Why are all men in Italy...
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In the past it was very difficult to get to talk to girls in Italy.I remember my friend & I being presented to 2 local girls on the feast of the local saint...behind them stood the entire family, chaperones, the lot. We feigned ignorance & ran for it.
In those days the only girls you saw hanging around in Southern Italy were whores.
I was asked "If I come to UK, you will get me a woman, yes?"
No use explaining that I could hardly get one for myself.Their impression was that "they are all prostitutes over there"
With this sort of baggage it was certainly the case that they didn't waste time on the rare occasion that they got to talk to a girl.(after all they thought she was a whore just for talking to them).
Things have changed for sure but old attitudes die hard.
These guys dont see themselves as romantics but as predators.
In those days the only girls you saw hanging around in Southern Italy were whores.
I was asked "If I come to UK, you will get me a woman, yes?"
No use explaining that I could hardly get one for myself.Their impression was that "they are all prostitutes over there"
With this sort of baggage it was certainly the case that they didn't waste time on the rare occasion that they got to talk to a girl.(after all they thought she was a whore just for talking to them).
Things have changed for sure but old attitudes die hard.
These guys dont see themselves as romantics but as predators.
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But DejaVu, although what you say is true, I have NEVER found a fraction of the players in USA or in Germany, for instance that I have "found" in any location in Italy.
I am no spring chicken, nor summer either- actually passing to fall.
I am not looking for THEM, but they are finding ME. And I don't want to be found- so it is rather puzzling and absurd overall.
And although as rotaka says "foreign OR Italian" play it up IN Italy. There's an accepted dynamic that is permissable, I think, as it is expected of them.
I am no spring chicken, nor summer either- actually passing to fall.
I am not looking for THEM, but they are finding ME. And I don't want to be found- so it is rather puzzling and absurd overall.
And although as rotaka says "foreign OR Italian" play it up IN Italy. There's an accepted dynamic that is permissable, I think, as it is expected of them.
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Who knows why but it is fun! Even for a "mature woman"! My husband who was listening from a short distance away thought it was interesting to say the least! I sure don't take it as an insult whatever their motive is...
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Michelle : in you you're being serious - that's because it's a Catholic country & Giuseppe is the Italian version of Joseph. Very large numbers of the older generations were named Maria or Giuseppe.
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enjoy it while you can rotaka. I remember thinking the same thing on trips when I was 24. Now at 44 I have a totally different take on who Italian men all are.
SOMEHOW they all became gentlemen as I aged LOL!
SOMEHOW they all became gentlemen as I aged LOL!
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My 21 yr. old daughter just returned form 6 months in Italy...and oh, the phone calls are pouring in...Yes, they're players, but as the name suggests--it's just a game--so, have fun with it.
I once asked her why so many of the Italian women seemed so possessive (she was friends with this man, and just that) and she told me, "Because the have reason to be!"
I once asked her why so many of the Italian women seemed so possessive (she was friends with this man, and just that) and she told me, "Because the have reason to be!"
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Amuzing thread. BTW, imagine all of us here in the US know that "John Smith" is a name used for when the name is not known or when fellows in the pass checked into a hotel for shall we say a few hours. Before the era when hotel required a cc to check them in. Did you know that in Italy the Italian version of John Smith is Mario Rossi?
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