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Family and Community Relationships
Cooking together, Italians build strong relationships/connections through cooking traditional family recipes with one another.

Popular Italian Dishes:

Spaghetti and meatballs (Ragu alla Bolognese in Italian)

Focaccia

Risotto

Lasagne

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Social Identity: “the individual meets larger collective bodies, or groups of affiliation” (93).

Regional Differences:
North:

Big cities associated with much more fast paced life

industrial and technological.

cosmopolitan/urban areas

More populous

People tend to be more business oriented

South:

smaller towns, traditionally more family oriented

slower paced

More rural

Older demographic

More local businesses

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Kinesics: “the study of body movement, including gestures, posture, and facial expressions of emotion” (pg.162).

Italians are renowned for their expressive body language. By communicating with their hands and eyes.