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Originally Posted by Krokodill
Certain Spanish poster.. there are about 10 ersatz ones. The only women I have seen with body hair were Soviet women.
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It was
Catbelle, and she admitted that it was as much a false stereotype as Spaniards having a siesta with a sombrero. Stereotypes exist all-around, some are true and some blatantly false. And I like her and she's really a nice person, so no harm done.
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Originally Posted by improb
This view is not only quite common amongst a section of Italians when speaking of Northern Europeans (although Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Norway) are looked more and more as examples but incredibly amongst Southern Italians when speaking of their relatives (especially more successful) living up north.
Shame i have to spread reputation before repping this
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Yeah I know. I don't know if I told this before you joined C-D, but my very good friend moved to Italy for a winter as his wife got a job in a small company in Tuscany. The people working there had the attitude "well great, here comes a Finn and puts this company back on track". It was a big dissappointment that the wife was in reality Spanish.
The second indicator and a huge source of confusion was when Mario Monti was elected as PM in Italy, he came to Finland and agreed on a personal one-hour face-on-face interview with YLE, the Finnish RAI. The reporter can ask anything, and very few leaders agree to this. Even to get the Prime Minister of Sweden is hard to get in that chair. Merkel said no, Hollande said no. T. H. Ilves, the President of Estonia was there once, and won't come a second time. But Monti said that "OK, let's do this thing", and we were like WOOOOOW. He used the whole hour telling that we are on the same side, Italy will not ask for bailouts, quite the contrary,they pay for them. And we who know the concept revelled in grandieuse. OOOOOH, Finland STRONK, the PM of BIG ITALY sat in the chair few dare to!
(And Italy and Finland has always had excellent relations while being very different cultures, Italy has a certain high position here.) If the PM of Slovakia would've sat in that grilling chair, who would've even care to watch the programme? Nobody.
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