I have noticed a big change in the way the Italian people
are in public versus the German speaking peoples I met in Germany and
Austria. This is from a very small
sampling and only a few days of experience here and there but Italians seem
much more outgoing. The Italian people I have met are polite and emotional.
Load laughing and speaking in the streets both happy and angry you find
everywhere.
Today as I was running to catch a boat bus to take me from
the island I was staying at to the Train station on another island, I got
locked out. I just missed the boat and was tuned back with a chain, the next
boat came in 20 minutes. The Italian man I was with started angrily speaking
out, almost yelling in Italian at the boat worker who did this, even as the
boat bus sailed away and was out of hearing range he continued to complain in a
load vocal (beautiful sounding) Italian!
That is something II have noticed everywhere here, load
vocals from the locals, often accompanied by grand gestures with hands and
arms. Back in Canada I have an Italian neighbor and I often here him
complaining and yelling with his wife. Now I get that behavior more, I hear
that everywhere from most everyone here. It must be part of the culture, part
of the norm here.
