"Viva the Asians!!"

...As Giuliano's friend Danielo yelled out one day during my visit to Costa Rica - ha! Sometime during the week before Giuliano met me last year, he and Danielo were talking about women, different kinds of women, and they commented that Asian women seemed sweet, more family-oriented and warm, although neither of them ever dated an Asian woman before, only observed them from a distance as Asian women seemed scared of Italians both in Italy and Costa Rica. And then as Giuliano says, boop! I came along! - with a big smile, hee hee.

Now after meeting me, his Italian friends and I have tried to converse, gotten to know each other over the two weeks I was there earlier this month, and now they all say, "Viva the Asians!" along with Danielo and of course, Giuliano. So, one day, while walking around town and noticing an Asian male tourist, I whispered to Giuliano, "Viva the Asians!" and he said, "No!", jokingly, "Only the women." Ha! My funny Italian-now Costa Rican man!