#i'm pretty sure even northern italians will say southern italians are lazy and useless

[mishkakagehishka]

no fr i worry abt globalization too. like i 100% actually admire and respect the cultures who value taking it easy and relaxing a little more. the US is basically my own personal hell ^^; i have a very low desire to work and just enjoy doing what i love and spending time with people i love, not slaving away to some corporate overlord that doesn't care about my life. i'd love to skip and get coffee with friends, or relax a little more rather than worrying about grades and constantly go-go-going all the time. but alas.

that's just my take, though ^^; (plus i just hate how everything gets made for americans... even being one i always feel kinda sad when cultures adapt to the us, rather than the us adapting to others... there's so much to be learned from other cultures! but you lose so much when everyone starts catering to the americans...)

Yeah, there's good things to take from America (like, okay okay, i shit on the US a lot, but like looking at the past and how it really was seen as a place of opportunity because you could start from zero and still make it - it's no longer a thing, but when it was it was inspiring, or i think we specifically mentioned "fighting for your rights" and "activism" as "good sides of westernisation" while studying it in high school), but the protestant work ethic.... is not it.

And maybe my own people take it too far in the other direction, i know we're stereotyped as excruciatingly lazy even in the north of the same country, but i just believe there's no reason to... put your entire soul into your career. Sure, if your work brings you joy you can allocate your hobby-time to your job-time, but... friends, family, entertainment, art are all things that need their own time. Imo "job" should be pretty low on your priorities (again, unless it brings you joy on par with a hobby. Like, if i manage to find work as a translator, i'll treat that job like my world, but that's bc it'd be on par with a hobby). I think we also use "work to live, don't live to work" to explain it. But we live in such a world :( it's hard, you need money to live, but you have to work so much now that you don't have the time to live anymore.

#i love that we're always waxing poetic about random subjects and philosophising lmao #but right stereotypes. northern europeans and western europeans see southern europeans as lazy #like really lazy. it's a Thing. spend 10min in the /europe sub and you'll see it #spend 10 minutes in the /croatia sub and you'll see two threads talking about how lazy dalmatians are #''the souther you go the lazier the people'' #i'm pretty sure even northern italians will say southern italians are lazy and useless #but the thing is that the souther you go the hotter it gets #and the hotter it gets... the less sense it makes to work all day #in the north you work in the day and sleep in the night #in the south you can't do that without getting heatstroke. you work before and after sunrise and you sleep at night but also during the day #hence the birth of the siesta (or fjaka as we call it in my dialect) #it started as just our programming but. it bled into our culture #we can survive without having to work 24/7 #look at how hot it is - you can't do anything even if you wanted to #so why not take a break? why not sit down and just talk with your friends? why not just enjoy life for a minute? #and i like that and i don't wanna see that part of our culture destroyed #sure i don't help the stereotypes - i got the weirdest looks when i said i treat my absences like vacation time #(bc it's not like if i'm not absent i get 6 allowed absences next term - it's always 3 so i might as well use them) #but like. it's important!!!!! if i do nothing but work i'll go insane!!!!!!!! #and frankly i think we need to start pulling ''it's actually xenophobic to make me work all day'' at this point #you need to do it to. say your Dalmatian friend adopted you into the culture. it is now your Korka-given right to take a break from 3-5pm #preferably used to nap but you can also just hang out #all this to say there was a graffiti here that said ''THIS IS NOT AMERICA'' and i think of it everytime people try to adopt the US work #ethics like. we don't need that!!! this is not america!!!!!!! don't do that!!!!!!!!!!