Why are Italians so Family oriented?

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• EL

  @ElliottSallyPress · 2 months ago

  I miss them so much!  My grandparents, parents, and children living in one house.  It worked so well. A bungalow house made into separate apartments.  There was privacy and personal space and yet unity and dependability to each other. 😢😅 I t was beautiful!!  There was always someone to ask questions to, and to understand.  Nobody got depressed.Everyone had a purpose. OLD PEOPLE WERE REVERED.  THERE WAS THIS STRATEGY.  EVERYONE SHARED EXPENSES. IT TOTALLY WORKED !

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• AN

  @anthonypanepinto3971 · 2 months ago

  THOSE WERE THE BEST OF TIMES GROWING UP & I TRULY MISS THEM. LOVED THE VIDEO.

• MY

  @Myitalianamericanstory · 2 months ago

  Growing up in Sicily I remember Sundays fondly. Special day for us!

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• VI

  @vincentcrosby9274 · 2 months ago

  I found this video to be beautifully composed and absolutely true in every respect.  I am old enough to have known my great grandparents who came from Italy with my grand father.  After they arrived in this country they had 8 more children.  So I grew up surrounded by a multitude of Aunt and Uncles, and cousins who never tired of being together.  The Sunday dinner was as described in this video. The homes of all the Aunts and Uncles seemed to be just an extension of our own home.  I feel very blessed to have grown up in this environment.  We have maintained  close contact with our relatives in Italy and have visited them many times.  Even though we are separated by thousands of miles, the family bond is just as strong as if we were living just down the street.  And needless to say, even if not all attend church regularly, our Catholic Faith deepens that bond. Viva La Mamma!

• BL

  @BlockadeMHITCHIE143 · 2 months ago (edited)

  La familia de mi novio es 100% exactamente así.<br>Él estaba solo en su casa y sus hermanos tenían sus propias familias, así que venían a visitarlo todos los días a la hora de la comida para que tenga con quién comer y no coma solo. Además, se visitan todos los días después de sus respectivos trabajos.<br>Y los mayores de la familia siempre tienen su propio tiempo para visitar a los ancianos.Como dijiste, hay celebraciones y cada semana se reúne toda la familia, y todos participan en la preparación de la comida.Todos ellos también ayudan con los gastos.<br>Esto es lo que me gustaba y me encantaba de mi novio. En mi caso, creo que he encontrado al hombre adecuado para mí. Quiero una familia así, donde todos sean felices, cariñosos y generosos.Gracias por compartir esto, tu video es precioso.<br>GRACIAS. ☺️💐💐💐✨

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• MA

  @margueritedaltoso7186 · 2 months ago

  My parents came from Italy. We had a beautiful Italian close knit family with grandparent and other relatives near by. Holidays were warm and typical with lots of good &nbsp;Italian food I was lucky to marry an Italian man and he was from the North of Italy. My heritage was from the south of Italy. &nbsp;Calabria Italy &nbsp;we had it all. We had Six children and holidays were and are so special. So glad I am Italian,so many blessings. &nbsp; Marguerite Deluca

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• JO

  @JohnScollo-e4b · 2 months ago

  Growing up as an italian my family and extended family means the world to me.❤

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  @antoniettafiore7497 · 2 months ago

  I was boron in Italy I came to America very young but I remember all and all the time I go to Italy are cousin get all together at one cousins home and it’s like I never left the good food and memory from lunch until nite we never leave the table . &nbsp;Good memory I’m happy I’m ITALIANA and America I have both passport.

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• TI

  @tinalettieri · 2 months ago (edited)

  Interesting. I think America especially could learn. &nbsp;When my husband finished his US military service, we moved with our new baby into my mother&apos;s house. She had no intention of selling and I was her only heir. Mom had been an older mom but she wasn&apos;t that old for me to be thinking about that. It just let me raise my daughter in the house my grandfather had built in Italian style and that I grew up in. Of course we contributed. We were three and Mom was one, although she was a practicing physician. We hadn&apos;t had the big Sunday gatherings when I grew up but family was everything. I was raised with those values you mentioned. My Ukrainian husband wasn&apos;t. His mother was very progressive, a Social Worker. I have learned it&apos;s crucial to marry someone with the same shared family and cultural values. So there was some conflict in how we raised our daughter. The school system of the 1970&apos;s only contributed to the loss of connection. I would have been better off married to a blue collar guy who had the same family values than this MBA corporate clone who at heart thought we were a bit &quot;primitive.&quot; His mother&apos;s words. But I didn&apos;t know how bad it was until I had left the Church and the MInister who was our pastor told me that my daughter told him at age 18 that her greatest fear was having to take care of me in my old age. This from a girl who saw me nurse my mother through a year of cancer until she died. Mom was home, no hospice, no machines, alert and amazingly pain free til the end. But she was bed ridden and couldn&apos;t care for herself. That is probably the biggest heartbreak of my life and even now that daughter turned 56 and I&apos;m turning 80, she doesn&apos;t care. <br>We live 6,000 miles apart. I&apos;m alone, and maybe not thriving but not wilting on the vine either because I live in The Holy Land and my Arab friends share my values. I feel much more at home here than I ever did in the US.

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• JO

  @joannemaguuire9664 · 2 months ago

  If you ask any of my cousins who &nbsp;was grandma&apos;s favorite they would say that they were<br>My grandmother treated every grandchild and great grandchild like they were the only one. She was deeply religious and she passed it on. She was the heart of our family. All the things in this video is exact how it was in my Italian American family growing up.

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  @LillyBrown-t8r · 2 months ago

  Because family was everything

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  @Pasquale-q3s · 2 months ago

  Oh how I remember those days when we were all together ! &nbsp;My children will never experience those tender moments. &nbsp;I was born in La Vucciria in the city of Palermo, then we moved to America and we still held on to those values but now they are gone. &nbsp;My children never knew their grand parents, let alone their great grandparents and to me that is a tragedy . &nbsp;I blame my self for not moving back to Sicily when my children were young ! &nbsp;There is more to life than money and this thing called success . &nbsp;Now I am moving back to Palermo by myself and believe me I will not miss this country one damn bit !