L'italia per immagini, 20 minutes presentation

1. ITALY Images of “il bel paese”

2. GEOGRAPHICAL
IMAGE
- Founding member of EU
- “Italy” since 1861

3. HISTORICAL IMAGES
1829
1861
Kingdom
of Italy
Fatta l’Italia, bisogna fare gli italiani.
“

4. LINGUISTIC
IMAGE
 After l’Unità d’Italia only 2.5-10% of
Italians could speak standard Italian

5. CONTEMPORARY
IMAGES

6. STEREOTYPICAL (?)
IMAGES

7.  Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino
 Roberto Saviano
MAFIA

8. FAMILY
 2012: 1.42 children per woman
FAMILY IS:
 Free counseling centre
 Bank
 Employment ajency

9. MAMMA-LOVERS
(MAMMONI)
 Different education system
 High youth unemployment rate
FUGA DI CERVELLI
In 2014 for the first
time in years
emigration from
Italy was higher
than immigration
to Italy.

10. RELIGION
 Catholics: +60%
 Practicing Catholics: around 30%
 The Vatican City is technically NOT Italy

11. PASTA, PIZZA,
WINE ETC.
 Pizza once a week
 Pasta consumption has dropped from 40kg to 31kg
per family per year in the past decade
 Wine vs. “La bella figura”

12.  Italian is the language with the highest number
of words related to food
FOOD YOU WON’T FIND ANYWHERE IN ITALY
 Fettuccine Alfredo
 Garlic bread
 Spaghetti with meatballs
 Pesto on anything which is not pasta
 Parmesan
 Chicken carbonara
Italians speak and
eat in dialects.
“

13. ITALIANS ARE
SEXY
 Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren
(the Golden Age of Italian cinema)
 “Latin lover” myth
(yes, it’s a myth, I am sorry)

14. GESTURES