They are Sicilians first, Europeans second, Italians third. Beyond a handful of culinary similarities, the cultural differences between Sicilians and their paesanos to the north are pretty stark. Sicilians view northerners as cold, arrogant, and suffocatingly formal. Northerners, in turn, say Sicilians are overly excitable and untrustworthy. We’ll stay out of the war of stereotypes and just say that everywhere we went we found Sicilians with huge hearts and open arms. And if you can rattle off a few words in Sicilian dialect, they may just invite you to dinner.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:38:49 +0000
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