Local values and attitudes

Now I have been here for 1 month and 3 weeks, and after this time I would like to talk about the local values and attitudes of Iesi's inhabitants.

We can start with the facilities that the society provides for the integration of the newcomers, this is thanks to their emotional expressiveness that is always accompanied by a characteristic lively and energetic gestural communication, it is through this characteristic and warm way of communicating that great efforts are made to make the newcomer feel part of the tradition and culture (be it gastronomic, customs or historical of the country, and in my case of the region).

Within the Italian society we also find a strong feeling of family unity, this may be due to the fact that religion plays a very important role in the society, which ends up conditioning most of its values; a very remarkable thing is the involvement of young people in the ecclesiastical and spiritual part of themselves through the catholic church, most young people are happy to follow the Christian religion and its values so they participate actively, in fact, in Italy there is the so-called servizio civile which is basically a voluntary service in the community that consists of a great variety of ways to help from civil protection to the preservation and promotion of cultural values and historical heritage (among many other things).

In short, this society and the way it behaves is a great opportunity to reflect on how different perspectives and values can enrich one's life experience, in my case it has been thanks to the interaction between my home culture and the culture here, that I have been able to gain a much deeper understanding of the complexity that defines the identity of Italian culture, an understanding that has also helped me learn to open up to new cultures and consequently become richer (metaphorically speaking).

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