A few weeks ago we were embroiled in an entertaining debate about the meaning of the word “Latino”. We never denied that people from Latin America are tied in origin to the people of “Latin” Europe — the mediterranean countries whose influence is most certainly evident in some Latin American customs and cultural idiosyncrasies.

So what does it mean when Spaniards and Italians are ranked as the laziest in the world (okay, in Europe) with regard to housework?

Italian men spend the least number of hours on housework (only 1.35 hours). But not for this reason are Italian households more messy; their female partnersare the Europeans that spend the most hours on housework, up to 5.20 hours.

Spaniards are also unenthusiastic about the dusting, and spend only two minutes more than Italians on housework. Spanish women spend 4.39 hours.

This very interesting study conducted by EuroStat also points to other trends:

Not only do women dedicate more time to domestic work (in Spain, 3 1/2 hours more); if you add the number or hours women spend on studying and their jobs, it’s evident that European women work more than men.

The only European country where men and women work almost exactly the same number of hours both in and out of the home is — surprise — Sweden.

Have Latinos inherited the machismo and the love of sloth? Some say Latinos have inherited all kinds of things, many of them bad. Like a Mexican friend’s dad told him when he saw drunk people vomiting in the streets of Pamplona, Spain, “Se nota de donde venimos”.

What do you think?

Via / 20Minutos