My Brother Found Our Family in Italy

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My brother, Chris, sat down to talk with me about our Italian heritage and share stories from his first visit to find family in Italy.
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Come join me on a new docu-series that explores identity, racial tensions in the South during the 20th century, and the unique experiences of those who historically called Louisiana home.
My name is Danielle Romero, and all my life, I have romanticized Louisiana.
Growing up in New York, it represented a place where I could step back the sepia-toned life of my great grandmother, Lola Perot, who died before I was born.
Now, it was time to go back to Louisiana--although I had no idea what the truth would be or what questions to ask---who was Lola really? Who were we?
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[@nytn]

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[@DrGobii]

Gamergate

[@findingbeautyinthepain8965]

Don’t you want to just shake supper outgoing people sometimes? 😂 I laughed so hard when your brother said, “Just go to Italy. You can just show up at the family’s house.” Extroverts have no idea how hard it is for people more introverted. We think of every possible social interaction before doing anything! 😂

[@christopherbrignola8983]

It’s funny you say that I’m not at all extroverted but I push myself to leave my comfort zone as much as possible. “Buy the ticket” - HST

[@findingbeautyinthepain8965]

@@christopherbrignola8983 Really!? Maybe you just come off extroverted when you are with your sister. When I’m with my family, I’m pretty loud, very animated, I embrace being weird and quirky, and we’re always laughing. Basically, like you and Daniella! But when I’m with new people, I’m quiet as a church mouse and have to work up the nerve to talk. My teachers used to tell my mom I was shy, and my mom would be asking, “What’s your secret? I can’t get her to stop talking for 5 seconds at home.” 😅

[@nytn]

I get drained as soon as I open my bedroom door 😅

[@shereeowens3470]

My husbands Father was from Sicily. One of nine siblings. When he mowed grass in the summer he was so dark. He was naturally dark. His family went to Mexico when he was 6 and he got lost. The lady that brought him back thought he was Mexican. I miss him very much. We were married 33 years when he passed away.

[@nytn]

Oh I’m so sorry for your family’s loss. I miss my grandpa so much. Wish I could have asked him some questions!

[@DetectiveJames2468]

im so for your loss

[@findingbeautyinthepain8965]

Everyone always thought my southern Italian dad was Mexican, despite him being 6 foot! His complexion could pass as Mexican, but that’s literally it. I never understood it lol. To me, it looks like he could pass for a mix of European and African more than any type of Hispanic nationality. My mom has people asking if she is Hispanic a lot too, but she actually could pass, so it’s not as weird lol.

[@jayste9334]

Wow, my grandfather on my dads side...was an even skinned light brown caramel, american black man. (He had silky straight white hair at that time) When we went to Hawaii, they kept asking him if he was local, Kama Aina, "child of the land". We would've got discounts on everything 😂

[@adamvasques4789]

I started watching your channel I believe shortly after you started it was a year and a half or two years ago and I enjoyed it. 8 out of 10 of ur videos go something like " someone called my Sicilian grandmother the n-word 80 yrs ago" ,who cares. Stop with the mental and verbal gymnastics to make you or someone a victim. To me you appear to be a well off white f****** upity a****** It looks you came from a good loving family hard-working has their stuff well together. you I imagine are the same.why not stop stirring the racial pot from ur computer, and go down town wherever you live or to your nearest city (you'll find people of all colors I'm sure plenty of them btw will be white , that you probably would throw up before you'd normally talk to) and try to extend some Grace to your fellow man. It could do more good than sitting on your computer saying "some awful white person called your Sicilian grandmother a N 100 years ago, how appalling" It must be rough coming from a functional upper middle-class family and being beautiful .

[@Scilo14]

Man I love you guys chemistry! Your brother is hilarious 😂. Would definitely grab a drink 🍺 with him. Nice interview as always.

[@nytn]

Thank you! He would definitely take you up on it. He’s the one with all the friends in our family 😅

[@JohnnyLodge2]

I like how your brother felt accepted. People always talk about hostility but when I went back to sicily as soon as they heard my last name they were very accepting of me corrected me when I said I was Italian by calling me one of their own, reitalianized my given name and then used the nickname for it. Exchanged whatsapp with some people that I still keep in contact with

[@rroadmap]

What a fun interview! Your brother seems to have lived a very interesting and adventurous life. Thanks for having him on.

[@stephanienwadieiiamhybasia]

Your brother is so funny 😂. Thank you for sharing. He should write a book about his travels. Very informative and inspiring.

[@intodaysepisode...]

Chris has had an AWESOME life so far!

[@nytn]

I still don’t know where he lives right now 😀

[@michaelhowell8412]

This Brother sounds like he'd be so much fun

[@GrannyFromItaly]

This is the funniest and most refreshing video yet. Your brother could easily pass for southern Italian with a plus, very hansome. Keep them coming love your work. ❤❤❤

[@nytn]

he has so many stories. trying to save them all!

[@nicolettastrada5976]

He looks South American

[@japeri171]

Your conversations with your family are always rich in details and good stories

[@nytn]

Thank you! I have one more brother who talked to me over Christmas. His conversation needed a little heavier hand with the editing though 😅

[@annab.2086]

Your brother is hilarious!!! I can totally relate to the feeling of being at home when in Italy, but maybe its because I was born and raised there! Even though I lived most of my life in the USA...being in Italy always feels surreal.

[@nytn]

i hope i get a chance to go!

[@SalyLuz-hc6he]

⁠I’m a new subscriber today. I just can’t quit watching your videos! Family heritage, law & citizenship, ethnicity, culture, history all combined together- all these different cultures and unique ways, these are things I’m really interested in! The first videos I saw were your videos talking about Finnish/Nordic/Ojibwe Finndian people, which some of my friends are. I really thought you were an indigenous, Native woman!! 😁 You look similar to some of my Ojibwa, Cree & Sioux friends who live up north, near the US Canada border. Please go to Italy with this brother if at all possible- I would sure love some videos from that fun trip! & I recommend that you go while you’re still young and healthy! I put off exploring my family heritage too long. I always thought I would end up living in Europe, but life got in the way, I made some stupid choices and now I’ve had accidents & cancer. I’m left physically challenged now, so that I wouldn’t be able to walk enough to really explore & enjoy it. Life can easily get in the way; so I recommend you start planning a trip today! I think you would have such a blast with this brother! He seems like a great guy. He can show you everywhere he went before, & introduce you to people. You can probably still get your Italian passports- It would be an awesome adventure, and you could make so many amazing videos from that kind of trip- wow! I can’t help smiling just thinking about it! I would sure love to see those videos! & honestly your brother is right. It’s a good idea to have a passport with more than one country if possible. Depending on how US elections turn out this fall, you might want to travel somewhere safer on a non-US passport. My husband always meant to get his Italian passport, as his grandpa was also born in Italy. Grandpa and his brothers came over from Sicily, so they wouldn’t end up having to fight for Mussolini. I have a friend with both a US & an Italian passport, who has needed to use the Italian one to travel specific places where he would probably not be welcome if he used his US passport. It would just give you so many more options! I’m hoping for this one, for you! Love your Content, and I’m looking forward to seeing many more of your videos! ♥️🦢🌲🌴😍🌅

[@copperweaver13]

Thanks! I am greatful for your channel and the conversations you are having. ❤

[@nytn]

That’s really generous of you. Thank you so much!

[@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts]

Your family members are just natural media personalities. All one has to do is turn on a camera and ask a question and the interview just flows. I have an image of your brother in his T-shirt and bathing suit traveling Europe like it's normal occurrence. He's so chill and could field any question that was presented to him regarding his attire.😉🙂 ❤ LOVED this interview. ❤😍❤

[@patrickdeady410]

Another interesting video, Danielle! Your brother has certainly been full of wanderlust! Hope you bring him back in the future!

[@jeffreycollier1059]

Your brother is such a cool and wonderful person. His travels and experience are so picturesque and hilarious! I would love to hear more about your family ties and American experience. What to ask Chris the next time.... anything! 😊😊😊

[@everettscott4745]

I absolutely love this family. Bringing SO much knowledge and originality.

[@m0thdm]

You guys rock.

[@w.alan.21]

Chris has a great way with words and communicating. You should have him on again.

[@geauxel]

Oh yes, the Italians are just as your brother described. I’ve been twice and each time I leave my heart gets confused and my emotions flame up as though I’m supposed to stay. Mi piace tutti! Thanks for sharing your brother’s story.

[@PrincesSarah70]

Wow, this was interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@soldiernomore3843]

I have seen a few of your videos and enjoy them. I was born here but never was there a time we weren’t Italian. Your brother was a farmer they must have loved him for that. Have ever thought how many things you do or think that are linked to this rich culture? As Italians we take pride in many things that others just don’t think about. One of the things I love about southern Italians is you KNOW they are there and no one does it better than them. Did your brother realize he found part of himself? Saluti

[@jerometurner8759]

Another great interview. What an interesting life your brother lives. Wish I could go to another country like that for 3 months and explore. What an adventure!

[@leenam.4578]

Hilarious interview with your brother: I laughed so hard, my eyes watered!

[@nytn]

my mom came out the next morning and was like…that was a lot of laughing down here 🤣

[@debismith6239]

Danielle, I loved this interview with your brother. Italy would be at the top of my bucket list to travel. I love American Italian food so i was really bummed out working on our tree to not see any Italian. My two sisters did not show any either in their DNA results. Your brother reminds me of my 40 yr old son. When he used to cut grass in high school, etc, he was always getting questioned what was he - Mexican, Arabic, native american. He looks just like my dad who tanned really well. We are still searching. One of the political tarot card readers, Celtic Sheila, was invited to Sicily by an older female subscriber last yr or so. She saw them harvesting the olives and pressing for olive oil. It was wonderful. Also I think Lake Cuomo is where actor George Clooney, wife Amal and children live. Keep up the good work Debi from SW Ohio

[@angelomezzini7849]

Il cibo italiano americano non è vero cibo italiano è una brutta copia😢

[@gypsy1588]

This is an awesome interview with your brother. Thank you.

[@kaiyakershaw1028]

Your brother reminds me of my brother! He’s traveled all over the world and he makes friends and does crazy things like that all the time!

[@ashac7183]

Please, I need more Italy stories and I need you two to move to Italy to create a KZbin series of you trying to renovate your ancestral property. I know that requires money and you have a family, but it would be be epic 😆💕

[@rosecady6821]

This was great to listen to! I spent a year in Italy, 30 years ago, and noticed the same things in regard to how things are there compared to the USA. What a great walk down memory lane, thank you!

[@SalyLuz-hc6he]

You and this brother should definitely go to Italy! Get your Italian passports now, before you get older and have more physical challenges traveling. There were so many places I wanted to go, so much family history I wanted to explore in person, and it just got put off because life is busy and I didn’t make it a priority. Now I have so many physical challenges for example I can’t do stairs well and I can’t walk as far as I would like to anymore. Please go with this brother, go explore have him show you where he’s been and visit new places too. Show us what it’s like - I would really really love to see that! ♥️😍🌲🌅

[@nytn]

aww i hope to!!

[@James-oi7mz]

Fun and interesting interview!

[@ndr226]

Italy is ANCIENT, don't forget roman empire gave birth to 30+ countires. Genetic diversity reflect magnificent and rich history.

[@veronicalevin2325]

Totally

[@augustevarkalaite321]

The reason you were able to go to Croatia and renew your stay was because at that time Croatia was not in Schengen zone. Now it is and you would need to go to other non-Schengen zone country to renew your stay in Schengen zone. That would be for example Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[@genehammond7239]

That was very enjoyable !!!😊👍👍

[@CarolynEHS]

This is awesome! In my next life, I want to be your brother, LOL !!!! I've travelled quite a bit for business and leisure, but nothing like him. Thank you so much for sharing this!! Went to Italy in 2018, going back in 2024 to visit some small towns in the south where my ancestors were from. My sister spent a month in Rosetto Valfortore and she said it is the true southern Italy. Soooo different from the larger cities. Merry Christmas !!

[@esmeraldapooner751]

You both look good in jean colors. I only travel to Mexico and that was a different experience than the Mexican-Americans I grow up around in the USA. I came back using a lot of their grocery products. I used their laundry soaps/detergent. Buying different kinds of catus, potatoes, onion, and chiles which I would have passed up. Zote and foca soap is so good. You two should travel together.

[@lemonlark2949]

Fun interview!

[@sandrasmith7091]

That was so kewl. I enjoyed his insights on his experiences.

[@DetectiveJames2468]

Im from North Carolina and i like how yall are Italian-Americans who actually embrace yall’s Italian background, my dad is dark just like your brother and thats makes sense because yall look like Hispanic-Americans who are Mestizo of Honduran/Salvadoran origins which is interesting since both ethnics have their roots tracing back to Latin Europe.

[@angelomezzini7849]

Sono italiano molti di noi sono scuri perchè specie al sud Italia è in spagna/Portogallo ci sono stati per secoli gli arabi

[@gazoontight]

Great interview.

[@karaleblanc7880]

I totally relate! I always knew my mom's heritage but my dad's is a mystery. I'm just now trying to research his side. Every answer is different. The journey has been interesting. I'm enjoying your channel!

[@chocolateladycap2773]

This is very interesting/informative

[@thatswhatshesaid14]

I love all your video's. They give me a lot of hope that ill be able to find my missing ancestors. Right now Im stuck on my 2nd great grandpa's parents. They were Italians from Turin. His fathers last name was Rinaldo. His mothers last name was Obdenini. Apparently Obdenini doesnt exist as a surname. So im stuck 🤷🏽‍♀️ I may never find out how or why my 2nd great grandfather left Italy. But I have hope 💚 Great video! I enjoyed listening to you two 🤗

[@FishNHistory]

Danielle I've wanted to tell you a story for a couple weeks. My paternal Grandfather is mostly Irish and both his parents were immigrants to Canada. His Dad was born in what became Northern Ireland and his mother was born in Windsor England but had an Irish father born in Glasgow and an English mother. Both my grandmothers have very strong and old New England lines. I expect a lot of connections in North America through those lines. But I found a connection to my direct paternal line that immigrated to North Carolina or southern Virginia in the early 1700s. My last name is Farrell and I now know by Y DNA testing that it comes from county Longford although in recent times my family is from County Fermanagh. They had to have moved north. The people who came to North America in the early 1700s had the last name Harrell, at least when they got here. It looks like they were part of the same sub group of the clan or whatever that was allied to British or English. Maybe even different choices after serving in the army at some point. It makes me have to rethink some of my matches. I have huge number of matches in the Southern United states that I still assume connect through another line but it is amazing to see how everything connects.

[@FishNHistory]

The place where my Great Grandfather was born basically doesn't exist anymore. It was absorbed back into the larger farm it was split off from.

[@FishNHistory]

@nytn

[@Ariom76]

When I was a child the "three days sauce" was a nightmare for me! All the family was reunited ti di tomato sauce for 10 hours a day, everyone contributed. But than we had good tomato sauce for an entire year and it was very good. I didn't think that people in the South still do that (I live in the North).

[@nytn]

this made me laugh!! those are long days 😩

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

When families were not yet made up of divorced individuals, "tomato sauce" was also made in the North. In the 1960s/70s, many families did it, without having to be southerners.

[@mjivory410]

​@@giorgiodifrancesco4590In certain outlying neighborhoods in SF,CA (& in North Beach), you can still find stoves downstairs in the garage for cooking **all day** tomato sauce, __ in the (relative coolness) of the garage😅😮😊😂___

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

@@mjivory410 ahahaha

[@Adam-nw1vy]

I've seen a number of KZbin videos of folks in the US doing this and it was quite interesting. Boiling the bottles is what keeps them fresh because everything becomes sanitized.

[@joycejackson9315]

Very adventurous brother for sure. Great video.

[@Giuseppe_1994]

I see some fellow Sicilians, I click. Great show!

[@nytn]

😀

[@lovealwaysbibi3336]

Your brother is very Creole presenting! He'd fit right in down in the bayou! He's lived an awesome life!

[@kitty_s23456]

Thank you for the vid - very interesting interview & experience of your bro. Btw can you enable subtitles/ closed caption? Thnx!

[@nytn]

Oh shoot, it should be enabled and ready to get turned on as needed. I’ll double check. Thank you!

[@kitty_s23456]

​@@nytnclosed caption is ON now. Thnx!

[@RhondaRachel2003]

So interesting. Thanks for that.

[@ernestoborserini7687]

I'm a northern Italian and I can tell you from my personal experience that southern Italian have a very big heart and are wonderful people. I have Sicilian friends who are like brothers to my. Southern Italy is, at least in my opinion, the most beautiful part of Italy.

[@axjohn]

A most excellent viewing experience!❤❤❤

[@helenbryan1752]

Great interview!

[@mrnancy1114]

I would wonder how it would effect you emotionally if you visited Ghana and the Slave castle, would be an interesting project given what you know about your heritage.

[@komiczar]

Interesting thought-provoking suggestion. Thanx

[@TdT2211]

Not the marriage opportunity! LMAO That definitely let's you feel welcomed and a need to run at the same time. 😂 I hope you get to visit Italy one day! And traveling with your brother there would only make it better. AND, maybe we will get to see some too!

[@stephenfisher3721]

In the United States, it is totally acceptable to eat as you want, foods mixed together, in any order. On a trip to Italy, I was surprised to learn that Italians have food rules; foods are eaten in a series of courses; foods must be eaten only in certain ways and in certain combinations.

[@SalyLuz-hc6he]

My Sicilian mother-in-law would not let us have salad first. So many things were a culture shock for me. But it’s good to be flexible and appreciate cultural differences wherever you are!

[@marilynm677]

"A bag of sauce! " 🤣

[@skieye1]

Nicely done Daniella. We recently got back from another trip to Italia. We again visited Napoli. Busy & hectic, but a very cool experience, and amazing street food. Yes, there could be pickpockets, just like any big city, but in my opinion, absolutely safe. A very cool street to walk in the evenings, is Via Toledo. It is packed with young people in the evenings, and 100% safe (full disclosure--I am a nonno). Daniella you must go with your dad.

[@pollyannaprinciple5860]

These are great videos. Wish I could tag team with my family to explore all of our ancestries -- specifically Native American, Jewish, African.

[@daisy4750]

My family is from the south, a small town on top of a mountain and they speak the formal Italian there.

[@enricacantori2984]

Gli orari di apertura dei negozi sono esposti sulle vetrine e se c'è una pausa non è per sedersi sulla porta a non fare niente, ma andare a prendere i figli a scuola, oppure andare a casa a fare tante cose, ecc. I "centri storici" delle città sono "vecchi" perché non è consentito abbattere i muri per costruire nuovi edifici: le case, i palazzi si ristrutturano, cioè non si toccano le pareti esterne, ma all' interno gli appartamenti hanno tutti i confort moderni. In Italia si parla italiano: se qualcuno usa il dialetto non vuol dire che non capiscono se parli italiano. Napoli è una bellissima città, ma in effetti è un po' lontana dal rappresentare la tipica città italiana.

[@ArtVlog]

ero d'accordo con il commento fino all'ultima parte. Napoli rappresenta esattamente una città italiana in quanto è una città italiana e pure una metropoli se vogliamo. Dal loro racconto di "povertà" mi sembra che sia andato probabilmente in qualche paesino di campagna che ovviamente è un'esperienza totalmente diversa dalla città. Le periferie e ovviamente la città sono molto più moderne della sua descrizione, mentre magari qualche paesino di campagna mantiene aspetti più rustici (il suo racconto mi è sembrato pure strano sotto alcuni versi ma non improbabile). Ricordo ancora un'amica del canada che mi chiese se avevamo l'acqua calda 🙃

[@FrancescoRossi-q4s]

From Lombardy, Italy. Interesting. Your brother is "simpatico" and spontaneous, which are qualities much appreciated by Italians. Many of the things he says are not applicable to Northern Italy, where life is - let's say - less relaxed. Also, it is not quite true that Italians live in a bubble, because we have shared land frontiers with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia, and if you cross these borders you won't notice an enormous difference between the standard or style of living. In Switzerland, two cantons - Ticino and Grigioni (in part) - are "Italian-speaking", while Nice and Corsica (now France) and Istria (now Slovenia and Croatia) have historical ties with Italy. Lastly, concerning Ikea, there are 2 stores in Naples and 1 in Salerno. For Do-it-Yourself, there are several outlets of the Leroy Merlin and Brico brands. That may be useful for him on his next trip ;-)

[@LostNFoundASMR]

The way your brother describes Napoli made me want to get up and go now 😅

[@rebeccacampbell8020]

I always tell people that there is a war going on inside me. The Italian side of me wants to enjoy life eating bonbons and stopping to smell the roses,, and the German side wants to go outside with a broom and sweep up the curb - and the Italian side always wins!

[@Helena_helvella.crispa]

That's funny! My German relatives were always sweeping/cleaning the curb and sidewalks, and now I do, too! 😆

[@diegomattia4806]

You should know that Naples is the city with the highest concentration of churches and places of worship in the world. That's why your brother mentioned seeing so many statues of the Madonna and so on. I’ve been watching a lot of your videos lately, and I have to say, even though you're 3rd generation Americans, the way you interact and joke around is extremely Italian. Watching you feels like being at home. P.S.: Tell your brother that he just needed to press the button located behind the circle/glass of the washing machine door. The scene of your brother not finding it had me dying with laughter.

[@nytn]

This was so great, I’m going to send it to my brother. Also it’s nice to know some parts of the heritage are not totally gone. ☺️

[@procrastinator41]

“That was a strong story that everybody could get behind” 🎯

[@conniebrister7229]

Wonderful family!

[@xavierboom9689]

I betcha your brother gets darker in the summer months. I grew up in a Black /Latino neighborhood. He could probably "pass" for either, especially during the months of July and August.

[@nytn]

He definitely does. I’m the SPF queen but pretty sure he’s never used it 😀

[@stevencorrea8032]

I was thinking the same thing I was her complexion as a baby even lighter and I'm so called Black

[@Me2Lancer]

Your brother mentioned seeing shrines and monuments like statues along the road where people would bring tribute honoring the site. This reminds me of a time when i traveled through Mexico. People would leave contributions at such shrines.

[@nytn]

Yes! So similar

[@axjohn]

“Hey, that was my work sauce!” 😂😂😂😂❤

[@nytn]

I was laughing so hard

[@marvinortiz9984]

My GGG-Grandmother's surnames were Aviles Sanchez Curcio. Her Grandfather's surnames were Sanchez Curcio Lopez. He came to Puerto Rico from Murcia, in Spain. His G-Grandfather Thomas Pedro Antonio Curcio was from Bagnoli in the kingdom of Naples and went to Spain after a military career of over 30 years in Naples, where he served under Joseph Puxmarin Fajardo, count of Montealegre. So I confirmed my Italian ancestry right after the Ancestry update took away my 1% Southern Italy. 😂

[@nextlifetimebrendan3940]

Didn’t realize your family is from the Benevento region! My grandmas side is as well as she’s been back 6 times I think and maintained contact with the family so after I graduated college I went too. Everyone was so excited and much more accepting than whatever opinion people online that try to push the “Americans are so distant from Italian culture they don’t know anything!!” Narrative. Although we’re very different, when it’s family they didn’t care how distant it was. We’re still family.

[@stephanienwadieiiamhybasia]

I watched twice. I am happy he learned about permaculture as well.

[@leonoranorman8273]

Making sauce brings me back to Nonna, mom and Zia… I’m Sicilian American first generation so we did bottling of sauce and my Nonno had his own garden of fresh veggies…. So part of my youth

[@KMANelPADRINO]

Reminds me kinda of Assassin’s Creed with the Desmond Miles story. It’s funny how much we can plug into history and enlightenment from it if we try.

[@Lady_Clare4]

😂Your brother is hilarious!

[@marygee3981]

😅There was too much fighting. So our merchants moved to France. Many wealthy Italians built the Chateaux in the Loire Valley.😊

[@lkjh861]

Rookie mistake by your brother ~ Neapolitan and Sicilian are actually considered separate languages from Italian, with quite a few different words, pronounciation and even grammar. They are of course all Romance languages ~ but Neapolitan/Sicilian and Italian are still as different as the Scandinavian languages would be from German or Dutch. 😉

[@nytn]

I’m amazed by all of the languages. But looking back, my grandpa spoke Italian but…I think it was really something else. He would drop the ending vowels

[@kaleahcollins4567]

To be honest I grew up around alot of Italian people I wouldn't see your brother as full blooded Italian. I would def say Hispanic , Arab , even mixed black

[@nytn]

That’s the other side of our heritage!

[@nicolelabram5575]

What?

[@rolandnedd9503]

@@nicolelabram5575The other side of their heritage, the non Italian heritage is from their mother's side.

[@gagoomt4076]

Exactly. She looks exactly like a biracial girl I knew growing up whose mother was African American and the father French American (2nd gen). The brother doesn’t look Italian to me at all id first assume Moroccan or Venezuelan or Brazilian (all groups whom have some Black ancestry) To me it’s clear there is a little African blood under there somewhere. I’m surprised they actually believed they were half Irish, etc but then again you believ what you’re told by family, right?

[@nytn]

Absolutely!

[@valerieminster1626]

Your brother looks a bit like the African American/ Italian football player Franco Harris. Franco passed away last year but he has a son. Maybe you can interview Franco's son about what his father experience growing up.

[@hirsch4155]

I kept waiting for your brother time and again to break into a laugh and I wasn’t disappointed 😊 He also called Lake Como Lake Cuomo I was like no dude that was the governor of NY. 😂

[@nytn]

Hahahaha yess

[@julian-y4k]

This video makes me want to find my relatives who live in America (or who knows where) and invite them to my house to let them discover their origins! (p.s. I laughed too much at the tomato sauce part)

[@nytn]

oh my gosh, I hope we are related. I’m down

[@jaimejaimeChannel]

How did you come out with KZbin? Can't find the video where you were worrying about that.

[@coreylevine8095]

Have you interview your husband about his family tree

[@nytn]

He’s in queue!

[@JaneAtwellRobinson1825NY]

@@nytn oooo! I can't wait! A whole new tree to explore in your videos!

[@nytn]

😅 his family had a document passed down that turned into a hand written paper that said “no gentile blood”. it was in Mexico.

[@sheliamayes8171]

Chris is hilarious. He is a true free spirit. Who leave their clothes in another country at the house of a friend of a friend 😮 ? Still doesn't care how the machine worked . Hilarious 😅😅

[@almightyswizz]

Yep 😂 people were asking for live streams we would eat it up

[@nytn]

I had to edit just a few parts of this convo🙃 I’ll have to practice for live stream approved talk haha

[@BongDonky]

I was born in Cefalu ,Sicilia and moved to California as a 11 yr old in mid 80's. You look somewhat Siciliano. But with a something different added. But your surname is Northern Italiano. As you well know. Just my two cents. Grazie per il video. Salutamu!

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

:-) Nice to see the interpretation of a country by those who don't understand the language. He more or less understood about Italy what a Martian would understand when visiting our planet ;-)

[@nytn]

I am learning something new everyday! Amazing

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

@@nytn Cinque terre never had five kings. The italian language is not born 40 years ago, but in the Medieval time. The problem is that it was only a common poetic language and not a people's language. In Rome you can't find fruits on trees (except in suburban gardens). The Parthenon is in Athens, not in Rome. The lake of Como (a town) has nothing to do with Mario Cuomo. So don't call it Lake Cuomo. :-) Etcetera.

[@clelia7820]

@@giorgiodifrancesco4590 And the etcetera could last hours and even days. But, in fact, it is as if an unaware Martian had fallen into a small village in the Carpathians and then made a report on human beings. However, as a country attached only to its past and resistant to innovation, we have invented quite a few things, we cannot complain.

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

@@clelia7820 No one complains, in fact. Maybe, we should have demolished the Colosseum or Pompeii and built a bunch of skyscrapers.

[@clelia7820]

@@giorgiodifrancesco4590 And we could connect Capri, Positano and Amalfi with beautiful bridges and transform the area into a kind of Miami. There would also be a couple of mountains to plane, but at least we would stop being so lazy.

[@lilpaulettenthegang7869]

Wow! Your brother looks like my little brother. Your brother is cayute too! Some ppl think we are pr, dr or Brazilian. He is light like you guys but i am wayyy darker.

[@MartinaValla]

Oh no the sauce theft! I felt that lol.

[@nytn]

Hahahah, terrible

[@ernestoborserini7687]

someone had some good food for some time

[@JimmyTheGreek2000]

26:07 - The Parthenon is in Athens, Greece. The Pantheon is in Rome, Italy ! - It is very easy to confuse the two ancient monuments !

[@danilacld3448]

I'm Italian (resident in the north) and I laughed heartily the whole time at how bizarre we really are. Thank you! 😂

[@BoBo-ti6jh]

Very handsome brother.

[@chalinofalcone871]

Ummm.. do you guys know that Northern Italians consider Calabrians and Sicilians ... the "n word"? Then within THAT amongst Italy's mafias, the point of division is "mainlanders" versus... I forgot what they called Cosa Nostra, but Ndrangheta and Camorra allied in the 1920s in the US to attack the Sicilians based on the identification of the outsider being less Italian, or fake Italian. I learned the "racism" thing from a fellow volunteer at a homeless shelter in L.A. who was from Calabria and went to law school in Rome, but quit law to become a preschool teacher. The mafia thing I learned here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYC4dWSlpMpjeLM.. and, as I wrote this, I can give you some kinda speculative evidence as to the seriousness of these Identity Conflicts amongst Italians.. I was SHOCKED to realize the recent movie with Denzel Washington, Equalizer 3, seems to suggest that an alliance of MAINLAND mafias have taken over Cosa Nostra and are using it to do business with Islamic terrorists and deflect HEAT from the "men behind the curtain", of the Ndangheta and Camorra. But I assume whoever wrote that movie did so in an "art imitates life" kinda fashion, as opposed to having a fantastic and abounding imagination, with the capacity to bring the impossible to the realm of ever so slightly plausible. What she described reminded me of the Union versus the Confederacy kinda reversed, as well as, as violent as the Anglican towards the Anglosphere. Exemplified in the first official rugby game between Britain and Australia. Equalizer 3 is worth watching just for the scenery! Such magnificent beauty and so many majestic views.

[@marcellocolona4980]

My father’s family is Sicilian and they are a mixture of everyone who conquered and overran the island since the days of the Romans. The northern Italians have a saying that “Africa begins south of Rome.”

[@c.f.okonta8815]

Sicilians have some North African ancestry too

[@marcellocolona4980]

@@c.f.okonta8815 That’s definitely true. My DNA came back with over 30% North African and sub-Saharan African. We have African blood on the Mexican side from slave ancestors. My sisters have typical 4C hair and growing up used all black hair care products. That was in the 60s and they loved wearing Afros, which looked really good on them.

[@thepartyrodigo9228]

@@c.f.okonta8815yes but blk North Africans though

[@corderomiles3769]

With the word cala (cara means black or dark) im not surprised them being called n words

[@sabrinapilia2539]

I am Sardinian and I also can't understand people from Sicily or Naples if they speak dialect, and I am Italian 😊

[@nytn]

I want to go to Sardinia soooo badly!

[@sabrinapilia2539]

You should come. It is a very beautiful island

[@reneefoster361]

Your brother is making me laugh out loud literally...

[@nytn]

😅😅 he’s so great

[@leonoranorman8273]

Assisi is in theUmbrian part of Italy…. Home of beloved saints Francis and Clare . Very rustic and old. Remember these saints are from the 1100/1200s

[@johnnyearp52]

Some funny stories! The people who most wanted to change left, maybe?

[@michaelrochester48]

In Sicily, each region has its own dialect and slang for their words. There is at least 20 different ways to say chicken in Sicily. Agrigento is where most of my Italian family is from and it is very interesting learning about my heritage there.

[@donsab-xz4so]

Not dialects. Regional languages. The "Italian" language was actually the regional language of Tuscany. The other regional languages are not dialects of Tuscan.

[@Buv82]

A few quick takeaways...in regards to Italy being poor: while there is an immense socioeconomic disparity between north and south it remains a G7 country, as far as crime is concerned the amount of theft and fraud committed in the north inordinately dwarfs that which is committed in the south and lastly if you are the rightful beneficiaries of an estate in Italy there are law firms in the US that can assist you

[@muddyhotdog4103]

I dunno, organized crime is a lot more fluent in southern Italy vs the north. Pretty much all crime is more prevalent in the southern region imo

[@Buv82]

@@muddyhotdog4103 Are you implying crime and fraud are only committed by organized crime?! Look up Monti Dei Paschi Di Siena and get back to me...

[@chalinofalcone871]

""I am a star traveling together with you," the initiate confesses in the Mithraic liturgy." [Psyche and Symbol , Carl Jung, 1958, Part 2, Ch. 6-Two Chapters from: The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche; Sec. III. Forerunners of the Idea of Synchronicity, p. 253] "In the name of Light, who are you?" [The Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff, 1954]