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The Xenophobe's Guide to the Italians: The Xenophobe's Guides Series (Xenophobe's Guides) (Xenophobe's Guides)
by: Martin Solly

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9781902825359
ISBN: 1902825357
Label: Oval Books
Manufacturer: Oval Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: March 01, 1999
Publisher: Oval Books
Studio: Oval Books
Sales Rank: 184964

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Update
As an Italian myself I find this book quite funny. The guide is accurate most of the time but tend to refer to stereotypes or to Italians as they were 50 or more years ago! I think this guide needs a little update as do others of the same series I have read (English and French.

Rating:

- On the button!
When we moved to Italy someone bought us this book. What a gem! I lent it to my new-found Italian friend who speaks a little English. He made many comments in the margins saying 'This isn't true!' or 'This can't be right!'. We had a hilarious conversation where he admitted that everything was in fact true, or nearly. He just couldn't admit it! Very Italian!

Rating:

- Concise and Informative
The Xenophobes guide to the Italians is a concise, humorous and informative look at the Italian people and their way of life. Among the topics that are mentioned are the importance of regional identities, the North/South divide, and the importance of the family in Italian life, as well as many other things.
The book uses stereotypes and generalizations to describe the people, so it cannot, and should not, account for all Italians. An example of this is in the section writing about how the rest of the world sees Italy - "The typical stereotype of the Italians is that of a noisy, passionate, scheming Mediterranean people, whose brilliance and inventiveness are unfortunately marred by laziness and unreliability".
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- Excellent summary of a crazy nation
Haven't tried any of the other xenophobe's guides yet, but this one really hits the mark - in most amusing fashion - in describing the eccentricities of my Italian girlfriend and her family. Allegria, campanilismo, la mamma: it's all here.

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