ROME - I was posting about Sweden and Swedish girls, also about Beady Eye's Andy Bell ex wife, the Swedish Idha Ovelius. Here are the origins about the "myth of the Swedish girl" we Italians have, as I was saying. The cult-movie by Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita (1960), Sweet Life, video, with the legendary Marcello Mastroianni (quite nervous character in this film) and the Swedish Anita Ekberg, here called Silvia (in the movie she was an American actress). It's appopriate for this period, as we are almost on holidays: this film was so popular that still after 50 years today we still think about it everytime a foreign girl comes visiting Italy, so you have to treat her as a Princess, etc. In the film there were also the "paparazzi" photographers, for the first time using that word (from the name of a character, Paparazzo).
But that situation is not always positive, in fact as I was saying some months ago, there are many Swedish (and not only Swedish... usually it's Northern Europe, 'cause they're clearly not Latins) who have stereotypes about Italians, and they think we are all "latin lovers" (they probably don't know that it's usually an expression about South Italy), so we are 'dangerous' for the girls, 'cause we want to have sex with them. Well, I think it's not only the Italians, lol. So there are girls scared to come, and don't come, because of stereotypes, commonplaces. I talked to a Polish girl who was saying a series of bad things about Italy, and at the end she admitted she has not even been to Italy in all her life. As I was saying a 1000 times (some countries can't understand it), Italy is very different from zone to zone... it's even more than only one country. People, dialects, etc. can change even from town to town. There's a strong regionalism, as in England. About girls, it's not so common to see men whistling at girls in Milan, while for example in Sicily this MUST be done, LOL. Nothing so bad... There was a Swedish girl called as me :), Anna Nelson (but me not Anna, lol), as Nelson is a Swedish name (they taught me their surnames end in "-son" to mean they are the "son of.." someone), she went on holidays to the South of Italy and remained shocked by the 'experience'. But there's also the contrary: some girls come, BECAUSE they want sex, lol.
The film was a scandal for those times, of course today it's not a scandal, there was just this scene of the Trevi fountain, a party in a villa, etc. nothing really outrageous today.
The film was a scandal for those times, of course today it's not a scandal, there was just this scene of the Trevi fountain, a party in a villa, etc. nothing really outrageous today.
