Question by jedinwa: Why are Americans so obsessed with all things Tuscan?
I’ve noticed that over the last few years Americans have developed an obsession with Tuscan (or Tuscan “style”) food, art, etc., etc, and I’ll bet most of these same people couldn’t even identify the Tuscan region on a map of Italy. What the heck?
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Answer by Amethyst
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I’m an American but I never here anything about “Tuscan style” things.
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Are you American? Im guessing you’re not because most americans could care less about anything Tuscan. It is just a new gimmick that restaurant owners and architects and designers use. It is just a passing trend, but there is no discussion of “all things Tuscan” in American culture. No one cares.
I had a professor who was from Tuscany and he was about the hottest thing I’ve ever seen.
And, yes, I do know where Tuscany is.
I wouldn’t say I’m obsessed with it, but it’s certainly on my radar.
Some people [not just Americans} are lemmings, they have to glom onto whatever they see in mass media. In this case, they had seen the movie "Under the Tuscan Sun".with Diane Lane. Now people are buying up every villa in Tuscany and Umbria, and other places. [actually this has been happening for a long time].
Pardon for my going off subject, but the same situation happened when people saw the movie “A River Runs Through It” with Robert Redford and Brad Pitt. Everyone then decided they needed to become fly fisher[wo]men. This nearly ruined the sport [[except those folks who sell equipment, etc...they made a killing.]…yuppies tried to buy up all the land with good trout streams…places local fisher[wo]men have been going for generations…now only their friends could fish there.
Anyway, to sum up, it IS really annoying when people latch onto something they wouldn’t have known about unless they saw it on TV or in a movie