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Description
The Italies handle a radio program in which they answers to questions about themselves...
Created for fun using history and local stereotypes, no offense meant. If something is incorrect please warn me.

Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3, Part 4

If you want to hear what the Italies are listening in the musical break click here: Pensa (Think) (1996) by Fabrizio Moro
(translation at the bottom.)

Notes:

Comparing to the tales of my grandma and my mom, boys are saying 'ciao bella' or their own regional variation, a lot less than in the past.

I've been in Rome this summer. Romans are stereotypically the ones you would expect to approach girls with a 'ciao bella' (times ago there were even tv transmissions on the way they approached girls) and there was plenty of awesome girls, tourists and not in the city... but I couldn't hear a single 'ciao bella'.

To make up for it I saw plenty of bags with the writing 'Ciao bella' on it.

The 'Italies as Mafia are so cool' is the explanation I got from some people who liked to portray them as such. As I never feel no fascination for Mafia, Mafia's explanation about why he's so charming comes from American studies about why the Mafia is judged so intriguing by tv viewers. No idea if it would fit not American viewers. Mafia's kitten is a reference to a scene in the movie 'The Godfather', critics commented that scene too was placed there to charm readers.
The regions are dressed up as Carabinieri because often they were the ones who got the job to deal with Mafia. The four I picked are representative of some of the many people who fought Mafia, Cesare Mori (Lombardia), Giovanni Falcone & Paolo Borsellino (Sicilia), Sergio De Caprio (Toscana), Antonino Scopelliti & the Ammazzateci tutti Antimafia social movement (Calabria). There's more but I didn't have enough space.

Pensa (Think) (1996) by Fabrizio Moro

There were men who wrote pages,
notes of a priceless lifetime.
They were irreplaceable because they denounced
the most corrupted system too often ignored.
Men or angels sent to earth to fight a war
of feuds and families scattered like so many marbles
on an island of blood that between many wonders,
between lemons and between shells ... slaughters sons and daughters
of a generation forced not to look,
to speak in a low voice, to turn off the light,
to comment in peace every bullet in the air,
every corpse in a ditch.

There were men who step by step
left their mark with courage and commitment,
with dedication against an organized institution
Cosa Nostra (Our Thing) ... Your Thing... What is your thing?
It's our ... the freedom to say
that the eyes are made to look,
the mouth to speak, the ears listen...
not only music, not just music.
The head turns and adjusts the target, thinks,
sometimes sentences, sometimes forgives.
Simply:
Think before you shoot;
Think before speaking and judging, try to think;
Think that you can decide.
Wait a moment, just a little longer
with your head in your hands.

There have been men who died young
but aware that their ideas
would remain for the centuries like words, hyperbole,
intact and as real as small miracles,
ideas of equality, ideas of education
against every man exercising oppression
against the others, against the weaker,
against whom bury consciousness in concrete.
Think before you shoot;
Think before speaking and judging, try to think;
Think that you can decide.
Wait a moment, just a little longer
with your head in your hands.

There were men who continued
although all around them it was all burned
because in the end this life has no meaning
if you are afraid of a bomb or a gun
men come and go and a song comes and goes
but nobody will ever stop the belief
that justice, no... it's not just an illusion.
Think before you shoot;
Think before speaking and judging, try to think;
Think that you can decide.
Wait a moment, just a little longer
with your head in your hands.

Think.

Description
The Italies handle a radio program in which they answers to questions about themselves...
Created for fun using history and local stereotypes, no offense meant. If something is incorrect please warn me.

Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3, Part 4

If you want to hear what the Italies are listening in the musical break click here: Pensa (Think) (1996) by Fabrizio Moro
(translation at the bottom.)

Notes:

Comparing to the tales of my grandma and my mom, boys are saying 'ciao bella' or their own regional variation, a lot less than in the past.

I've been in Rome this summer. Romans are stereotypically the ones you would expect to approach girls with a 'ciao bella' (times ago there were even tv transmissions on the way they approached girls) and there was plenty of awesome girls, tourists and not in the city... but I couldn't hear a single 'ciao bella'.

To make up for it I saw plenty of bags with the writing 'Ciao bella' on it.

The 'Italies as Mafia are so cool' is the explanation I got from some people who liked to portray them as such. As I never feel no fascination for Mafia, Mafia's explanation about why he's so charming comes from American studies about why the Mafia is judged so intriguing by tv viewers. No idea if it would fit not American viewers. Mafia's kitten is a reference to a scene in the movie 'The Godfather', critics commented that scene too was placed there to charm readers.
The regions are dressed up as Carabinieri because often they were the ones who got the job to deal with Mafia. The four I picked are representative of some of the many people who fought Mafia, Cesare Mori (Lombardia), Giovanni Falcone & Paolo Borsellino (Sicilia), Sergio De Caprio (Toscana), Antonino Scopelliti & the Ammazzateci tutti Antimafia social movement (Calabria). There's more but I didn't have enough space.

Pensa (Think) (1996) by Fabrizio Moro

There were men who wrote pages,
notes of a priceless lifetime.
They were irreplaceable because they denounced
the most corrupted system too often ignored.
Men or angels sent to earth to fight a war
of feuds and families scattered like so many marbles
on an island of blood that between many wonders,
between lemons and between shells ... slaughters sons and daughters
of a generation forced not to look,
to speak in a low voice, to turn off the light,
to comment in peace every bullet in the air,
every corpse in a ditch.

There were men who step by step
left their mark with courage and commitment,
with dedication against an organized institution
Cosa Nostra (Our Thing) ... Your Thing... What is your thing?
It's our ... the freedom to say
that the eyes are made to look,
the mouth to speak, the ears listen...
not only music, not just music.
The head turns and adjusts the target, thinks,
sometimes sentences, sometimes forgives.
Simply:
Think before you shoot;
Think before speaking and judging, try to think;
Think that you can decide.
Wait a moment, just a little longer
with your head in your hands.

There have been men who died young
but aware that their ideas
would remain for the centuries like words, hyperbole,
intact and as real as small miracles,
ideas of equality, ideas of education
against every man exercising oppression
against the others, against the weaker,
against whom bury consciousness in concrete.
Think before you shoot;
Think before speaking and judging, try to think;
Think that you can decide.
Wait a moment, just a little longer
with your head in your hands.

There were men who continued
although all around them it was all burned
because in the end this life has no meaning
if you are afraid of a bomb or a gun
men come and go and a song comes and goes
but nobody will ever stop the belief
that justice, no... it's not just an illusion.
Think before you shoot;
Think before speaking and judging, try to think;
Think that you can decide.
Wait a moment, just a little longer
with your head in your hands.

Think.