Very many cultural differences.

I will reply to that. My father is Italian..my Mother is Norweigen. Talk about differant culters coming together. They compliment each other very well.I got a kick out holidays.my granparents came from Poppi in 1920. My Father is always right as far as he thinks..lol.My Mother is so mellow,when she is right she just smiles and nods.
I think as far as being misunderstood,well we all know better than to try and prove them wrong.

My mother is also from Norway, my father second generation Italian. The only thing they had in common was a love for baccala/lutefisk...

villa with no bidet

Hi everybody! First of all I apologize for my unsure english...
I'm a woman, italian, 32 years old.
I'm married with a senegalese man: we have different culture, traditions, religions, way of life...
I have to say that reading about "cultures' obstacles" and differences between an american woman and an italian man (just to do an example), is something that makes me laugh!
God... ! I don't think we belong to such distant worlds and cultures...
Maybe i'm wrong, maybe it's just because i'm living a deeper and absolutely harder interexchanging situation... but I do think that we can have at least only different cooks and languages... nothing so impossible!

p.s.: when I read about "la bella vita" I always wonder what You really mean.. I usually wake up early in the morning, i work hard, i come back home after working for 9 hours, I cook, I clean house... and that's every day.. where's bella vita?
Sometimes, reading Your comments, it seems that all italian people work only tree hours per day and then they lay freely and stressless at the beach or in a pub drinking a cappuccino...