Cultural Differences Spain-Italy Nervi is often said that the English and Italians are very similar. Instead, there are differences oalcune surprise and impact. To me, to take by surprise today and in theory to some things I should already be accustomed to.
Maybe the most notable difference is the usual way of greeting in one country to another, given that Spain is the most typical:
Girls: two kisses on the cheeks, regardless of whether the other person is a boy or a girl.
Children: two kisses on the cheeks, a shake of hands for the boys.
And the kisses are given from left to right. In Italy, however, give you kisses, usually from right to left, and also takes place in a different way: I give you two kisses between persons of the same sex. Between boys and girls a shake of hands. In fact, I already knew that the last Once I went to Milan, and instead, when a friend of mine introduced me to two of his friends and I have shaken his hand, was normal for them, but I was a bit cold, even though I knew it was before you go.
Another difference can be seen per hour of drinking a coffee. Normally, we Spaniards, when we ask for a coffee, and that's all we ask. The Italians also ask for a glass of water. And not only with coffee but also with food. It surprised me a lot in his time, and I asked a friend. He told me this:
"In ancient times, in fact you already brought the glass of water with the coffee. Now you pay separately. However, with normally bring you a coffee biscuit. So, before you eat the cookie after you drink a glass of water to clean the remnants of the taste, and then you drink the coffee. The coffee should taste it without having the remains of other flavors in the mouth. " The explanation has its logic, even though I was surprised. I never thought of.
The times are different. In fact, times of Spaniards are strange to most of the rest of the Europeans. The Italians usually eat between eleven and a half and one and a half, and dine between seven and nine. We, however, eat between one and a half three, and we have dinner between ten and twelve ...
Finally, another major cultural difference is the language enough Hilights gesture. In reality, we all sometimes communicate with gestures. But in Italy, during the period prior to unification, in which each had its own language, the language and gestures developed much nowadays continues to be a very large vocabulary.
