Are you proud of the character of your country?

[neko-kakashi.livejournal.com]

Please, write what kind of nationality you are, and why you are proud of him/her. I am curious about your opinion. :)

I am Hungarian and really proud of Hungary's character. She was created very well. And because she was the very first female character in the Hetalia. And when she was little she thought she was a boy and really used to act like a boy! xD And a what kind of superb fighter proved to be in the battle against the Prussians.
It is I like in her as she used to take care of the little Italians. It is interesting for me she is yaoi fan. For a long time I did not know about there were so many Hungarians who like boy-boy things; only me. :D

Comments

[monkeychin.livejournal.com]

Born and rised in Italy, as what I think of them, well I don't have a clear idea because they're so different and I don't know well the northern part to judge it.
I love my country, but I can't say the same for its rapresentations, like my fellow compatriots said, the way Himaruya stereotyped them lacked of information about the country itself, but I can't also criticize Himaruya since he just used information he found or heard about our country and made two guys which should portray the nortern and the southern part of a country which is much more complicated than what it shows.

Italy has always been a divided country, and through the years this heterogeneity deacresed, but didn't completely disappear.

Truth to be told, I don't really like them, their characterization is kind of messed and like I said it'd be really hard to rapresent Italy whit just one or two characters because it's just impossible to portray a so fragmented land, separated for years through history. Though I'm really fond of them as well, because I can't just turn my back at supposedly human rapresentations of my country.

Anyway I quote as much as the other Italians said. Just I'd like to add we're talking about stereotyped rapresentation of countries and that most of them are just rumors "you can't judge a book from its cover", right? I think the only way to really potray a country's live it. You understand really what it's like to be an "Italian" or "American" and so on only if you live like one, and I hope people wouldn't think less of any country because thay make it appear as a place full of criminals or fat people etc.