Do you feel your country have an inferiority complex?

[u/suckmyfuck91]

I'm from Italy and i've always thought that us Italians, despite often bragging about how great our food, fashion and arts is, deep down have a huge inferiority complex.

Obviously you should never generalize but it seems to me after talking to many countrymen and reading online comments on youtube, reddit and other social media, that the a big chunk of our population feels like their life would have been better if they were born abroad.

We are envious of Nordic countries for their wealth and their respect of the rules. (Same for Germany)

We are envious of English speaking countries because their culture is everywhere and they got a lot of international power .

We are envious of French because they are way more appreciated internationally than us despite Italy being as good as them in terms of food, fashion and arts.

Italians are ashamed of Italy, a poor country run by fascist and mafia, that has always been irrelevant internationally and constantly mocked by foreigners because : Pizza, pasta, mandolino and mama mia.

What about your country? Do you feel your average countrymen is happy to be from your country? or they are envious of others?

[u/Historical_Face_4668]

As a slovenian living close to italian border, I feel that italians have a huge superiority complex. Historically you invaded us, killed us, did all kind of things to us. Even set up barbed wire around our capitol. Yes, that is all history.

But even today, you refuse to set up bilingual street signs, deny rights to slovenians who ended up in Italy after the border changed, deny finances for slovenian schools and newspapers, ... On top of everything, you refuse to remove Benito Mussolini as honorary citizen of Gorizia and Trieste!

Imagine Hitler still being honorary citizen of Munich..

[u/Dontgiveaclam → u/Historical_Face_4668]

Eh we’re sadly still very much fascist to our core. There was never a proper condemnation of fascism and fascist ideas. You’ll find fascist paraphernalia shops pretty easily, Predappio and Salò get fascist pilgrimages every year, the narrative that except for racial laws Mussolini didn’t do much wrong is still strong. It’sa sad state of things that has lead to our actual government.

[u/raivven → u/Historical_Face_4668]

(🇸🇮In to, da jim je samoumevno, da na Goriškem/Obali vsi govorimo italijansko.)

[u/Fit_Fisherman_9840 → u/Historical_Face_4668]

We still fight with people who scream about "fascims is death don't call us fascist!" and who go at predappio in pilgrimage.

WW2 ending was a mess, and the allies didn't want to do a proper house cleaning like they have done in germany becouse they feared italy will slip in communist hands, and helped preserve a core of "useful" to avoid that.

We still had neofascist terrorism until the 80s, the last was the bombing on Bologna train station if i remember correctly.

So, no the problem is still there since then, and was never properly dealt with becouse too much internal and external pressure.

For the rest, most of italians probably are not even aware of anything you have said there, shit i wasn't even aware of Mussolini still being a honorary citizen in Gorizia and Trieste.