Heroes and Cultural Identity Project
Italian Cultural Identity
The following generational questionnaire was given to a group of Italian students about changes in the Itallian cultural identity.
| Students, their parents and their grandparents (if existing) were asked to list, in order, the items according to their importance. | You | Your parents |
Your grandparents |
| Family | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Fatherland | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Religion | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| Friendship | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Career | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Popularity | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| How do /did you like to spend your sparetime ? | Biking Music sports friends touring with the family videogames |
Family Cinema Decoupage Books Watching movies music |
Family Country billiards |
| Which is/was your main food ? | Pasta Pizza Fish Chips Pizza Vegetables Meat Homemade pasta |
Pasta Meat Fish Homemade pasta |
Pasta Meat Goat Vegetables Potatoes Homemade pasta |
| What are/were your dreams ? | Good job to visit Australia Beautiful house to study at a college A beautiful Italy without violence and crime a beautiful family a beautiful car to be happy a good future for the children to become old and have no regrets |
The best for their children To study at the university to win the lottery to travel to be happy a house for their children a good job their children to become good men to enjoy the pension |
The best for their family To live quietly and decently until their death to be happy to travel to enjoy the nephew |
| Why is/was Italy famous for in the world (in your opinion?) |
Food Monuments history Soccer Spaghetti Pizza Mafia Low desire to change Rome St.Peter's Traditions |
Made in Italy Artists Food Pasta Monuments traditions
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History Pizza Mafia Monuments Sea The behaviour of the royal family at the end of the II WW |
| If you think about your country what is the first word that comes to mind? |
Creativity Beautiful Dirty Corruption Degradation Home Unbeatable Too much freedom art |
Poverty Art Hard life Home Sun and sea corruption |
Beautiful Wonderful Rome Italia Hunger |
