[Cultural exchange] Cultural exchange with r/croatia – Scambio culturale con r/croatia

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1. Do you guys also have mostly negative opinion on your biggest political party and/or president?

   For reference our biggest political party (HDZ- Croatian Democratic Union) is mostly seen as corrupt, kleptomaniac cronies. Our president Zoran Milanović is usually seen as a red-pilled troll that likes to embarrass nation and sniff snow.

2. Hello from r/croatia! [Here is our thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/croatia/comments/10v2xvz/benvenuti_ritaly_today_we_are_hosting_italy_for_a/) 🙂

3. Are citizens of Naples nervous or at least conscious about living under the famously (and recently, in geological history) lethal volcano?

   Also, are there any special plans in surrounding region in case of an eruption? Drills in schools, leaflets reminding population where to go and how to act and so on?

4. I meet a guy from Palermo. He said he is Siciliano who just happens to be living in the country of Italy. Is there a lot of similar strong regional identification?

5. What is your best dish, that not a lot of people outside Italy ever heard of? Does such thing even exist?

6. Which is the best commercial Limoncello to buy?

7. I love Italian driving culture. Especially in Naples. It is very fluid and comfortable to drive.

8. Do you put minced meat in pasta together with napoletana or basilico souces?

9. Ciao, ciao. Ho studiato italiano un po’, m’interessano i dialetti. Quando ascolto qualcuno dalla Sicilia mi sembre come un’altra lingua. Anche, quello che ho studiato (settentrionale) non si usa tanto, mi sembre. Sono andata a Passignano per Palio delle barche da molti anni e loro parlano abbastanza differente. Accorciano le parole che ovviamente è ok, lo fanno tutti, però l’articolazione delle voci è diversa. Molto interessante, alla fine della linea.

   (Scusa per gli errori, non ho parlato o scritto l’italiano da tanto tempo).

10. What do you think about Croats in general?

11. I’ve been in Taormina… driving from Catania airport towards Taormina was…… interesting. 😀

    Also.. Maneskin ftw.

    And Forza Ferrari! Is this our year finally?

12. https://youtu.be/_YZtic6ZJEI

13. Ciao! In the honor of San Remo week, does anyone have any Italian singers/music to reccomend? I will listen to any genre, i wanna expand my music to other languages!

14. Is mafia still considered to be influental in Italy and is this organisation still posing a threat to regular people in southern Italy?

15. Are there any descendants of esuli on r/italy? I am interested in the personal stories of your grandparents about their former life in Istria, Fiume/Rijeka, Dalmatia, etc. Do your grandparents use words that are not used in Italy?

    I am also interested in whether you, as their descendants, are connected to their homeland. Have you ever visited your grandparents’ birthplaces? Did you feel some kind of connection with your roots there?

16. How do you feel about your current prime minister? How do you feel about her [fascist views and territorial pretensions](https://imgur.com/a/04fm3Kr)?

    How do you feel about Tajani and his [repeated fascist remarks](https://n1info.hr/english/news/a369823-ep-president-tajani-says-andquotitalian-istria-and-dalmatiaandquot-remark-was-misinterpreted/)?

17. Hi! I’ll be living in Rome for the next 5 months, do you have any advice on what I should do, or even better, what I shouldn’t do while I’m there. Thanks!

18. How is Croatia percived in your history books given the many conflicts between Italians (mainly Venice) and Dalmatians

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20. Ciao,
    saluti da Spalato. Scusate se non scrivo in italiano, sono pessimo in ortografia quindi ci vorrebbe molto tempo. Ho un paio di domande.

    1. How is English taught in your schools? Lot of Italians when they come for Ferragosto to Dalmatia don’t (or don’t want to) speak English.

    2. Is it true that Juventus is at the same time club with the most fans across Italy (outside of Torino) but at the same time the most hated by other fans.

    3. I love Italian music (80s, 90s, 00s). Local radio often plays Maneskin and Ciao Ciao (song from SanRemo couple of years ago) and especially classics from Laura Pausini, Ricchi e Poveri, Toto Cutugno, Jovanotti, Eros Ramazzotti, etc. Are they still popular in Italy, do they get played on radio (I am referring to these older singer)? Who’s the most popular singer at the moment?

    Bonus fun fact about music: Many croatian artists made covers of Italian songs in Croatian. Many of those covers became very very popular. Couple of the most popular examples:

    [Vesna Pisarović – Da znaš](https://youtu.be/GONWYzuXoLM) = [Laura Pausini – Non C’e](https://youtu.be/ZHVdScgUm7U)

    [Oliver – Trag u beskraju](https://youtu.be/a1ntcOHewkg) = [Biago Antonacci – Se è vero che ci sei](https://youtu.be/h1bNKVptliA)

    [Oliver – Lijepa bez duše](https://youtu.be/vn-vC4zxW7o) = [Riccardo Cocciante – Bella senz’anima](https://youtu.be/Rpv32GUxvcg)

    [Jura Stublić & Film – Lijepo neopisivo](https://youtu.be/FdaEh4MNRsE) = [Gianna Nannini – Bello e impossibile](https://youtu.be/UWBDIq1vdwc)

    [Goran Karan – Splitska serenada](https://youtu.be/9AZI6Wk6p54) = [Lucio Dalla – Canzone](https://youtu.be/VkTNnCCKnE4)

    [Tomislav Ivčić & Meri Cetinić – Gorka rijeka](https://youtu.be/3iuNnGCwpBs) = [Iva Zanicchi – Un fiume amaro](https://youtu.be/j69NsrQd1vs)

    [Tereza – Za jedan tren](https://youtu.be/L9E_pZPDHwQ) = [Anna Oxa – E’Tutto un attimo](https://youtu.be/_f6qwSbDT5Q)

    And my favorite, these two songs are sung on every Hajduk game (local club from Split/Spalato I support) with different lyrics

    [Hajduk fans – Kad si prvi na kraju sezone/ Quando sei primo alla fine della stagione](https://youtu.be/zJF2eZSZ81k) = [Marcella Bella – Montagne verdi](https://youtu.be/6lZql998YHk)

    [Hajduk fans – Samo tebe volim ja / Tu sei l’unico che amo](https://youtu.be/JW8k4FeAsv8) and [Torca voli samo Hajduk Spalato / Torca (ultras di Hajduk) piace solo l’hajduk spalato](https://youtu.be/kfzEFZk1jGY) = [Dario Baldan Bembo – Amico E](https://youtu.be/5vFXJT2qc_E)

21. Oh right, you know we can see Apenines from across the Adriatic on a very clear day, from higher up. Has any of you ever seen Dinarics from Italy?

22. Ciao, cari amici! I’m going to a short vacation in two weeks to Italy. Going first skiing to South Tyrol / Trentino for two days (San Felice / Senale), then 5 days to Veneto / FVG / ER / Lombardy.

    Do you have any recommendations? Where to go? What to see and do? Where to eat? We are 9, the extended family with 2 children and even my old mother and father (so no hiking in the mountains please)

    The plan so far is, after South Tyrol, to rent a house near the tri-border between Veneto / Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy and to make daily trips for 5 days to the towns of those regions. What towns would you recommend and which attractions to see?

    Any tips for South Tyrol? We have two evenings with no plans.

23. Some fun facts:

    – people of Dalmatia and Istria traditionally play briscola and tressette

    – Alan Ford was the most popular comic book in Croatia during the 70’s and 80’s

    – Italian music is relatively popular in Croatia, but in the 80’s San Remo festival was on national television

    – bacalla is a thing also in Croatia (especially along the Adriatic)

    – we also consume and produce lots of Mortadella

24. I was 5 months in Italy, I tried use tinder / bumble / badoo / facebook dating. I spoke with only 1 italian girl in 5 months. How is that possible? I had no problems getting matches in croatia / usa.

25. What is the best mortadella brand?

26. As I was thinking about what to write here, I realised that I have Cose Della Vita playing on my Youtube hehehe…