France.

Culture Characteristics

The official language of France is Italian, though dialects differ from city to city. The Florentin and roman dialects had a major influence on modern Italian.

80% of Italians are christians and the majority are roman caltholics.

The Italians date in groups or as couples. Marriage is respected, the bride and groom can not see each other the day before the wedding. Italian families have structure.

For recreation they play sports like soccer, for leiasure time they go to the beach, the countryside, movies, dances and other social events.

Food and Dining

Italians usually eat in the continental style with the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right.

Italians try to get together for dinner and they eat around 7 or 8 in the north and 8 or 9 in the south. Breakfast is usually light, they don´t really eat lunch that much. They do eat heavy dinners, this is becoming more common.

Attitudes and values

There is improved economic and social conditions in southern regions and the influence of the media, differences between the northern and the southern italians are diminishing.

Italians typically consider social interaction important. Italians tend to value family, their health, serenity and financial security.

Taboos and social norms

It´s taboo to talk about about personal things, for example ¨what do you do for a living?¨, ¨do you have children?¨. It is also taboo to talk about money to anyone less than an aquaintance.

Social norms consists of kissing, minding your vous and tu´s, bringing gifts to your hosts house, and heated discussions.

Cultural landscape

In france most of the people live in it’s capital paris, because paris is mostly crop land which is benificial. In france they eat more fish because they are closer to water.

They make amazing wine this is because they fresh fertile soil. Baguettes are the most important part of any french meal. Every religion in france has it’s own kind of wine and bread.

Cultural landmarks and other fun facts

The eiffel tower, it is named after Alexadre Gustave Eiffel, originally built to honor the french revolution for the world exhibition in 1889.

Notre-damede paris is a Cathedral churchnin paris.