ITAL 20X Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Square Foot, Disorderly House, Culture Of The Southern United States
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Condominium: 85-90% italians live in condos; live together & share space, like to own houses. Italian houses 20243$ so parents help kids buy houses bc priority: piazza: square/plaza; very important place for italians bc historical town center. Kitchen: shorter amount of time spent in kitchen. Italians women didn"t have jobs so spent more time in house but now they do so might grab a meal & go. Italian families used to have lunch & dinner together eat with utensils, not in front of tv (technology distracting), talk/deep connection: dinner is an important meal. Italian women more independent from mothers than boys (mama boy) Italian society very patriarchal so boys are little princes in family changing family structure but symbiotic relationship between mom & son. Bedroom: houses are small like apartments at 1000 sq ft, bedroom is private & very neat unlike the rest of the disorderly house. Italians like to keep their stuff & ends up in bedroom.
