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Originally Posted by kyashan
we are the country of "1000 campanili", I don't know how to translate "campanili", pardonnez moi. 
that's pretty much my same opinion.
besides phenotypical differences, the cultural ones are as well if not even more important and noticeable. as I previously said, two italians from north and south aren't able to understand each other speaking in their own native tongue while (I guess) an occitan and a french are.
the italian state tried to level those differences with a very bad immigrationist policy.
I like southern italian culture, but I'd like to know and appreciate it travelling down to Sicily rather than going out of home and hearing a calabro-sicilian esperant all around, if you know what I mean...
a federal union would be a reasonable choice.
then, of course, Sudtyrol should come back to Austria and Sardinia should become indipendent. |
Once again i can only agree with you
just my 2 cents about some other issues:
1) Northern Italians don't identify themselves as Germanics but more as Celts, there may be few deluded minds that try to spread this Germanic nonsense but that's not rilevant as eccentric people come out everywhere...
2) Lega Nord is not what is meant to be and their representants/followers are not a benchmark of what a Northern Italian looks like, many of then are indeed are of a mixed Nothern/Southern italian heritage and some are even pure Southern Italians that jumped on the Lega bandwagon just for interest, i have met many of this kind of "Leghisti" around here in Milan.