Entry 1: A meaningful drawing

HAVE YOU EVER HAD THIS IDEALS ABOUT ITALIAN CULTURE?
This drawing represent those tipicall stereotypes that people commonly have when they think about Italy.

In the drawing we can observe the Spaghetti and Pizza, this represent the idea that people have of Italians that they like too much and they know perfectly how to prepare spaghetti and Pizza. This ideal may come from the fact that Italy is recognized because of their excellent dishes with pasta and also their delicious Pizza, but we have to make conciense that not all Italian should like and know how to prepare spaghetti and Pizza just because they are Italian.

The mafia is a delicated topic but Italy has been pointed out as a mafia country, and this may happen because there are many movie and books that show an exagerated point of view of this problematic to readers and viewers that it's not true at all, this is just fiction most of the time.

Also we can identify in the drawing that gesture with the hand wich is used many times to represent Italians. This is not used by all Italians but people in other cultures seems this way of communication kind of representative  to them because we can't see this gesture in another country, also this gesture has been taken as a joke

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  1. UnknownFebruary 20, 2021 at 9:20 AM

    I believe you portray an accurate representation of the different stereotypes that we can find in this country, and you do well to try and break these misconceptions held by many! - Paul

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