There's always beens a profound respect and similarities between the Italians and Brits: both industrious hard working peoples, but who see in each other, a certain quality of the exotic.
Depends.
About this are many clichés.
For exemple Catania,in Sicily is said "the Milano of the south" for the great industriousness of its inhabitants,
while in Ferrara (north Italy) every year is the national rally of laziness.
Depends...is like said that all Scottish are stingy ( and i knew a amiable Scottish that is very generous and spendthrift).
Anyway some of true must be,because this book is a bestseller in Italy:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0hrdCTzYZ2s/T_CtTbHUkpI/AAAAAAAAAj4/bH0_F6JmIss/s1600/HODGKINSON-T_ozio1.gif
Is the translation of this: http://www.biggreenbookshop.com/images/uploads/Books/beidle.jpg
And i confess that the Mr Hodgkinson's work have increased the my already considerable Anglophilia.
Well, Sammy, there are certain national traits, trends in character and cultural manifestations that illicit stereotyping and caricatures. A lot of comedy is based on this.
And Bob Monkhouse.
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^ Of course these days she would never be allowed to specify a female teacher, so that element of the script would have to be removed.
Male or female, they would just have to cope, as best they could, with a bunch of sex-crazed foreigners.
A thousand apologies !
At one time if they wanted an Indian on TV they sent for Saeed Jaffrey. He always played a hard-working, but slightly shifty and untrustworthy sort.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZa0lQHGF0U
There are some great lines in that Minder.
Arthur 'Whats he like?
Terry 'QPR supporter.'
Arthur 'There must be a bit more to it than that'
Terry 'Not really'
Cockney Indian daughter ' He dances just like John Travolta'
Terry ' Yeah. Shame he don't look like him'
Late 70s/ but still a great nostalgia fest. How often do you find a newsagent selling sweets from a jar nowadays ? Whatever became of The Sporting Life? Or the milkman
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