Research Paper On Italy

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Italy’s Culture Ciao! This is Italian for “Hello!” The culture of Italy is a of particular interest to me because all of my dad’s side of the family is Italian and has Italian ancestry. My father’s Grandparents were born and raised in Italy, and spoke all Italian. Italy has the most romantic people in the whole word, just before Paris. Some cultural practices that they do in Italy, is that their most popular sport is “football” or soccer. Although my family is a Italian family, we don’t always practice or do customs that people from Italy would do. It is very great and exciting to know where my ancestors lived, and how beautiful this country is. Italy is located in Europe. It’s also a very religious place, with the most religion as Catholics. Over 60 million people live in this beautiful country. One of the most popular, and what Italy is known for as their crop, is Olives. “Olives and Olive Oil are perhaps the most important ingredients in Italy”. …show more content…
Another norm or cultural practice Italy has is that “football” or soccer is a big thing there, and there is a thing called FIFA, which is soccer their most famous team or group in soccer. Religion is very common in Italy. Most of the religion in Italy is Catholics and Roman Catholics. The food in Italy is very made from scratch and unique. Some foods that they have from Italy are Chicken Parmesan, Pizza, Lasagna and many more that are mostly from scratch and Italian. Their government isn’t the best. They have changed their government so much, that they have changed it probably every year! “The country elected 59 governments between the first elections after World War 2 and 2003- roughly one government a year”. Soccer in Italy or “football” is very famous and is very popular in this beautiful country. Another cultural practice or norm is the “Epiphany”, which is a holiday in January where you have parades and symbolize the birth of

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