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Italian service and stereotypes

waiters in the world than italians and how does your opinion compare to the kind of cliched general populate populous opinion of italians in britain hey i think that um we've al...

Course: Britain and other culturesSection: British views of ItaliansSubtitles: en

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greater

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waiters

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in the world than italians and how does

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your opinion compare to

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the kind of cliched general populate

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populous opinion of italians in britain

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hey i think that um we've always got a

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real soft spot for italians because i

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think much of so my first experience of

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all things italians as a scotsman was

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going to vazoki's ice cream and carrie

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muir and seeing just this wonderful

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wealth of flavors that you know your

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home you wouldn't get and so that

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italianness would come through and a lot

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of people as we grew up and then you

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take the chance to to travel and see it

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in italy and it it's the same again but

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a thousand fold more we have the same

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channel but in italy asking the opposite

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question

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what do you think italians will say when

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they ask questions what do they think of

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brits i don't really know well i guess

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i'd like to think it'll be good but

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like

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oh

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i guess on the same sort of like

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football

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we're not very nice in football yeah i

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think like the football fans aren't the

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football fans haven't been that nice no

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certainly right because of the brewing

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and stuff oh yeah

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so

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so maybe they're getting the wrong

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perception of them yeah we have a team

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with easy italian that are making the

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same counter questions british people

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what are they thinking

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