Anonymous asked: Could you post more posts about being Italian rather than answering asks?

I will be doing that, it’s just been a little hectic this week. I will try to get back to my normal posts this weekend! Apologies to everyone!

If you’d like to send me a message, please do! I probably wont answer until tomorrow since I have to clean the house before my friend comes over.

Sorry for being a pain in the neck! I just had to get all of those messages, especially the negative ones, out of my inbox and off my chest!

Thanks again to everyone who has submitted!
More will be up tomorrow.

I love you guys.

forsakenhero asked: where do you live? :3

I live in the US. :)

sleepy-street-deactivated201207 asked: I showed this blog to my nonno, and he was born in Sicily. He lived there during his childhood until his father was...well, "taken care of". Anyway, back to the reason why I am here. My nonno loves this blog. He sat next to me for at least an hour or two, reading all the posts and laughing about how true they are.

I told him about all this silly hate for your blog, and he just laughed that he expected this to happen. Some Italians are just snobby like that. Don't mind them~

My nonno and nonna are from Sicily too! :D

Palermo to be exact. :)

I’m so glad that he enjoyed it! I am especially over-joyed at the thought that these silly posts led to the two of you bonding over fond memories! You have no idea how much that warms my heart! I wonder if my grandparents would find this funny…

thrillingtragedy asked: I'm Italian and I can relate to most of your posts :)
I think some of us may be offended because our image abroad is currently not that good and overall based on stereotypes, and I have to admit even I feel that sometimes my country is underestimated. But here we're talking about (family) traditions and habits which, as someone already pointed out, are not the same for everyone. I appreciate, though, how Italians who left their country are so attached to their native culture, something that here, especially for the young ones, doesn't seem that important at all. I find it great to be proud of your own origins and I don't really care about communicating by shouting as long as it makes me feel home.
So, if other Italians can't relate is probably because their (our) habits changed over time, while people who left carried with them traditions that are somehow outdated here (and even considered as bad behaviour in some cases).
Maybe some of them were offended because they misinterpreted the purpose of this tumblr?
I think that this could be a good occasion to share rather than complain.

Very well said!

I think that this could be a good occasion to share rather than complain.

Hee hee, I especially like that part. :)

lainwen asked: I don't find the ideas negative, and I'm not ashamed, maybe I sould have said cliché

I see. But… a cliché is “an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, rendering it a stereotype, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.”

I can see how for you, this is true, since you said that your grandparents could relate to this blog, and that you just find them to be old traditions that have stuck in the minds of people outside of Italy.

But there are many Italians in Italy who have said that they can relate to some of these posts. I suppose it just depends on, not necessarily where you grew up, but how you grew up in your family.

thelondonhalflife-deactivated20 asked: You know you are Italian when one Italian says another Italian isn't truly Italian, and then you have a mob of Italians jumping down that Italian anon's throat.

Love the blog. Keep it up.

Anonymous asked: Are you Italian? I mean, do you live in Italy?

You just asked me two completely different questions.

Yes, I am Italian.
No, I do not live in Italy.

ladynorthstar asked: we luckly won the referendum the other users were talking about, and thanks for your thoughts~ about the not really mature people saying that having Italian parents/granparents doesn't make you Italian, just shut the hell up! if a person born and raised in Milano can consider himself from Napoli because his parents are from there and he grew up breathing Napoli's culture and dialect, the same way someone that grew up aware of his Italian heritage IS Italian, and we should be proud that people around the world are not ashamed to declare their identity as Italian: we lately become quite of a laughing matter - internationally speaking - because of politics and all, and it wouldn't surprise me if people denied their Italian roots! so thanks to all the awesome people in USA and in South America and all around the world that still consider themselves Italian and are able to laugh and feel close because of our sometimes silly habits and traditions!

BIG HUG FOR EVERYBODY

Anonymous asked: I have a suggestion. Make something about Berlusconi. We all hate him. Make something like "Berlusconi is not my president".

Oh, I don’t know, someone might complain. They might even find that offensive!