>>7522253We're the gayest as a self-defense mechanism, anon. When people are faggots to us Italians, we act even more gay to them to freak them out and get them to go away.
So imagine a Chinese tourist showing up and being a typical faggot to a street vendor in Rome, and their response, as is tradition, is to kiss them on the lips to shut them up.
Sadly, it didn't work out as well as usual, but hey, it DID get the tourists away for at least a full year, so maybe it was a net positive?