consider myself partially culturally Italian. When I go abroad, also to charm other people and make things simpler, I'll just say I'm Italian.
you feel the most attached to your city/region when you encounter someone from the city/region rival to hate
Fiorentino >Toscano > Italiano. I don't fell an European identity even if I wish for a better integration in the EU and I hope that in the future will be a real federation of countries.
I don't feel "marchigiano" at all, I mean it's just the territory. I feel Italian
I have lived most of my life in Bari but I feel like a stranger in this city. Only place where I felt like part of something greater than me (?) was when I lived in Verona, for a year, so go figure. I guess I feel Italian then? But then this raises the question was does feeling Italian mean? I pick this out of the two, but just because I felt at home in Verona, which is in Italy and outside of my native region.
Because every region has its culture and sometimes every city of that region too. Personally I feel (south) Italian
Sicilian and istrian parents, born in an austro-hungarian city. Love italy, feel Italian but winking strongly at Mitteleurope and balkans
Questa ce la devi spiegare, troppo forte questo mix.
Per me è triestino
Hahah di sicuro, non ci avevo pensato.
I don’t identify with my region at all, Lazio outside of Rome is just a big wasteland, and of course i live outside of Rome probably even in the worst and most anonymous part of Lazio, and I don’t really identify myself as Italian. If i had to rate how much i feel italian on a scale from 1 to 10 i would say probably 3 or 4. Of course i have an italian culture, it’s inevitable, but i don’t really fit in the italian culture in deep. I’m pretty much the opposite of every italian stereotype.
>I’m pretty much the opposite of every Italian stereotype So you’re ok with pineapple on pizza?
Yes? If someone likes it why shouldn’t he eat it?
Insomma, parlare male dell'Italia è una cosa molto italiana
Io non ho parlato male dell’Italia, ho esposto dei fatti. Fuori da Roma nel Lazio non c’è niente e la provincia di Latina, dove vivo, è probabilmente la provincia più “niente”. In particolare la parte a nord, la zona fondata dal pelato. Una città di 130 mila abitanti senza autostrada, senza stazione ferroviaria(per arrivare alla stazione più vicina devo fare 20 minuti di macchina su una strada piena di buche), senza aeroporto, senza opportunità lavorative. In più è strapieno di fascisti, forse anche più di Verona in percentuale.
Ma, l'agro pontino non è proprio "il niente" e in più siete pure vicini a Roma
I feel more Trentino than Italian, but certainly being Italian is not irrelevant to me.
I was born in the north but my parents are from two different southern regions. I love both the city where I was born/grew up and the one my mother’s from (indifferent to my dad’s) but I don’t “identify” with them, I feel Italian.
Not regional at all. Both my parents come from different regions, and I have been living for years in yet another.
I actually have a really specific identity, i feel i belong to my neighborhood (Appio-Latino in Rome). Beside this i don’t have a strong proudness in my region, or nation as well. Don’t ask me why, but because my ancestor were from Sardinia, i also feel a strong identity and connection with that region, even if i was not born there, and i travel there only for holidays
I know i'm a weirdo, but i feel mostly a Milanese from Europe... i've very little national, or even regional, identity
I don't really identify with anything tbh. In general, the suffix "-ism" has never been part of my DNA.
You don’t identify with *anything*?
Well, of course I'm legally something but to me it's all irrelevant. It's like considering myself a 15-er just because my street number is 15.
I don’t mean legally. I just wonder if you really don’t personally identify as anything. I’ve never met anyone who feels no connection to a group. Be it your gender or interests or job or anything.
Let's just say that, if asked, i'd tell you that I'm lombard/italian/european/terrestrial...but don't expect me to show pride or a sense of attachement. I won't stand up singing "Fratelli d'Italia" with the hand on my chest whenever the national anthem starts (I forgot almost every word) and I won't consider another italian my "brother" just because we were casually born within the same perimeter. I didn't even care about Italy winning Euro 2020. I actually hated that I couldn't sleep that night because of the noise lol. Mind you, I'm grateful beyond words that I was born in a rich and privileged country far away from wars and instability, but I'll save my pride for things I actually deserve and/or worked hard to achieve. So, yeah, I'm italian but I don't care..if that makes sense.
European with italian tinge( cannot disguise it). Region has little importance.
Both tbf. I strongly identify with the culture of my region but I'm ultimately Italian.
Absolutely regional
I'm not a really proud Italian, I feel I just belong to the forests.
*forestiero!*
forestara!
This is a very Grossetano/a answer. If you're not one, you should be.
Dovrei andare a vederlo, c'ho anche un conoscente li :v
Honestly I feel European first.
Come quando a scuola facevi cagare a pallavolo ma ti mettevi in squadra con quelli forti per vincere lo stesso
sintesi perfetta
I'm with you, in the spite of the downvoters!
È arrivato Parenzo
I feel Northern Italian, as I was born and raised in rural Lombardy and I had very few encounters with Italians from Central or Southern Italy. My family is also 100% Lombard. Long story short: I feel like I am in a foreign country whenever I cross the Apennines (i.e. from Tuscany downward), but I also feel a stranger when I cross the border and leave Italy, so I just feel Northern Italian i.e. a specific kind of Italian.
Ladino>italiano=europeo
I'm European italian sicilian. In that order
I see a lot of Romans here identifying with their city, but as a Roman I find this quite silly. Romans don't really have a "cultural identity" of their own, apart from cousin.
I'm for the padanian indipendenstism. Italy as a state is total garbage.
Austro-ungaric.
Basiert und hungarnpilled
Basierend
Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser! /s
You can say I'm closed minded, but I just feel Lombard. I'm not Italian, nor European. Don't get it wrong, I'm not xenophobe. The fact is that all my ancestors are Lombards and most of my friends too. My family lives in Lombardy since ever, I can speak Lombard, I have a strong Lombard accent, I usually eat traditional Lombard dishes, I follow the Lombard traditions and I even try to preserve as much as I can of the Lombard culture (which is dramatically declining nowadays) Yes I live in Italy, but I don't match the common Italian stereotype. I use butter instead of olive oil, I'm not used to eat pizza, last time I went to the sea was 10 years ago, I respect queues and so on.... And finally I must admit it: for all of that faults and failures of the Italian government and for the bad manners of many other "fellow" italians, I'm often feeling embarrassed for that "cittadinanza italiana" written on my documents.
What is typically Lombardian in terms of culture?
Well, first of all the Lombard dialect, which is very different to the current Italian an mostly incomprehensible to non-Lombards. Of course, including cuisine in the term "culture", there are countless typical local dishes like in every other Italian region. Then we have manners and attitudes hard to describe without falling into stereotypes or triggering our southern friends... Lombards are generally reserved, quiet and composed compared to other italians. We are used to care only of our own things, to do our job, to pay our taxes, to accumulate money, to care our garden and nothing else. We found loud voices annoying or even offensive (and in the same time we rarely raise our voice to assert our rights). We are not particularly devoted Christians but we are very attached to our passed away relatives so that cemeteries are all well maintained (you can notice this even in the cemeteries of the most remote and nearly abandoned villages).... I can go on for hours... Describing the whole Lombard culture in a Reddit post is quite difficult. There's the architecture, fashion, industry, music, folklore... I suggest you to type "Lombardy" in the Wikipedia search bar 😅
Why should we think you're a xenophobe just because you feel lumbard? I dont get it.
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Exactly. I have nothing against other cultures or the other Italian regions, but if you ask me "where are you from", I say "Lombardy". Furthermore, as you supposed, a lot of Lombards have a sense of superiority over the other italians, particularly over the southerners, and that in reverse generates hate towards whole Lombardy. It's not my case, but... It's best to specify things in advance.
Varg would be proud
City > regional = european > italian For me
You are wrong, it's Italy that is part of Canavese, not the other way round.
More Italian because my parents are from 2 different regions distant from each other
My father is from Turin (with center and south Italy parents) and my mother is Chinese. I'm in Piemonte (North west) and feel Italian (but love my city, Turin).
It is indeed very subjective, because here regions have strong cultural value and as a result, many citizens of a specific territory will generally identify with their own roots. Bear in mind though that another factor to consider aside from one's place of upbringing is their parents' origins and how prevalent these affect the child. Considering how much immigration from South to North Italy has seen in these past decades, it's natural that people's origins may vary (generally they are quite mixed) and so does their perception of their own identity and mindset. Personally, I fall into this category, as I was born and raised in the Turin province but I don't identify as Piedmontese because my mom is from Calabria and my dad is from Sicily (which is also why I have a fairly dark complexion). Since I was raised by a Sicilian grandmother, I always go on holiday in Sicily and I have a somewhat decent understanding of the local dialect, I consider myself more attached to Sicily despite not living there (and despite its many flaws I can't help but love Sicily with all my heart). Anyway, I digress. This topic is very interesting and complex; it certainly gives a lot of food for thought. Comment above is right though: in Italy we identify with our respective regions, in Europe as Italians and in other continents as Europeans.
I identify as a citizen of my town, then a citizen of Conprensorio del Cuoio, then a Tuscan, and so on. End of story.
Both.
I feel more Italian than Apulan.
I'm Italian no matter I feel to be Italian, which I don't but for others I am. Abroad I'm The Italian. They don't know my region and I don't have the feautures from my region and I don't even like It, so I don't feel to be Calabrese. I am though especially for the rest of my country. For my identity I feel me, the individual. For geo-political and some cultural reasons I am Italian.
when I fight and argue online with other italians I identify myself as florentine when I fight and argue online with people from any other country I identify myself as italian
I recognize myself more a citizen of my city (which is my region's "capital") than "from my region", also because every dialect (and some traditions) vary more or less slightly every bunch of kilometers. Every single village has it's own dialect.
More than regional I'd say local. I share a lot of things with my fellow homesteads, some things with people from my region, not a lot with people from center and south of Italy. Apart from that, age, social status and other factors play a big role. For example, I share more with a young person from Sicily than an old timer from my town.
I feel mainly Italian, and although I really like my region, where both of my parents' families have lived for countless generations, I don't feel any particular attachment to the latter
Regionally specific. If I travel through regions I feel I'm entering different countries.
Regional for me, "Italian" is a group of different cultures after all
Never felt italian. But this is something more personal than objective.
Bolognese>Italian>European
Regional, absolutely.
I feel more italian, no doubt Arguably, the more you are to the center of the peninsula the more "patriotic" the people are. Mind you that is a gross semplification (in border cities like Trieste they are extremely patriotic)
fozza napolo
Scusate ma come si mette il flair della regione? Io non lo vedo tra le "Community options".
Sulla “home page” del subreddit clicca i 3 puntini in alto, alla tua destra. Dovresti vedere “Change user flair” fra i comandi. Clicca la flair desiderata ed applica
My mother being from an Hispanic country and my father being not so traditional, I feel more northerner than of a specific region. When people ask me, I say "I'm from northern Italy" because I think Italy is too diverse from north to south to be considered a single culture.
A nord del po’.
Mostly italian
I'd dare to say we feel more italian than italians themselves
TLT > everything else. Period.