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    Culture Briefing: Italy - Your Guide To Italian Culture and Customs
    Culture Briefing: Italy - Your Guide To Italian Culture and Customs
    Culture Briefing: Italy - Your Guide To Italian Culture and Customs
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    Culture Briefing: Italy - Your Guide To Italian Culture and Customs

    By Bob Martin

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    Culture Briefing: Italy provides current, in-depth information found in no other single publication to help you understand the culture, customs, values and beliefs of the Italian people. Whether traveling to Italy, working on a class paper or doing business with the Italians, you'll find Culture Briefing: Italy an invaluable resource. If you're traveling to the country, supplement your travel guide with Culture Briefing: Italy. It will let you enrich your trip, giving you knowledge about Italian etiquette and traditions — and more financial success when traveling on business. You'll also receive the information you need to help you feel comfortable in what might otherwise be a strange environment, including a list of do's and don'ts. You'll gain the wisdom necessary to talk intelligently with the Italians, discussing the life they live, deciphering and interpreting how they think and behave. No longer will you run the risk of embarrassment when in conversation with the Italian people because you brought up a taboo subject, couldn’t comment on an aspect of local life or knew nothing of their form of government. With Culture Briefing: Italy you'll discover the character, values, beliefs and customs of the Italians. You'll learn of their artistic endeavors and political ways. You'll find out about their home, family and religious life as well as how they make a living, educate their children and spend their leisure time. You'll also discover the problems the Italian people face and see how they handle them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBob Martin
    Release dateMay 7, 2013
    ISBN9781301916177
    Culture Briefing: Italy - Your Guide To Italian Culture and Customs
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    Bob Martin

    Bob Martin, creator of the Culture Briefing series, has lived in Asia, Africa and Europe. He has also written and edited college textbooks and training lessons for the travel industry, newsletters for travel consumers and travel articles for newspapers and magazines, including: Accent magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Buffalo News, The Christian Science Monitor, The Miami Herald, Milwaukee Journal, Off Duty magazine, The Orlando Sentinel and Travel-Holiday magazine. Currently he writes articles and e-books in the areas of travel, exploration and adventure.

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      Culture Briefing - Bob Martin

      Culture Briefing: Italy

      Your guide to Italian culture and customs

      By Bob Martin

      http://www.CultureBriefings.com

      Published by the Geotravel Research Center at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013-2021 Bob Martin

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This edition is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      Fast Facts

      HISTORY

      The Roman Empire

      The Renaissance

      A Unified Italy

      The Mussolini Era

      The Italian Republic

      THE ITALIAN PEOPLE

      Customs and Ways

      Do’s and Don’ts

      Conducting Business

      Subcultures

      Class Distinctions

      Language

      HOME AND FAMILY

      Marriage

      Family Size

      The Role of Women

      Health and Welfare

      Dress

      Food and Dining

      EDUCATING THE CHILDREN

      RELIGIOUS PRACTICES

      MAKING A LIVING

      Industry

      Agriculture

      PASSING LEISURE TIME

      Festivals

      Sports

      THE ARTS

      Renaissance

      Literature

      Music

      POLITICAL WAYS

      Local Administration

      Parties

      USEFUL INTERNET LINKS

      Italy News Sources

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      INTRODUCTION

      Italy is a modern, industrialized country, and most Italians enjoy a high standard of living.

      Since World War II, Italy has developed from a primarily agricultural nation into one of the world’s eight major industrialized countries. Many businesses in Italy, though, are family owned. Relative to other strong industrial nations, Italy has few multinational corporations.

      With regard to language and religion, Italy is a homogeneous country, but it is quite diverse culturally, economically and politically. Before 1860, what is now Italy was a land of regional cultures and varied states, living together inharmoniously and often in outright war. As a result, each region has its own history and cultural background.

      Italy’s distinctive, boot-shaped peninsula juts from southern Europe into the central Mediterranean Sea. It is a mountainous country. The Alps run across the northern border, and the Appeninne Mountains run the length of the peninsula.

      The country is about 700 miles (1,127 kilometers) long and ranges from 95 (153 kilometers) to 155 miles (249 kilometers) wide. It’s peninsula location gives it a coastline extending 4,560 miles (7,338 kilometers).

      In addition to the peninsula, the Italian nation includes the Mediterranean islands of Sardinia and Sicily, both of which are also mountainous. Sardinia rises from the Mediterranean about 120 miles (193 kilometers) off the mainland’s southwest coast. Sicily sits just off the boot’s toe.

      The country completely surrounds two independent nations — San Marino and the State of Vatican City, which is located within the Italian capital city of Rome.

      As with many long, narrow countries, Italy has a decided north-south split. The south is considered to be that portion of the country extending south from just below Rome. About a third of the population lives in the south.

      Northern Italy tends to be home to heavy industry. Southern regions lean more toward agriculture, although the northern Po River basin holds some of the country’s richest farmland.

      Northern and southern Italians typically have different temperaments. There is also uneven wealth distribution. The north is far richer than the south, where unemployment is consistently high and organized crime discourage investment.

      Italy’s problems include illegal immigration, a struggle against organized crime and high unemployment and lower wages in southern Italy compared to the more prosperous north.

      Fast Facts

      Official Name: Italian Republic

      Capital: Rome

      Official Language: Italian

      Chief of State: President Sergio MATTARELLA

      Head of Government: Prime Minister Giuseppe CONTE

      Population (est., July 2021): 62,390,364

      Population Increase per Year (est., 2021): 0.09%

      Percent of Population Under 15 (est., 2020): 13.45%

      Life Expectancy (est., 2021): 82.67 years

      Infant Mortality (est., 2021): 3.14 deaths/1,000 live births

      Literacy (2018): 99.2%

      Gross Domestic Product per Capita (est., 2019): US$42,492

      GDP Growth Rate (est., 209): 0.34%

      Population Below Poverty Line (est., 2018): 20.1%

      Percent of Work Force in

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