italian cave salamander the alpine marmot marxican brown bear the crested porcupine
and the national animal the italian wolf otherwise
the italian wolf wow
what's good youtube it is your boy giggle boss here and we are back with another
reaction video for foreign react today we'll be checking out none other than uh italy italy is
actually a country that is pretty close to mine because uh my name is from italy italy and um
i like lamborghini and uh if i'm not mistaken that is where it all started from
so uh italy's uh a country that i know a just a little bit about just a little bit but uh we're
gonna be checking out geography now for italy so uh leave a like in the video and subscribe
i'd really appreciate that share the video i'd really appreciate that even more also and uh
we're gonna do this right now so let's go well i'm personally excited because today we cover
the country where one quarter of my heritage comes from italia there is no such thing as a
single type of italian people from sicilia would almost need a translator to understand people in
veneto napoli looks incredibly different from milano and people from south tyrol are like
uh valmez but for what it's worth italy has definitely made its mark and today we jump in
let's begin baby it's time to learn geography now hey everybody i'm your host barbs derived from
my last name barbato which translates to beard man i'm serious hey laugh all you want but that
just means i might be related to scipio africanus barbatus the guy who defeated hannibal in i think
the second punic war so ha i got victory in my blood now i'm probably related to some ancient
guy that sold barley or something barley that was eaten by sepia africanus who defeated hannibal so
yes i still got it i basically defeated hannibal but where was hannibal defeated let's find out in
in italy it's all about tuteles first of all italy is that boot-shaped country kicking two deflated
soccer balls located in europe at the heart of the mediterranean sea bordered by france
switzerland austria and slovenia in the north and two micro states are completely engulfed
within italy the vatican city and san marino which is like the easiest country to sneak into
like seriously there's a japanese restaurant and a sports store next to the entrance with
no guards with two this makes italy the country with the most other countries enclaved inside of
it south africa was so close with swaziland but then mozambique had to exist oh and there was
that time reggio tried to secede from italy back in the 70s which almost made it three but that's
a whole other story just look it up the country is divided into 20 regions with the capital rome
five of the regions have special autonomous status sardinia sicily trentino alto or tsutiro otherwise
known as south tyrol yaosta valley and friuli venezia giulia the country's largest cities are
of course the capital rome then milano and napoli with the busiest airports being rome leonardo
da vinci fiumecino milan malpensa and bergamo caravaggio international airport in addition i
mean the architecture of those airports i mean this is kind of fancy the two largest islands
sicilia in sardinia the country owns over 350 islands off its coast finally there's that land
dispute with france over the summit of mont blanc and a small little two and a half kilometer long
enclave in switzerland called campione d'italia which is kind of like a special spot
exempt from the eu value-added tax zone which makes sense because it has italy's largest casino
italy you got some complication fanatics going on the funny thing is modern italy once even tried
to take a stab at colonialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with areas stretching
from the balkans northern africa and the horn of africa including a short kind of occupation
of ethiopia but it didn't last that long because the ethiopians fought back relentlessly and to
this day it's back to the boot with two deflated soccer balls guys i'll convert metric for you but
i call it soccer okay the canadian south africans australians kiwis japanese and parts of ireland
and the philippines and papua new guinea all agree with me okay it's not just americans that call it
soccer show okay good luck with that now this is the part where i typically go down the list
of notable sites found in italy however the problem is there are literally too many i'm
not even joking italy has more heritage sites than any other country in the world at over
50. we all know about the big guys so i'm not gonna mention most of them instead through my
extensive research here are some obscure lesser known yet equally fascinating spots worthy of
noting the dining table of bilelante the bombarzo horror garden ip a theme park
made of rides that require your own kinetic energy to operate the necropolis of banditacia
monastery the free wine fountain of camino di san tomaso let that just sink in rewind the relics of
jesus's apostle saint thomas the geothermal waterfalls of tuscany the sunken city of baya
the cliffside town of santa carta de gaulty the sulfuric fields of putsuoli that fortress built by
that crazy guy urbania mummies the custino sword in the stone the nine-layer maze of villa pisani
road of 52 tunnels the pyramid zone of castello the incantato heads carved by a crazy guy there's
a lot of monuments made by crazy people and of course way too many castles fortresses churches
monasteries museums and ancient sites to list but you get the point now let's blast off like a
volcano which italy has into the next segment what i could say is that oh my gosh i dropped my ipad
that's wild anyways what i could say is that you guys could definitely do me a huge favor
and comment some of the uh places in italy that i could actually do a reaction video for those
places specifically with those videos that are already on youtube because i would love to see
some of those castles because you don't really have castles in america you have a little bit of
a little thing looking like that you know what i mean the european side is really where you will
see castles and all those asian looking buildings and it's i want to i want to see it on experience
it because uh yeah i just want to experience it so if you guys have the time just leave a
suggestion or a title of a video or something or i can see some castles or whatever in italy
they do volcanoes off like a volcano which italy has into the next segment shall we
now we all know that italy is insanely beautiful in so many areas everybody wants to see it i mean
even mr and mrs information went there on their honeymoon you're welcome first of all italy's
beauty comes at a cost the country lies just above the convergence of the eurasian and african plates
in the mediterranean but also on the appenin or apanini thrust fault line that smashes
into western europe and that's how the alps were formed basically the alps make like a barrier in
the north with the apanini mountains running along the entire length of the country as like a scoopy
spine until it technically ends in the island of sicilia because italy's mountains are volcanic
fault formed it has created some amazing natural formations like the dolomiti rocks the steep sides
of lake garda the largest lake in italy the umbria valleys the undulating hills of tuscany this also
means that italy is kind of split in half east and west with a major lush basin locked in the north
that receives an abundance of fresh snow cap water melt creating rivers like the longest one the po
river located in the aptly named po valley this valley extends about 650 kilometers 400 miles all
the way from the french border to the adriatic sea which ends at a little city you may have heard of
called venezia or venice this also means that italy is a volcanic country to this day there
are about 30 volcanoes three known active ones aetna stromboli and the famous vesuvius making it
the most densely populated and potentially deadly volcanic region in the world it's like yeah i know
i could die but oh man the pizza here is totally worth it speaking of which about a quarter of
the land is arable allowing them to grow lots of food i'm sure you are fully aware of the
typical italian dishes however each region kind of specializes in a certain cuisine in the north you
have foods like polenta gnocchi white truffles the gloria has great pesto and in south tyrol you have
germanic inspired dishes like noodle dumplings and strudel in the center you have things like lasagna
boar artichokes lamb steak gelato pasta which comes in over 600 variations indisputably the
best wine is in toscana the south is the pizza kingdom and napoli is like the capital sardinia
is known for those cool cheese fritter dumpling things italy enjoys a mild mediterranean climate
only snowing in the north and high altitude areas now despite deforestation and pollution being
an issue and venice flooding almost every year now italy is actually the most fauna biodiverse
country in europe with over 57 thousand species recorded that's about a third of all european
fauna about 4 800 are endemic like the sardinian red deer the italian cave salamander the alpine
marmot marxican brown bear the crested porcupine and the national animal the italian wolf otherwise
the italian wolf wow
i uh could you have one of those as pet i don't know maybe maybe not maybe not but
uh italian wolf oh that's pretty interesting i've never heard of that before italian wolf
eighth largest gdp that's not too bad italy largest nominal gdp in the world and the eighth
largest exporter italy's economy is heavily driven off of industry and production specifically in
luxury items major world-renowned companies like fiat lamborghini ferrari maserati ducati pirelli
armani and versace dolce gabbana gucci and prada are key players in keeping italy afloat in many
ways there's kind of like a sense of class that's almost expected with being italian no matter how
intense things may get you don't just waltz in here with your shoes unpolished which brings us to
i like that i like that now being italian we've all heard the stereotypes loud passionate hand
gesturing bad driving temperate sensitive clean freaks that never follow the rules and
as offensive as that may sound it's kind of based off of truth but with good reasoning we'll explain
in a bit but first italy has about 61 million people in their country and they are the 61. yo
61 million people bro that's a lot of people i do know that america has a lot more though but
i didn't think italy was any size compared to america
yeah that's a lot of people busy one million in europe that's crazy that's that's that's nice
third most populous country in the eu after the whole brexit thing and the sixth in all of europe
getting the exact ethnic makeup in italy is a little difficult because italy is a lot more
diverse than you would think about 92 percent of the country identifies as ethnically italian
although keep in mind that's kind of a broad term considering how many different types and shades of
italian there are but nonetheless italian whereas about two percent are romanian one percent north
african and the rest of the country is made up of a slew of global people groups everything
from albanian eritrean chinese and ukrainians they also use the euro the type c plug outlet and they
drive on the right side as well now when it comes to italy it basically comes down to two things
north and south southerners like to jokingly call northerners polentoni based off of the polenta
that they eat and likewise northerners like to call southerners tyroni which i actually don't
even know where that's based off of my research kind of ended there if you know type it in the
comments basically the north is like where all the financial districts and stereotypical uppity
preppy people live whereas the south is kind of like where the rustic tough people live plus you
know the south is kind of like mafia territory oh come on everybody already knows it you have
the costa nostra in sicilia in calabria komora in campagna sakura corona unita and puglia don't
worry though if you visit as a tourist you should be fine it's not much of a big deal anymore i mean
unless you start a mob war by yourself nothing will pretty much happen so no starting mob wars
okay got it there are so many different dialects and subgroups like south tyrol mostly speaks
german kind of aosta valley speaks french sort of no but seriously the standard italian language
spoken and taught today is based off of the florentine version of tuscan italian which is kind
of like an intermediate between the gala romance dialects of the north and the italo-dalmatian
dialects of the south this all happened because prior to italian unification the country was
split between multiple kingdoms and states each with their own semi-latin based language which
made communication a little bit of a challenge for example in standard italian you might say
but in sicilian the unisi in standard ciao but in venetian in standard in lombard peru this is one
of the reasons why italians attribute the creation of the famous italian hand gestures people would
travel barely 50 kilometers and find themselves in a hard to understand dialect region so essentially
they had to kind of get their point across fast they're just saying that italians have lartedi
or the art of arranging which translates to something like the art of figuring it out on
your own when words fail hands succeed there's no specific code but some general that makes
a lot of sense because if somebody's not capable of understanding what you're saying hand gestures
is really used to uh make somebody feel you know a little bit more welcome like okay
this is what i mean and such and such and such i'm going north i'm going south
you know hand gesture is pretty pretty pretty good thing so i do
understand where he's coming from with the uh complexity of the uh various dialect languages
gestures include things like mi dispiace
perfecto and speaking of societal background we don't have enough time to explain the entire
history of italy but in the quickest way i can put it etruscans romans christianity ridiculous amount
of separate kingdoms and feudal states barbarian invasions byzantines medieval kingdoms renaissance
napoleonic invasions sardinia piedmont unifies italy after three independence wars or four
depending on who you ask mass emigration to other countries begins world war one fascism world war
ii resistance movement after war economic boom 2008 crisis which brings us here today basically
the epicenter of ancient rome was here hence the capital being named rome speaking of which even
though the italian monarchy ended long ago there are still two descendants that still exist today
acting as air appearance the catholic church has played a major role in italy even to this day
almost every single town has at least one church about 88 of the country identifies as
catholic however only a third say they are active practitioners on a weekly basis and
one of the reasons why italy has made such a universal mark is partially because between
the late 1800s and early 1900s italy experienced a mass emigration in which over the years around
25 million left this is considered the largest mass migration of contemporary times suddenly
you have new communities of italians all over the world in places like brazil argentina the
us uk and france oh wow this video is running long and i didn't even get to talk about the
deadly calcio florentino game of florence or the santa maria delle grazie snake festival
opera poopy and sicilia so many cool things but we gotta move on some little yeah i gotta tell
you about those stuff that you just mentioned with that guy getting punched in the face man
y'all gotta tell me about that in please man people either from italy or of italian
descent might include people like cicero michelangelo leonardo da vinci dante alighieri
nicolo machiavelli tanatello caravaggio galileo galilei christopher columbus americo vespucci
enzo ferrari donatello versace giorgio armani mainstream american artist of italian descent
might include so many stars like frank sinatra robert de niro al pacino sylvester
stallone leonardo dicaprio steve buscemi quentin tarantino ariana grande lady gaga
even nicholas cage has some italian in him again italian people have such a
strong and solid history and culture but what does the rest of the world think
of them and what do they think about their neighbors well that brings us to
italy is a really great guy once you get to know him but that's just the thing you gotta do
al dente style first of all france is like their best frenemy they smile at each other but secretly
they're always trying to compete with who has the highest class and elegance they also hate the fact
that france has leonardo da vinci's mona lisa nonetheless with historical bumps like world war
ii they still cooperate well today argentina is like their adoptive daughter that they sent to
spanish boarding school but they still fiercely refuse to make friends with their neighbors as
mentioned in the argentina video the majority and largest demographic of people in argentina
have italian heritage and they love doing business with italy malta and san marino are
kind of seen as like their little sons that they love helping out even though san marino is like
way older than the modern unified state of italy but that's besides the point they think it's cute
how malta speaks their own language that kind of incorporates italian words and san marino's like
their good luck charm whom more or less has always been peaceful and drama-free since the 4th century
of course the vatican is like a unique player that they pay their respects to but will not give the
opportunity to raise another empire and hence they keep them confined to the basilica grounds
in terms of their best friends though literally every italian i talked to has said the exact same
two countries greece and spain as mentioned in the greece episode they live by the una fatsa unrazza
rule one face one race these three countries make the trinity of the mediterranean you
know it's going to be a good time when you put a spaniard and a greek and italian in the same room
nothing can one face one race that's that's really something i would love to adopt because
i hate this whole i hate the division like i hate it it's really annoying for me because
you know everybody's like oh i mocked that culture i hate this i hate that you suck you suck you are
i'm amazing you're not not we're all amazing or we all suck it's just it's just one thing
and i like that one face one race i love that unity stop them they own the seas they trade
they share stories they drink together they marry the crap out of each other
in conclusion for centuries italy has been a beacon of art literature fashion architecture
history religion cuisine traditions and landmarks to the rest of the world and personally i'm proud
to be a part of it but most importantly i'm proud that my barley selling bearded ancestors basically
killed hannibal and save the universe and i get to take like at least 40 of their credits
so basically i saved the universe totally true not made up 100 facts stay tuned the ivory coast
is coming up next it's good for you bro again uh this is gonna be my like uh my fourth or my
fifth video uh geography now but that was really awesome i totally enjoyed it man either ways man
yeah like as usual subscribe and uh yeah if you have any suggestions in the comment
section down below i'd really appreciate it but either those guys are out of here peace