{"id":5206,"date":"2017-08-08T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-12T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T19:23:09","slug":"so-your-character-is-from-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/so-your-character-is-from-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"So Your Character is from Italy … Featuring Emily @ Little Black Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s time for this week’s So Your Character is … Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a crash course on how to write a character from these different places on our planet. If you haven’t checked out last week’s  So Your Character is from Bolivia … be sure to hop on over there and give it a read!<\/span>
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<\/span>My dad’s side of the family has direct Italian origins, so I grew up with a lot of stories about his Sicilian grandparents and eating a lot of authentic Italian food. I’m so glad I found Emily so I can learn even more about this amazing country!<\/span>
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<\/span>Disclaimer: The content below may be culturally shocking to some. Each of these posts are as uncensored as possible to preserve the authenticity of the cultures of each of the interviewees.<\/span>
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\nMy name is Emily and I am 24. I live in a small village near Vicenza, in Veneto, in the North-East of Italy. Actually, I am working in a McDonald’s restaurant. In my free time I am a musician, I play violin and piano and I cannot stay without listening to music for long. I love computer games, board games, and roleplaying games (D&D<\/i>, Pathfinder<\/i>, and World of Darkness<\/i> in particular). Yes, I am a little bit of a gamer, and I am an Otaku, I love anime and manga. I love also writing and cosplay.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\nWhat do you feel is unique to your country? Landmarks? Celebrations?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\nI will be frank. Italy has beautiful landmarks: the mountains of the North, the Po valley and the sea of the South, but what I think is unique in my country is historical art. Italy is full of wonderful monuments, sculptures, and classical music. I have often heard that Italy is an old country (with negative spirit) but I am sure that this is its beauty instead. <\/div>\n
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\nMy favorite sculptor is Canova. I love his sculpture \u201cLove and Psyche\u201d, it gives me a beautiful sense of harmony between the two characters and especially a beautiful feeling of love. Unfortunately, it is in the museum of Louvre, in Paris (bad Napoleon!) but I had the possibility to see it once at least. As a musician, I cannot forget to tell you my favorite composer: the violinist Giuseppe Tartini. I really love \u201cDevil\u2019s trill\u201d, his most famous sonata. In Italy, only who play violin knows him but it is a pity! <\/div>\n
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\nLiving in the Northern Italy I see every day mountains and woods and I like them especially the woods. Near my house, I have a little wood where sometimes I go walking. I like stay there it is tranquil and at the same time rowdy because of the birds, in particular when it is spring. However, I love also the sea of the South. So clear and so magic I really love it.<\/div>\n
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\nThis is, for me, a very difficult question\u2026I think Italian cooking is the best of the world. I love cooking, and I am always discovering new recipes to cook. One of my favorite dishes is Lasagna. Here in Italy, when we say, \u201cCome my home, we will eat a good slice of lasagna,\u201d we mean, \u201cYou are part of my family\u201d. Another dish is pasta pasticciata, a sort of lasagna, but made with any kind of pasta (fusilli, penne, conchiglioni, tortiglioni, etc.). I love also vegetables, especially in soups or grilled. <\/div>\n
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\n Tell me about any different speech patterns in your country. Slang? Idioms? Words for things such as \u201cbiscuits\u201d instead of \u201ccookies\u201d?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\nHere in Italy, we have many dialects, at least one per region and often we have different dialects into the same region. It makes me smile when I listen to the radio or to the TV news Italian people speaking with their particular accent and quickly recognize from where they come from.<\/div>\n
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