Can Men and Women Be Friends? Here's How My Italian Colleagues Responded

10/13/2017

Haven't you always wondered if different cultures answer questions like this well...differently? Recently, I had the chance (using speaking practice as an excuse) to survey my Italian colleagues and ask them if, in their opinion, men and women could be friends. Here's the results of that survey which involved almost 40 adults between the ages of 25-60. I'm actually just guessing their ages, but more or less. Are you surprised or not at all? Do you these results could be considered a microcosm? What I found most interesting is that quite a higher percentage of Italian men don't think that men and women can be friends and their reasoning was the obvious one. They all tended to side with Harry in that famous dispute with Sally. If you're unsure what I'm talking about here we should probably stop being friends. Just kidding, I love you all. Happy Friday!

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Adi On.

10/14/2017 02:30:43 am

Wow! Jasmine your survey for me definitely reveals what I've been trying to prove through anecdotes to my friends. This is one of the biggest things I found shocking when I lived in Italy. It was practically impossible to make friends with men. They either always thought I was interested, then got angry for me supposedly leading them on by being friendly, or they saw me as a threat. It's sad because I was so used to having platonic guy friendships in Canada...

Jasmine

10/14/2017 10:27:03 am

It's true!!!! I definitely believed in friendship but that was when I was in Canada, if you ask me the same question now I would say no. Ahaha. Which means that Italian men are dangerous haha, they are so much more innately naturally flirty that it's hard to be friends even if you'd like to be...although of course there are exceptions and such and depends on the person but in general I think my little survey says a lot.

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