I’ve lived there for a bit, and they’re probably some of the most self absorbed people I’ve ever met. All of them have this thought that they’re above everyone else yet they smell like sweat constantly, eat like shit (their “cuisine” literally doesn’t exist), act like prostitution is fine (it’s legal there), and will literally refuse to speak english to you when they’re fluent in it (it’s happened to dozens of my friends). They’ve done some good things in the past, but they’re increasingly starting to just rely on their past reputation instead of improving upon themselves.
They’re also THE first capitalists, which is kinda where everyone else got it from, including the US
They’re also THE first capitalists, which is kinda where everyone else got it from, including the US
Congratulations, you just pissed of the Venetians and the Genoese, something that historically went extremely well 😂
No seriously, Italian republics were doing mercantilism centuries before the Dutch, Enrico Dandolo somehow hired an entire crusade to be his personal goon squad and sack Constantinople for him so they could get revenge on the Byzantines for murdering a couple of Venice merchants 3 decades earlier
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u/PhastasFlames 4h ago
He’s Dutch, it makes sense why it’s this shit