Answer: People wrongly, often parallelize Southern Italians with Greeks due to the history involved (Magna Grecia etc…). In reality though, Southern Italians might be ethnically of Greek decent to a great extend, with common values and ethics on one hand, but on the other, their rural and economically degraded lives (for a long time), had made their lifestyle as well as their everyday attitudes and behavior, quite different than those of the average Greek or central or northern Italians. Now I don’t mean that Greek and Northern Italians are the same. Greece is a much smaller country and for this, variations in income, either between north and south or between rural and urban populations, are much smaller or insignificant. There are also other reasons of course like the fact that practically 70% of Greeks live in 3 big cities.
So, if I had to point out the people I consider closest culturally to the Greeks, these would be central Italians or to be more exact, from Napoli up to Tuscany. The majority of Greeks share with central Italians, almost identical cultural characteristics and social values, ethics and attitudes. Similar attitudes in civil manners, in political preferences and manners, in education, in marrying age, in children per household, in entertainment, in dealing with the opposite sex and in so many other social grounds.
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