Italian-Americans try their best to hold traditions from the motherland

[@bardshitler3328]

He’s the most American person I’ve ever seen

[@ppjosdet1292]

Yes with that AMERICAN accent 😄

[@bardshitler3328]

@@koschmx how dare you that’s a racism

[@jlhabitan50]

@@ppjosdet1292 And if he's from New York City, it's probably heavily influenced by regional accents brought by early Italian immigrants.

[@KAMOYA17]

What until you see a Sioux or a Cherokee or a Chacatow.

[@Italian_Christian]

As a Calabrese, i can tell alot of us immigrated in America. I also have 2 uncles there

[@silasrodriguesgoncalvesjun5191]

An american, but he's proud of his italian origin. Italians should feel glad with that

[@wisteria3032]

why?

[@azmaweppa]

He tells us we don't preserve our traditions as they do (how ironic), why should we respect him? He has no idea what Italy really is.

[@larrygerry985]

Maybe live in Italy. You will see your are not Italian but a stereotype.

[@silasrodriguesgoncalvesjun5191]

He's not saying he's a real italian. He's just saying that he's proud of his Family origin

[@marcellomancini6646]

bruh do you understand that his parents are Italians from the south? he is not making this up

[@S4v3_w3st]

Yea but y’all would call a black or Arab Italian lol

[@barte4215]

@@marcellomancini6646 that doesn't make him Italian lol

[@barte4215]

@@S4v3_w3st if he lives in Italy why not? racist much?

[@alisonevans3059]

These people did not face racism and segregation only to be told there not italians. There are italians in Germany. There are italians in Britain There are italians in France There are italians in Canada There italians in Brazil There italians in Ireland There are italians in Mexico There are italians in Australia And there are italians in america all with unique and beautiful cultures that are 100% italian create by italian people whose ancesters are from italy also just because you live in Italy doesn't make you ethnically italian. My friend from Venice Italy turned out to be French and german, Portuguese, Ukrainian, turkish and greek. And 16%italian. Sooo 🤷 There are more italians outside of Italy love them or hate them there italians. Fun fact turkish kebabs actually come from a turkish guy who lived OUTSIDE OF TURKEY 🇹🇷 😮😮😮oooOOOOOoooo A turkish person from germany to be exact And the kebab is one of turkey's national food.

[@FantasyandScienceFiction]

"There are Italians in Mexico", ahahah! There are more Italians outside of Italy than in Italy? It's false. Prove that.

[@Alex-dr6or]

I was born and raised in Italy. I think the whole "keeping the tradition alive" doesn't necessarily mean something historical or cultural. What most italian-americans see as tradition is none other than old fashion ways and out of touch customs and mannerisms that Italy simply outgrew over the years. What is unaltered in our tradition usually involves festivals and celebrations, national holidays, our traditional recipes and food festivals, opera, palio di siena, carnevale (venezia/viareggio), la befana, republic day (usually people do a bunch of things on this day and its rooted in our culture). This doesn't include all the small local traditions that differ from region to region, town to town. The list is way too long. When I meet italian-americans they often know very little of all these things, all they seem to refer as tradition is mannerisms and some tales from the old times that got passed down to the next generation. When I visited Little Italy it was such a surreal experience to me. Not necessarily in a bad way, I think it holds its own charm but at the same time I felt like I was inside the set of a movie. It felt like a parody of the old time (when you watch some old footage from the 40/50/60s). Too much like a stereotype and not exactly an accurate representation of my culture, even though it was nice to see and I actually suggest anyone, especially Italian tourist to visit little italy at least once.

[@Quitumbe954]

Y'all whine too much being Italian is about your genetics period an Italian is an Italian no matter where they were born on the planet, and the world loves Italians for their looks the culture is secondary and all that really matters in the culture is the food which Italians in the diaspora do just as good/better than Italians in Italy

[@sebastians1770]

@@Quitumbe954 Proper bullshit, genetics got nothing to do with it because all are mixed especially in Sicily where most of the "Italian Americans" have ancestry from, almost all people there has mixed genetics as Sicily has been occupied by so many people, so if you´re not American and "Italian" you might just as well say you´re Turkish or Greek because your genetics might say that more than genetics related to the mainland italians and romans, so where do you draw the line of the "genetics" you talk about? Your culture, native language, native dialect, and upbringing is just as much part of who you are, so I´m sorry if you´re crying about it, but you´re Americans with Italian relatives way back, not italians.

[@Alex-dr6or]

@@Quitumbe954 no, being Italian isn't about genetics and look. I had friends growing up whose parents were immigrants, they were either black or Asian but they grew up just like the rest of us, despite their skin color, they're Italian.

[@bryanb.386]

When Americans say diversity is good, then attempt to explain it, they might say one or two vague things then they throw in food. Which is all fine and good, but I don't think really adds up to being "diverse" what ever the hell that may mean. My dad was from Italy (same with all of his relatives who were in the U.S.) and my mother is 2nd generation Italian-American. I was able to see how people who immigrated here were different from those born here, as well as how those who immigrated assimilated, shedding more and more of their old skin over time, but holding on to what matter most to them of home, which was highly individual and personal. It isn't so much the "old culture and ways," it is the new culture and ways that came from it. I traveled to Italy once. Although how much I noticed in similarities in mannerisms varied by region, there was at least some type of similarity (less in cities, more so in locales), yet we both could tell were were different people; very distant cousins at best. I can't tell from you post if you lived here, or just visited, but I will continue. What seems to be the strongest link between Italian-Americans and Italians is Catholicism, yet from what I saw that is varied a great deal as well. What you see from the guy here are regional mannerisms, accent and dialect (although not as varied as dialects are in many countries) related to the northeast, where massive amounts of Italians and Catholics in general immigrated. People will say he has a New York accent, or that "he's Italian," and in this case he is Italian-American, at least. Yet I know many people from this area who don't have a drop of Italian blood in them, but have held onto their regionalism and no one would be able to tell the difference between them and this guy in terms of their heritage/where they are from.

[@Quitumbe954]

@@Alex-dr6or nope being Italian is about your ancient genetics that connect you to the peninsula/surrounding islands of Italy sorry

[@alessandrostefani4148]

Nobody gives a f**k about italian/americans in Italy. Am i wrong?No,because i’m an italian living in Italy.

[@nenaj1]

We don’t care. Good for u

[@CiceroSapiens]

Well, you're not wrong, it's more that you are being so ambiguous, I have no idea what you're saying. Like are people ambivalanent or against them? Also like as an Italian American I hardly expect to be welcomed with open arms like family. 😂 like i would be a tourist. What is your point?

[@laysmaxx5789]

​@@CiceroSapiensPeople in Italy don't hate "Italian Americans", we just get annoyed at certain Italian Americans who come here and claim that they're Italian. Like no, for us you are still just American and the traditions between Italians and Italian Americans are vastly different.

[@msch7620]

@@laysmaxx5789 They have kept some old traditions that are from some specific regions/area and mixed it with some American elements or made up their own. Keep in mind that people who went there didn’t have the Internet and didn’t have cheap flights to be able to go back either. So the country has evolved and taken a different direction. A lot has also be homogenized along with the construction of the European Union and regional pagan and Catholic traditions are simply not as big anymore. Not a lot of people in France celebrate Mardi Gras anymore and rare are the city who still have parades for it but Mardi Gras is still a French tradition.

[@masterjunky863]

​@CiceroSapiens Italians think Italian-Amricans are just Americans and most of us don't even know you feel Italian. We love many Italian-Americans people like celebrities, actors and directors and we are happy they have Italian origins but don't even imagine they think they are part of our people.

[@AndreaXV]

You aren't italian, just stop forcing it. There's nothing wrong in being just American.

[@AndreaXV]

@@koschmx He said they hold traditions but he doesn't even speak italian. I find it kinda hypocrite, if you didn't grow up in italy you aren't italian, stop trying to force it.

[@Italian_Christian]

Why not, if his entire family has italian blood then he is italian just that he is born in american.

[@AndreaXV]

@@Italian_Christian it doesn't work like that, heritage is pretty much pointless, he doesn't speak italian, he doesn't have italian culture, he has not lived the same life that we live in Italy. His traditions are old fashioned ways that we abandoned long ago.

[@jlhabitan50]

@@AndreaXV he doesn't have to speak fluent standard Italian to be Italian if he continues the traditions passed to him by generations of his family. That's how diaspora communities are when trying to keep what they have alive while settling and establishing a new life elsewhere. Likewise for Italian that have made a home for themselves in places like Argentina and in turn gave us Lionel Messi and Pope Francis.

[@AndreaXV]

@@jlhabitan50 Leo Messi isn't italian, Pope Francis isn't italian, they are Argentinian, this guy isn't italian, he's American it's not that hard to understand, how can you keep alive tradition when the tradition you keep alive isn't even alive in the country you say you are from, how can you speak the language when the language you speak is the butchered version of a dialect that maybe 1/20 of italians speak. I don't want anyone to feel less important or inferior, just saying that it's perfectly fine to be just American.

[@marcomarco6430]

As born and bred in Italy...I do not give a s4it about american italian. Nothing to do with annoying and pointless stereotypes. We movies from there.

[@luigicimorelli2277]

As an Italian, when I hear this man speak the only thing that comes to my mind is that he is the most american person I've ever seen. 😂

[@masterjunky863]

"Paesano" is used only in the south. You can't imagine how us north Italians feel distant the typical American idea of Italy, you can't. It's like saying to an Alaskan "oh, you are American? Cowboys, really hot climate and grand canyon, I love your country!".

[@ginger942]

😂😂😂😂 no paesano è una parola italiana. Informati ahhaa

[@masterjunky863]

@@ginger942 Nessuno nel nord direbbe "ciao paesano"

[@masterjunky863]

@@ginger942 Esiste come parola ma non si usa per chiamare gli altri, questo intendevo

[@Letyparatore]

che poi, se vogliamo mettere i puntini sulle i, paesano si usa si al sud per dire siamo della stessa regione, ma in italiano in generale è per dire persona che abita nel tuo stesso paesino. Come concittadino, perché si abita nella stessa città. In teoria dovrebbero dire connazionali, ma nemmeno perché non sono di nazionalità italiana hahaha. Quindi meglio che fanno come Bonolis, gridando "ITALIANI" come a Ciao Darwin. Mi sa che è meglio.

[@masterjunky863]

@@Letyparatore In teoria è così, ma in pratica nessuno al nord direbbe "ciao paesano", o almeno io non l'ho mai sentito dire in vita mia, detto così mi sa proprio di meridionale.

[@bluesoul7163]

As an Italian I truly don’t care…. If you are proud of you Italian ancestry and living in USA, it’s not up to me to decide how Italian you are…. Obviously the idea of Americans of Italians is completely a bs and just a big stereotype and you guys embrace this thing and acting that way even more…. But again the important thing is being happy of you origin for me

[@fugazzetaymantecol8964]

An Argentinean here: I have a question for the Italians, I am a descendant of Italians (Nono and Nonas) why do you have a grudge against the Yankees who say they are descendants of Italians? I ask because I have never seen that attitude from you towards the Italian descendants in Argentina and to me it's funny 😂😂😂

[@fugazzetaymantecol8964]

@@koschmx Italian-American that doesn't exist.

[@estebangarcia747]

​@@fugazzetaymantecol8964la misma pregunta hago yo 😂 nose porque les tienen rencor a los italo-americanos los italianos. los comentarios en un video de un señor de argentina los italianos les decian que somos las mismas personas solo que en otro continente 😂 Nose porque tanto rechazo de parte de los italianos hacia los yankees de Descendencia italiana

[@vinnolano]

The friends I had from Argentina..spoke two languages, Italian and Spanish, second they are the largest Italian population outside of Italy and third they weren't caffoni like the ones here

[@vinnolano]

First the Italian Argentinians I knew weren't caffoni like the ones here, second they spoke the mother tongue Italian plus Spanish, Third they were the largest or second largest population outside of Italy and fourth the Italian media companies are transmitting TG1, RAI programming which people watch. This guy knows none of it

[@PaulyWally30]

I think it's the stereotypes Italian americans give off that create a negative image of Italians. Italian americans perhaps have done more harm to the Italian image and culture than any other group of Italian immigrants in different countries. They are disconnected from their Latin roots-Latin Europe, which is very much alive in Latin America, so they embrace the descendants of Italian immigrants in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, and so on. It's the common cultural bond between Italy and Spain and, by extension, the connection with Latin America through Spain. Just my theory.

[@Luke8-17]

Growing up in Brooklyn having an immigrate family, living in a neighborhood with half the population of Italian immigrants, working with a crew of mostly men who only spoke Italian, dating girls who’s families spoke no English. Most of my family & friends who were born in America first language was Italian. It’s something to be proud of being American.

[@NNNNN34955]

You spit some bullshit

[@LEGIOXIIIG]

Per favore utilizare "Dulolingo" e etudiare la lingua Italiana. Senza escusati in 2023. Honore tuo familia e tuo "paisani" Italiani.

[@yusefnegao]

He speaks Italian

[@MAACH02]

Dont worry guys! I was born and raised in italy and to me you are as italian as me. Minor differences cant matter, if you are proud of being italian then you are italian.

[@siennad587]

Wow a born and bred Italian in this comment section who isn’t a gatekeeper. Thanks! I don’t know why ppl loving their ethnicity is so triggering to some.

[@SirVonMakak]

What if you're proud but completely ignorant and disconected

[@bardshitler3328]

@@siennad587Americans are culture vultures simple if there not Italian there Irish 🙄

[@TargatiNa]

No they are not

[@blackkohi]

Di italiano non hanno quasi mai niente. Parlano male o per niente la lingua. Usano un paese in cui non sono né nati né cresciuti come medaglia da sfoggiare in ogni occasione, tipico comportamento americano. Rompono le scatole a tanti americani tranquillissimi per tradizioni che loro stessi non conoscono, rendendole una macchietta se non vere e proprie invenzioni. In poche parole, insopportabili.

[@bluesman1947]

Face it. You're American of southern Italian descent. That's about it.

[@C_A1982_2]

Sono italiano nato in Italia .. non capisco perché i miei compaesani odiano così tanto gli Italo americani e fanno commenti sgradevoli su internet.. a me stanno simpaticissimi gli Italo americani .. un abbraccio forte a tutti voi compaesani di oltre oceano! ❤💪

[@aldeonuwu2634]

Informati meglio e capirai

[@wisteria3032]

non sono antipatici, anzi sono simpaticissimi. Solo che ritengono di essere Italiani e che la lingua che parlano e le tradizioni che seguono siano italiane solo perché il loro bisnonno veniva da qui. Non è una cosa tipica Italo-Americana, è una cosa tipica Americana. Chiedi e sono "Irlandesi" "Tedeschi" "Olandesi"... perché qualche lontano parente veniva da lì. Ma allo stesso tempo l'America è tutto ed è l'unica cosa degna di nota in tutto il mondo. Non è una questione di affetto o di amministrazione per un luogo. È come la differenza tra me che dico "adoro il Giappone e perciò ne studio la lingua e la cultura e mi interesso e certo se andassi lì si vedrebbe che non ci ho mai vissuto ma mi impegno" e me che dico "Io sono praticamente inglese perché mio papà ha studiato in Inghilterra e il marito della sorella di mio nonno è inglese. E comunque io prendo il tè delle 6 perciò non venire a dirmi che non conosco la cultura locale". E sanno già tutto, non è che puoi provare a insegnargli qualcosa, non si interessano. E va benissimo. Ma che sia chiaro che quella che loro difendono è una cultura Italo-Americana e non una cultura Italiana. E la lingua che parlano è un mix di dialetti che al giorno d'oggi esiste solo in America e il 99% delle parole che dicono non sono italiane. Il problema non sono gli Italo-Americani in sé, il problema è che si ritengono Italiani e non ascoltano ragioni.

[@alessandrogalli1609]

Funny, he changes his accent going from Naples to Calabria, it's an incredible hybrid 😂

[@alisonevans3059]

Im ethnically turkish and my parents are turkish but i was born in Cardiff wales im still turkish/Kurdish/indian/indo persian. But im from wales but im asian.

[@simonepiscedda2119]

I confirm that Italian Americans have maintained traditions that have unfortunately been lost here

[@robertm.serrato258]

Forza Italia! Forza Sicilia 💪🏻🇮🇹❤️🇮🇲

[@BritanniaItalia]

that’s the flag of the isle of man

[@robertm.serrato258]

@@BritanniaItalia Yea, They don’t have the Sicilian Flag on KZbin but it’s the closest thing to the Trinacria of Sicily.

[@BritanniaItalia]

@@robertm.serrato258 ok

[@elioamedeo]

I think he's very sweet. I always dismiss Italian Americans, he's right. He seems to be genuinely attached to the culture of his ancestral home. Yes it's true that Italian Americans do things differently, but honestly... noi Italiani siamo tutti diversi. Non posso neanche dire che cambiamo tradizioni da regione a regione, perché onestamente le cambiamo di città in città. A me fa molta tenerezza questo tizio. Per me può definirsi come vuole, basta che non dice "Gabagool" 😂 L'ironia comunque è che il suo grande amore per l'Italia lo rende sicuramente meno Italiano rispetto a quelli "veri" che magari sono piú interessati a Harry Potter 😆

[@CigarettesAS]

non ho capito il collegamento tra italianità e harry potter

[@silasrodriguesgoncalvesjun5191]

Italy is a great and lovely country. Anyone of italian origin should be proud of that. I am a brazilian descendent of italians, and I'm proud of it

[@joemama5055]

The guys from jojo part 5 seems to be more italians than them

[@ppjosdet1292]

How about he holds a bit of Italian accent too so we can trust him a bit more 😆 😂

[@Sheep-Shagger]

Nah he was doin' good he just overexxagereted the accent when talkin' bout where they parents from

[@nugolderp4115]

​@@Sheep-Shaggernahh, that's super Mario accent

[@JesusMySavior78]

If you live in New York you are now classified as Italian American

[@aryatalebniahir3843]

Why do you insist you're from a country when you're not from there? Why Americans have this intense identity crisis and try to look really authentic?

[@jake-qn3tl]

They are from there if that's their ancestry. It's called blood and genetics. I know that you know that. Don't be obtuse.

[@Cio_d-borba]

They don't claim to be italian citizens, they are just proud to be italian, in the sens of ethnically italian. Nothing wrong with that

[@aryatalebniahir3843]

@@jake-qn3tl I don't think Italy/ any Italian citizen claims them. Don't be obtuse.

[@jake-qn3tl]

@@aryatalebniahir3843 Who cares? There are Italians outside of Italy. If someone has Italian grandparents, somehow they're not Italian? Lol

[@bluesoul7163]

Cause Americans don’t exist actually… they are a bunch of British, French, Germans etc etc who colonized a whole continent, committed the biggest genocide in human history and than after some centuries other people and races joined the group lol…. As Italians, Irish, Jews etc etc

[@TRATTORE1225]

Bullishit come back to Italy if you want to be traditional Italian e parla Italiano no Inglese!

[@fabriziocoppola6519]

I am Italian and I totally agree with him.

[@aryatalebniahir3843]

99.9% sopranos+godfather+Hollywoodian concept of identity 0.1% Maltese

[@jamiejosh96]

Italians do not see you as Italian. You are as American as can be

[@John-en4gn]

Paesano non lo usano neanche al sud è un termine cinematografico.

[@SirPano85]

Some centuries ago I'm sure I had an ancestor from Germany, I know few word in german so I must be a proud german immigrant.... Who cares if was centuries ago, still connected, I'm sure....

[@gabrielboi3465]

"fatherland" would be more correct, in italian we say "Patria"

[@SirPano85]

Non avevo mai pensato alla parola patria in quel senso, sarò che me ne sbatto di certi argomenti però sono sempre contento d'imparare cose "nuove".

[@80amnesia]

i agree with him about holding the tradition, that is to be respected

[@nugolderp4115]

He holds a parody of Italian culture that was made popular by Super Mario, as any other Italian-amrican

[@silasrodriguesgoncalvesjun5191]

Italy is a great and lovely country. Anyone of italian origin should be proud of it

[@louporreca3795]

Bravo!

[@Ex-memegodita]

You can identify as an Italian if you watch the serie A or the formula 1 or both.

[@Letyparatore]

Si ma non mi parli italiano standard, se incontri gente italiana per quanto amichevole non puoi fare " we uagliò bell cumpà". E ia su, un pò di formalità almeno. Ecco cosa vi rende diversi, non capite nemmeno queste piccole cose che ci rendono differenti. Bello che mantenete le tradizioni ecc, ma noi siamo andati avanti, voi siete rimasti negli anni passati. Non è che gli italiani sono rimasti come pensate voi.

[@kaycey7361]

Lol l, you are more italian than the people of italy . Right... You are like long lost italian outpost cut off from the mother country. While mother country evolved, you hold on to 1900s era customs as if it was the last update you got from your homeland developer.

[@MegaMayday16]

Please Italians explain my why you have heart of stones. Don't you celebrate if the offspring of your land continue traditions in the diaspora? We Moroccans go crazy about diaspora keeping up tradition the Jewish Moroccan community left Morocco for Israel France and Canada and we go made of happiness when we se a Jewish wedding is celebrated the Moroccan style and they play traditional songs. But I guess the Jews were really really part of our culture and society and the migration took place recently so everyone in Morocco has grandparents who tells them about the good Jewish neighbors and friends that left

[@TheLizardOne]

Okay I would add maybe you werent born in italy and not even raised there and you guys keep some of the traditions but real traditions are there the real good quality food is in italy...and believe me there is a big difference. I was born and raised in puglia ...just go there and stay there at least one year , you will tell me you were right

[@robertm.serrato258]

Come on! Your missing the point! I’m also a Proud American-Sicilian/Italian. Proud of the heritage! Just like millions of American-Italians who are proud of their ethnic background. I have a beautiful Italian 🇮🇹 flag outside of my house. Proud of both 🇺🇸🇮🇹

[@msch7620]

People had to adapt with what there was where they were.

[@mrburns2128]

@@robertm.serrato258 nobody has an italian flag in their home in Italy. We are not a nation extablished for centuries, we have been a blend of different little states since the Middle Ages and the Regno d'Italia was born in the second half of 19th century. Sicily was part of the Regno delle due Sicilie more than It has been a part of Italy, that's why your ancestors spoke Sicilian and I'm not so sure they spoke the Italian language. Don't kid yourself with a misplaced pride.

[@Sheep-Shagger]

​@@mrburns2128cazzo sta a di' almeno qua tutti hanno sia na' bandiera italiana e sarda

[@Sheep-Shagger]

​@@jake-qn3tlheart attack at 30

[@danielefabbro822]

Paesano! (From the same "paese" village/town) ✋

[@chiarabettoni2352]

Mi fa morire ...quando dice napoletana ha l accento giusto e cosi anche quando dice calabrese

[@simonepiscedda2119]

And I add.....Italian migrants have an unsurpassable attachment to their homeland, something that we natives do not have, we often speak badly of our country

[@ElRiki428]

“Napolidan” ITS NAPOLITANO. Stop leaving out letters this isnt france😂😂

[@alessandrogalli1609]

Napulidaneee with Lots of E But almost silent, musical and softly, flowing is the Neapolitan dialect

[@DeeDeeM88]

Why don’t Italians like Italian Americans? Hispanic ppl in America living here for generations have no problem with other Hispanics who just got here, or are still in their native countries. Those Hispanics don’t reject us. There is a whole rejection culture going on here, why? Are Italians from Italy embarrassed by Italian Americans? It’s the only thing I can’t think of.

[@AllezThierryHenry]

That’s not really true. Americans of Hispanic descent who’ve lived in the US for 2-3 + generations usually don’t speak Spanish fluently and recent immigrants from Latin America don’t really see them as equally Hispanic / latino

[@DeeDeeM88]

"Recent" immigants absolutely recognize when someone is hispanic even if someone isn't fluent in Spanish.. and if you aren't they don't REJECT YOU. Bc they are the ones coming HERE. has nothing to do w/ my original question, about why Italians FROM or IN Italy reject Italian Americans. Now if they immigrate here to be Americans too and reject their ppl thats ridiculous. @@AllezThierryHenry

[@AllezThierryHenry]

@@DeeDeeM88 Latinos make fun of American Hispanics who can’t speak Spanish all the time. They're shamed. They’re called fake Latinos, Americanized, pochos or gringos. Italian Americans reject “Italian” Americans as Italian because most of them have been living in the States for several generations and are *culturally American*. The key word is culture. If you can’t speak the language, how can you actually participate in a culture? It’s very straightforward

[@DeeDeeM88]

AGAIN, they are not rejected by ppl in Latin America. Bc ppl in latin America could care less, they aren't embarrassed by latinos living in the USA who learned the language and made it here. They strive to do that as well.. I know. You are talking about new immigrants and how they might feel about Americanized Latinos. I'm talking about PPL IN ITALY. They are embarrassed by Italian Americans, period. My question was why. @@AllezThierryHenry

[@AllezThierryHenry]

@@DeeDeeM88 si no hablas español, no eres latina. Es simple, ser latino es tener una cultura latina no se trata de una ascendencia racial o de los origenes de sus abuelos

[@tlst94]

He said "Paisano(Peasant)" as in Super Mario Bros Super Show.

[@kona2001]

Paesano* - It actually means "person from the same town"

[@tlst94]

@@kona2001 How come Google Translated say so otherwise? 🤔

[@hannahmurray103]

That’s a great guy right there

[@Degrees-mx7ts]

Great american man

[@000EatMan000]

They're holding Italian American tradition...which is fine, there's nothing wrong with that, there's a lot to celebrate about it, it's just in many ways a world apart from Italian tradition. It's not completely different, but when the Italians came over the literally could not do the same things they did in Italy. They adapted. They made lives for themselves in a different part of the world based on what they knew. Again, that's to be celebrated, but it's not the same as what the Italians in italy do.

[@matthewackermanaski9687]

How??? You don't even speak the language

[@JamesMartinelli-jr9mh]

Because our grandparents were so authentic that they didn't speak "Italian". they spoke to us in dialect ....

[@CiceroSapiens]

I'm confused how he even has this accent. Liked I lived in NYC a decade, and no one has this accent anymore. Maybe Staten Island? Long Island? And direct parents from Italy is ...unusual. The immigration wave of Italians to the East Coast was after the turn of the 20th century. My great grandparents emigrated in 1910, 1914. I think the video is a bit suss.

[@msch7620]

How do you know? He’s 2nd generation.

[@CiceroSapiens]

@@msch7620 just incredibly cool and unusual

[@mrburns2128]

​@@JamesMartinelli-jr9mhAutentic means ignorant? Italian has been the national language since 1861, sir. Americans with some italian ancestors are frozen in a past which doesn't exist anymore, I hope they can embrace their identity without nostalgia and live fully the "americaness"

[@carolbenson6524]

Hooray 🎉

[@vinnolano]

First of all it's not Nabolitan. It's Napolitano.

[@stefanoalbertario5055]

No, it's "Napoletano".

[@vijayalaxmimangaonkar3107]

Meanwhile the two Italian guys casually reacting on how these guys are fucking Italian traditions.

[@Jeorgios]

I’m italian and i don’t think that people like you shouldn’t be defined Italians but I think that is too much when people that had just a great gran father who was Italian start to say that they’re Italians

[@CiceroSapiens]

People say Italian for shorthand, but it's "of Italian descent" - even Italian American doesn't seem right since I'm not an immigrant. I had four Italian great grandparents, out of 8, and too bad they didn't tough it out, and came to this distopian hellhole. Ofc instantly plunged into wars for several generations. Most of my family travels to Italy really regularly, but I'm preparing for my first trip :( I want to go to Greece and Rome, since I studied classics, but also to all the places my great grandparents lived, which includes Rome. On my brothers first trip to Rome, I sent him to visit all these monuments, and he was like, "thanks, i wouldnt have known this was here! I would have just gone to the bars." 😂

[@msch7620]

Well, they can have the nationality. If they are American and great grand pa is Italian they haven’t lost the citizenship. So technically they can say they are Italian. I know it’s strange for me too but if they still have a connection or are making an effort to connect I don’t see a problem.

[@LilMods]

YOU ARE RIDICULOUS PAL 🤡

[@msch7620]

@@koschmx I never said he claimed to have Italian citizenship or to be Italian. I t don’t know why you say that. And yes, you are American, just like I’m French but it doesn’t change our Italian background though. Especially if you kept some kind of connection. I bet if I were to see you, you wouldn’t have to tell me, that you are Italian-American because I would simply see it. I usually notice when someone has an Italian background because there is something familiar to me. Whether it’s your features or your body language or facial expressions, I’ll see it. My family left Sicily to France and Belgium when lots of other families left for the USA and Canada. I live in Canada now. One time I met a guy through work here in Canada and told him and it turned out his family was from the same town as my grandparent and his mother knew my grand ma because they worked together at the market when they were kids. He even sent me a picture of his grandpa and my great grand pa at the market. My family sold veggies and his grand pa was a butcher. Never doubt that you carry somehow your ancestors with you.

[@msch7620]

@@koschmx I’m not from Quebec and I don’t live in Quebec. I’m from France and I live in the West. The French Canadians you are talking about are probably snow birds. When Canadians retire they sometimes go live in sunny places in the winter and go back to Canada in the spring to not lose access to universal healthcare. They go to a place where they are sure there is nice weather in the winter. My in-laws go to California. I don’t know if you read my comment. In a way or another I will probably know that you have an Italian background. I’m not talking about acting stereotypical or look at your name. I don’t have an Italian name myself and I look like Snow White. Lol. I studied in Germany. I was not in Bayern though. I enjoyed it but it’s a culture that a little too cold/rigid for me. Except Berlin. I loved Berlin. But it was long ago and I bet it has changed too much now. My family went to the South of France now. They wanted a mix between France and Italy.

[@thejokesonyou566]

Bro i have the same background as this guy but reversed, my dads napoletana my mums calabrese

[@ricskull2660]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 holding the tradition here yeah right tradition my ass Italians in Italy don't recognize u American Italians cause of tradition culture and how Americanazed u are To him to say we are truly Italians is just hilarious has to be the best joke I heard this week 😂😂😂😂

[@ramonbril]

ciao caro, ma sei verramente anchora Italiano?

[@mondotattico7112]

we don't care 😂😂😂😂

[@havanacreates8370]

How do you guys not know what he said, I can’t remember

[@JamesMartinelli-jr9mh]

I met a 30 year old Milanese here in the US. He told me that all young people are the same worldwide - the only difference is language. For me he is a European - nothing particularly Italian.

[@Sheep-Shagger]

Atleast here there be hella of a difference beetwen places like ya ain't comparin' a brit to an italian they be two diff breeds

[@SirPano85]

It's because he's from Milano, great cities are almost the same in all the west world and are not rappresentative of the nation where they are. I know very well the milanesi because I'm from Bergamo but I travelled a lot around Italy as an adult so I can compare.

[@dazpatreg]

Not Italian

[@silasrodriguesgoncalvesjun5191]

He's not saying he's a real italian. He's just saying that he's proud of his italian origin

[@danielcarvalho1453]

She told white people to eat nothing but potato skins but potatoes are native to Perù. She is racist against Inca Amerindians.

[@grrrrr81]

Cmq lui magari ha ancora le tradizioni di 100 anni fa che in italia non esistono piu o che sono cambiati ed evoluti, per me sono sempre ancora italiani anche se sono nati in america

[@bluesman1947]

Yes you are Italians that speak english.

[@SirPano85]

This "italian" think "paesano" means from the same country but it means from the same village..... Anyway, your parents or ancestors moved. Do you really think we care if you hold traditions or not? It's your business not our, in italy we others problems then thinking about you.

[@msch7620]

The Italian economy should thank them because without the mass immigration of the past there wouldn’t have been so much exportation of Italian products. Italy is still greatly benefiting from the mass emigration to this day. Don’t spit on it.

[@SirPano85]

​@@msch7620 Nooooo. 1 wrong mouse roll and my long long answer is deleted.... Fuck! Anyway: 1-You're right but I'm not spitting on it. italo-americans behave as american stereotypes about italians 2- Italians in Italy just live their everyday life without care about "italianity" unless you're a nationalist. They take "italianity" too seriously in a wrong way like a zealot.

[@Ama94947]

I doubt if he does this for other people or for Italy. Its just his identity. So bitter😂

[@vittoriovedli4819]

Dio, che simpatia! 😁 Commento sgradevole e sbagliato, comunque. A molti può far piacere, questo amore per l'Italia e i propri antenati.

[@teknykill]

Im Scicilain and Little Barese❤

[@m.k.s.7417]

Hey, how do you think; Italian_AmeriCANs/others; could: support/BENEFIT: Italian_"Soccer"/FOOTball; [FOOTie/"Calcio"]: -(SERIE_A), Etc.!?!!?? -M.K.S.

[@Caesar-pj5kc]

Keeping it HARDCORE, ALL DAY, EVERY DAY I love being Italian . Italians must marry Italians. Keeping traditions alive 🇮🇹💯🇺🇲

[@DumbseekerFrampt]

Sei italiano?

[@andreas25693]

@@DumbseekerFrampt Di solito quelli che urlano di italianità sono americani

[@Caesar-pj5kc]

I'm 100% Italian Blood, born in America (Italian-American) ✝️ 🇮🇹🐐🇺🇲💯✝️💪

[@Caesar-pj5kc]

I'm 100% Italian Blood, born in America (Italian-American) ✝️ 🇮🇹🐐🇺🇲💯✝️💪

[@despeckt]

@@DumbseekerFrampt nah, this is an american boy that can't accept his own nationality.

[@andrearoma5785]

No man we understand, blood isn't water

[@nicklanglois2971]

My best friends mother is Calabrese

[@mondotattico7112]

ma va non rompere 😂😂

[@alessandrobasso9917]

When the ancestors of these Italian Americans emigrated, Italy didn’t existed yet. It was a broken country with a vast majority of illiterate people, with regions who had been dominated for centuries by different powers (Austria and France in the North, Spain in the South, the Vatican state in the middle, and other smaller actors). If you think that people spoke predominantly dialect until the 50/60’s of 20th century and didn’t speak Italian as their primary language until the advent of television, you will comprehend why the people that emigrated had not the cultural means to keep Italian alive. Moreover, there is a tremendous confusion, these people of south Italy ascendancy think South Italy is Italy, actually there are many differences among north, middle and south Italy, in fact the unification happened in 1861 was not really felt by the people, it was not a phenomenon like French Revolution, it was a tiny minority with the support of France which did it, and there was a vast indifference to it, if not opposition. Differences has survived till nowadays especially in borders regions

[@patriciamartin6756]

Good. I agree 100% MY entire family came from 4 regions in Italy. Venice, Bari , Puglia and Sicily. I have been to Italy. I prefer Italian American food 100%

[@TargatiNa]

Venice is not a region and Bari it’s in Puglia. Go study

[@CiceroSapiens]

Well I'm Italian American and i literally import all of my ingredients from the Mediterranean, so keep that in mind when you say you like it more 😂

[@CiceroSapiens]

Also when i come back from Europe and look at the pizza in New York, i can suddenly see how long is been sitting out. 🤢 Not a fan of New York pizza, change my mind.

[@Liaros_]

Don't worry, you are not Italian at all.

[@bluesoul7163]

If you really prefer american food over italian food and this is not a joke, you dont even need a psichiatrist lol you directly need to ask God, new taste buds, because yours are now full of fast food and other crap and you are no longer recoverable… Seriously, you're the first person in 40 years I swear I've ever heard say such a thing.

[@lordbeaky3496]

It's the same thing with latinos and latinas we are trying our best. To hold on to our culture. Food. Music. Customs and traditions but, these generations of latinos and latinas want to be white so badly its sad

[@yusefnegao]

It’s very different much more immigration of Latin Americans than Italians aka actual latins/latinos

[@NorfPhillyInstacart]

My grandma is Italian and I’m fully black her family do not accept us at all so I can understand where true Italians feel about Italian Americans

[@bigchillingmode]

He knows a guy that eats Hawaiian pizza

[@vittorio148]

Learn to pronounce the words first then talk about conserving culture

[@dankinel3263]

Terrone spotted

[@GiacomoAgosti-s5l]

Oh yep holding tradition with that horrendous accent

[@AA-wu2fk]

It's crazy.how a lot of people think you have to speak italian to be italian thats funny

[@mattiabacchetta1705]

Not different from the other european countries :) we (italians and europeans) have our own identity, why all these people are forcing to shape that identity in theirs? There's nothing bad being american; indeed, it's a great country.

[@swampraider3488]

Gli Americani e l'avversione all'apprendere lingue altrui. Oltretutto siete i primi a pretendere di parlare Inglese su suolo americano (cosa anche giusta, ma non venite a rompere le scatole a noi sulla nostra lingua e tradizione)

[@jake-qn3tl]

​@@mattiabacchetta1705Ancestry and nationality aren't always the same

[@bryanb.386]

Talk with you hands, eat carbs, be loud, or more accurately notice that people around you are looking at you funny for no particular reason which you try to shake off, but they get on your nerves...

[@bluesoul7163]

Cringe

[@The55nomad]

Go.

[@The55nomad]

Ah da da dah.

[@richardcollins8398]

And you are American. Not Italian. 🤷

[@silasrodriguesgoncalvesjun5191]

He's not saying that he's a real italian. He's just saying that he's proud of his Family origin

[@richardcollins8398]

@@silasrodriguesgoncalvesjun5191 I hope he is not. Cos he is as American as it comes. 🤷

[@Cio_d-borba]

He is ethincally italian, that's what he means. You can even see it in his face, i guess he's only a 2nd or 3rd generation migrant

[@richardcollins8398]

@@Cio_d-borba I see. It's clear now. He is 100% American.

[@Cio_d-borba]

@@richardcollins8398 He has italian facial features is what I meant

[@richardcollins8398]

There is no such a thing as Italian Americans. Or British American, Scottish, Polish, African and so on. If you are born in America, you are just an American.

[@Sheep-Shagger]

Depends if ya parents be born there then ya still italian but if it be your grandparents or shit then ya still an American

[@richardcollins8398]

@@Sheep-Shagger If you are born in America, then you are American. Simple as that.

[@richardcollins8398]

@@koschmx It's very simple. Not Italian. 🤷

[@richardcollins8398]

@@koschmx You are Italian with Nazi ancestry. Simple as that.

[@richardcollins8398]

@@koschmx I am glad he didn't. Cos he's not.