Strolling through the beautiful meadows of Val Badia one of the five
Ladin-speaking Dolomite valleys in South Tyrol, I wish you good viewing. Hello friends welcome in a new video
today we are in Val Badia this time we are in the company of Osvaldo, a local shepherd:
hello Osvaldo welcome. Hello. How long have you been a shepherd? 35 years more or less, it is three years since
I quit, I let the young people do something. Absolutely, that's right. Three generations:
my dad, me and now my son too, he is 20 years old but he has to start anyway, he was born in the mountains.
Today we are here to reply to your comments we received on the latest Ladin video
are you ready Osvaldo? There are positive comments but not only there are also some critical comments,
okay? That's okay, it is also fair. Absolutely. So let's see what they say about the Ladins:
very good Ladins who keep their language and their traditions I admire very much. Well,
that's true; if we do not keep the traditions we are here doing what as Ladins. That's right,
you have a beautiful culture, you care a lot about your culture. Yes, enough,
enough. Long live the clean Ladins, orderly serious people, maybe the Italians were
like them. But there are good and bad people everywhere and not only the Ladins.
And you are not only serious people, you also like to laugh joke. No, just cry.
However, I don't know if you noticed it they say: "maybe the Italians were like them" meaning that you
are not Italian, what do you think? We are Ladins but we still live in Italy, then everyone can
think as they want ... it's always the hothead that feels German but not for me. Do you feel
Italian? Ladin? Ladino but we are in Italy, it is useless we are doing what anyone who wants to go
to Austria goes well but then afterwards let's see if they give him the pension. In fact, here they also say:
"South Tyrol is not Italy". Why not? Where are the borders? We have been in Italy for several years
and I think we are not bad either; I spoke to an Austrian and he said: "stay in
Italy you are better off" and this is a great friend when one of them tells you the truth it means
that it is true. Here they say: "if you don't feel Italian, go back to Austria". Grab
your rags and go, there is one less. But would you never go anywhere else
but here? I do not think. Where is better than here tell me Osvaldo, where is
better than here ... you were born in a paradise. I don't know, I don't know ... I also like
to go to the beach for a couple of days but a couple of days then up faster than going down. Then
you miss home. Of course, I miss animals, mountains and friends. So: "they are Italians,
all these differences are absurd" so I think you mean between Italians and Ladins;
are there so many differences? Well, I don't think ... I don't think there are so many differences clearly there are
other cultures but otherwise no differences. Of course, as like every region there are different cultures.
It's clear. "Of course, they speak Ladin and treat Italians as second-class customers". It is not true,
of course there is always the exception but if not we treat Italian and German with the same quality
we do not do first or second category. "I have always thought that the inhabitants of South Tyrol were
closed and inhospitable I had to change my mind three years ago I found them very welcoming the
cleanliness that is found there is hardly found in other regions of Italy they live in a paradise".
You thought that the Ladins were stubborn ... that's not true, there is always that but most of them are
n't. Absolutely, yes yes I confirm it, you are a beautiful people; among other things, the thing I admire
so much about you is that from birth you speak three languages ​​plus English and more dialects. Ladino,
Italian, German ... but when I got out of school, German I understood so much that if someone
close to me was selling me for German I didn't understand anything then the experience was made after working
on the plants in short with the people but otherwise no Italian yes. Because in any case, German
is used a lot in the world of work. Those years there, after the 73 'I was on the lifts there were almost all
Germans so you had to learn it and then you learned Italian at school it was easier. Here they say:
"they are Italian because they live within the Italian borders but culturally they are not but
there is nothing strange I think". No, because here our culture is neither German nor Italian,
our area is a little different and already if you go to Val Pusteria they already have other traditions, another
culture every country has its own cultures. "I had read that the Ladin is like his wool jacket is a
little rough but it warms" the typical Ladin dress ... yes, this is made of wool. You are a little
closed in the beginning but when you open up you are fantastic people. Eh if you say so! I
fell in love with this place can you see? Ah not me? Also of you Osvaldo! Well we conclude with
this: "for heaven's sake here they are very nice but then when you go there if you talk to them in Italian
they don't even answer" that's not true, that's not true because especially now there are much more
Italians than Germans if you took as I said before after in the seventies there were only Germans
I took a sled ride with customers years ago they said they always went to Val
Gardena they were a table of Italians and the rest all Germans said we were in a corner we
arrived in Val Badia laughed with a taste we were all Italians and four Germans in a corner but
he said it with his own taste. Osvaldo thank you very much for replying to these comments
it was a pleasure. So bad ... No, you answered perfectly! I hope you enjoyed the video guys,
what do you want to say to all the people who are watching us ... to come and
visit us why? Come and visit us because it is beautiful here and we are very unpleasant!