Sweating is dangerous for you
0 viewsWell, so it would seem here in Italy. I have been having arguments with my Italian other half about the sweatiness of our little one. He, like me, is prone to sweating. And being an energetic 4 year old, he runs around and sweats even more. This is dangerous in Italy, apparently, as it can provoke colds and catarrh. What I don’t really understand is, if sweating is so dangerous, why she insists on dressing our little one in long and heavy trousers. Surely this will cause him to sweat even more and the heavy clothes will retain the sweat and, apparently, lead to health problems. Don’t even start me on about creating through drafts in the house to cool us all down - this is much more dangerous and potentially fatal in Italy as far as I can make out.
These are cultural things and it is not only my other half who worries about the ill effects of sweating and cooling breezes. English people do not seem to get all hot and bothered about getting all hot and sweaty and opening windows to let a breath of fresh air in. On the sweat front, I have been hot and sweaty on plenty of occasions, but don’t seem to have suffered any ill-effects, not as far as I am aware. On the other hand, I think my other half would just about tie our little one down in order to prevent him from doing anything which might provoke sweating. Indeed, I am told not to play with my son during the summer months at times, because I may cause him to sweat. Is this normal? I don’t think so, but then I could be very wrong.
I’m inclined to believe that couples from different cultures all have similar problems with silly little cultural differences, and that these differences do not make mixed cultural relationships particularly easy. Molehills can, indeed, become mountains in terms of mixed cultural relationships.
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The Turks were also terrified of sweating and draughts and one day I finally got ill. I was weak, I confessed to the doctor, that I had sweated and then had sat in a breeze at a nightclub … was that why I was ill? (Believe me, it was a complete moment of weakness brought on by a terrible flu),
That Turkish doctor looked at me as if I were crazy and said, ‘You can’t get sick from draughts and sweat!’ and I was torn between hitting and hugging him. Of course I know you don’t get ill from those things.
The other gem was the Turkish horror over shoes without socks or stockings … apparently this causes cysts on the ovaries. I grew up in a natural environment where bare feet in summer were simply delicious.
New Zealanders don’t get sick from these things either … we spend our whole lives in draughts and etc, without air-conditioning and our are often wooden and therefore draughty.
Then I moved to Belgium, now my Belgian partner sneezes if he sits in a breeze … and he doesn’t just sneeze once and yes, they too seem to believe in the link between sweating and breezes and etc.
Note: To be read in a tone of quiet disbelief and frustration.
So that’s Turks, Belgians and Italians with this draught obsession. Gordon Bennet! For the record I had yet another argument this evening because I had created a ‘corrente’…. I accused my other half of being Medieval. Next time she switches on the air cond I shall scold her by saying that it will create a ‘corrente’. But the air current, draught or whatever will not be considered lethal, because it ia I different type of air movement!!!??
If it wasn’t for the fact that I am all hot and sweaty, and this makes me feel ‘orrible I would put up with this silliness. As it is, I reckon this cultural conflict will continue.
Glad to hear, Di, that those from the land which produced the All Blacks, don’t fear a little moving air.
Count yourself lucky Alex - my wife also does all she can to avoid switching on the aircon. My son suffers the heat as I do…..when I come home from work at times his head feels unfeasibly hot and he looks exceptionally sweaty and bothered.
I think if we were listing the top ten cultural differences that get my goat, the whole drafts issue would definitely be in the top three!
Eddie,
Your wife must be Italian! I am a little curious to know what other cultural differences get on your goat.
Generally, from my experience, these here ‘issues’ are quite minor, but irritating, things.
As an aside, an Italian woman once told me to watch out for Italian women, because they are, not all, but plenty, she said,’rompe palle’. Alas, I have discovered that my other half, bless here little heart, is quite well versed in this romping of palles…. Although, I do quite often deserve to have my palles romped, I have to admit.
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