Are you asking about the Italian people from Italy, or Italian American people, like myself...?

There has been so much Italian immigration into the United States that I probably think first of Italian-Americans. Pizza. Spaghetti. Risotto. Italian restaurants. Boston's North End. Italian expressions that have become American slang, like "Capiche?" I think of: Italian opera, Verdi and Puccini. Caruso. Pavarotti. Placido Domingo. Italian movies, particularly of the 1970s or so. Federico Fellini. Michelangelo Antonioni. Actresses; Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida. Italian artists: Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli. Italian scientists: Galileo, Alessandro Volta, Enrico Fermi. The ancient Romans.

I don't have italians friends but the brazilians say which they are very kind people. And...Of course the food are delicious!

I have got some Italian friends, and they are nice.