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@user-ii4zf5iq3t

5 ай бұрын

The Italians that came to America in the early 1900's left the Italian death, Destruction, Volcanos, Earthquakes and were glad to be in America. They adopted America and what it had to offer. My husband's father was one of those families. He prospered, was happy. When my future husband took me home to meet his parents he said when they ask you your ancestry, say, "Soy Amerigano". They loved America. Probably even more glad they weren't living in Italy during WW2.

@user-ii4zf5iq3t

5 ай бұрын

Back in those days, you would find signs taped to doors saying: "Irish Need Not Apply here", "No Irish".

@user-ii4zf5iq3t

5 ай бұрын

My son is seeking an Italian citizenship. His Great Grandfather never naturalized as a USA citizen. The family was from Cefalù. I have ancestors that were artists & musicians for the Dogé of Venice. It's up in the air as to where they were from before that, migrations, but King Henry VIII brought them to England as court musicians. The Bassano's. Supposedly I am a direct descendent of William Shakespeare's brother.

@daranel4373

5 ай бұрын

Check Black's Law directory 4th edition "Free white people " definition.

@goofygrandlouis6296

4 ай бұрын

What I think is that you don't need to be insecure about your origin story. lol, your features are soooooooooooo Italian. If you came to Europe, everybody else would think you're from Italy. 100% guaranted. I think it would take my brain 0.2sec max, to pinpoint where you ancestors were from. 😅

Fascinating discussion! I went to Italy with my Italian American friend, and he was clearly disoriented by Italy. He's a New Jersey Italian American, so lots of ethnic pride, maybe even a little swagger about being "Italian." I suppose he might have expected instant resonance and a confirmation of some root identity. But that's not what he got. For one, I think the Italians were more fascinated by me, a black American, as a true exotic (as American as can be, but BLACK!)-this was 30 years ago-and for another, I sensed they were standing on caste as Europeans first and foremost. Americans in general had no comparable standing in culture or sophistication, and Italian Americans less so. And I learned from another Italian friend why that was: the Italians who emigrated to America generations back were typically southerners-Sicilians, Neapolitans, Calabrians. The prejudice against them from northern Italians was (and I'm told still is) quite pronounced and blatant. One friend told me her Italian American parents made an unpopular marriage because the father was Sicilian and the mother was from a proper northern family. I think many ethnic white Americans who go back to the old country hoping for a kind of spiritual reset or cultural affirmation run into this same disillusionment: Quite frankly, the countries they derived from couldn't care less. I've heard the same from Irish American friends about Ireland, German American friends going to Germany, Swedish American friends, etc. There are KZread channels charting the shock of thwarted African Americans who relocate to African countries. I suppose the moral is, nothing will teach us how American we really are except leaving home. What's funny about this is, to the people of all those places we go in search of roots, they don't see us by the divisions we elevate among ourselves. We really do all look alike to them, after a fashion-all American, both wildly naive and overconfident, as ignorant about who we really are as we are about where our forebears originally came from.

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

this was just so so interesting to read, thank you for taking the time to share. I laughed out loud at the beginning! You are so right, nothing makes me feel more American than when I am abroad.

@elleanna5869

7 ай бұрын

This is absolutely the right thing to understand. I say it like a Nigerian that 9 times out of 10 disappoints black Americans. Your heritage is fully western and American you got a sparkle of Africa as well other US people have sparkles of Asia Europe or whatever but you *shine* American! What's the point in hating among yourselves and using other nations and continents culture as a tool to divide and fight into US society? This just fuels misunderstanding, baseless hatred and ignorance. In the US , politicians should decrease or even better try to stop using ethnicity or "race" rants as political weapons. It already backfired badly (as Europe and Africa history with their own tribal divisions teaches). You won't find "validation" or identity in dna tests or in fake myths , while you will find solace and useful insights in *actual* history even if it's complicated and often unpleasant. With my black Americans friends it usually ends in frustration when I just say "no bro, Africa was not a perpetual party unless the yts came and spoiled it and no, you won't fit wherever you go and own the whole continent because of your melanin alone" Btw , about South and North beef in Italy , I guess it's the only country where a Northern shouts "Africa!" to mock/provoke a Southern - being both white, or at least I didn't meet this so commomly elsewhere. The moment this happened , I turned my head thinking it was for me and both the guys (one Northern and one Southern) both shake their heads and with quick / sharp hand gesture "say" to me "no it's about us nevermind" 🤣🤣🤣

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

I think you’re the one who needs to start making videos. This was riveting, hilarious and really the truth. I love how you said “sparkle”.

@elleanna5869

7 ай бұрын

@@nytn thank you so much 😁but I'd never be so soothing yet compelling and effective as you are ☺️ I really appreciate your work , I feel the amount of good will, patience, respect and honesty you put in it. It's a relief to find people like you offering high quality contents in US socials , overall I found discouraging the state of US education system. Too submissive of socio-political trends and agendas, things get easily torbid . Not being rude, believe me, I am just concerned because US have a world wide influence and dismissing culture always brings troubles. Btw, I am hopeful ❤️ and also def have a strong positive bias towards Italy and especially South Italy😉 never faced discrimination , met great teachers and people, and experienced epic Sicilian hospitality ❤️ ngl, I am a lucky migrant, skilled and educated enough to fit - not rich at all but with a job. This matters tremendously . But beyond my own lucky experience, I think Italy is a must when it comes to culture and understanding humanity. By fate and geology, it 's at the crossroads of the world , East/West, North/South and in the ancestral meltin pot,the Mediterranean . It's a mini continent for natural and culture diversity and its history tells a lot about human patterns, both misery and grandeur... Highly recommended for every "Explorer"☺️.And today Italy is... Surprising , puzzling and fascinating in many ways. Btw the only video I should do probably is about the Roman Empire trend and my Italian friends reactions , their "wtf???" faces are priceless 🤣🤣🤣

@dominicbriganti5710

7 ай бұрын

Great response !!

As an American of Italian descent, I can say that Professor Coniglio's explanation is very consistent with the stories I heard from my Italian grandparents, who arrived in the 1910's. I always had the feeling that Italian culture moved on from the period of the Italian diaspora, whereas the American concept of what it means to be Italian was frozen. Very interesting video.

@immigrantsagainstimmigrati2557

7 ай бұрын

It is normal! That what happens to every immigrant. They always think that their place of origin haven’t changed.

@jo100

4 ай бұрын

My Grandparents Immigrated To America 🇺🇸 From Uganda 🇺🇬 in 1910

@lulumoon6942

3 ай бұрын

Very enlightening to be sure.

@daviddauza

3 ай бұрын

Prior to telecommunication technology of mid-20th century, it would have been difficult for immigrants to keep aware of changes in culture & language of their home country. And are conservative in their attempt to maintain language, culture & self-identity. Certainly this is what happened with Acadian/Cajun community in French Louisiana. In isolation from current metropolitan France, Acadian/Cajun language remained static to the early 1600's France. Acadian/Cajun culture developed in isolation in southwest Louisiana since their arrival in late 1700's when Louisiana was a Spanish colony, and incorporated some culture from Andalusian & Islenos immigrants that arrived at the same time.

@JK-vc7ie

Ай бұрын

I think that is spot on.

A little random anecdote from a Sicilian person born and raised in Sicily: there is this story, in my family, of a cousin with myopia who couldn't afford glasses. Having emigrated to America, she finally managed to buy some and was so enthusiastic about them that she started sending them as gifts to her relatives who remained in Sicily!

@beaujac311

7 ай бұрын

That's beautiful. I know what it is like not being able to read the blackboard at school. I'm a 61 year old man from the US. I got my first pair of glasses in the third grade, which was the early 1970's. Back then glasses were very expensive. When I say expensive I mean what I now pay for a pair of glasses is probably what my parents paid for my first pair over fifty years ago. I glasses I have on now cost me 60 dollars. With the advent of the internet the prices of a lot of things went way down. Thirty years ago I was paying $200 dollars for a pair of glasses because the frames were so expensive. And the ones I bought then were on the low end of the price scale. I can say that the internet has had some positive effects. But still that was a great story of her sending her family members glasses because she knew how much having them meant to her.

@rroadmap

7 ай бұрын

@@beaujac311 Yes, I just bought my 12-year-old grandson another pair through the internet for $100. I have to pay a little more to get comfortable ones that he will wear. It's his 3rd pair since school started. The rowdy dogs knocked the first pair off his desk at home and he accidentally stepped on them. A kid in P.E. kicked a ball and hit him in the head breaking the glasses, while he was sitting on the sidelines. I sure don't want to be buying expensive ones if they're going to get broken this often! But like you said, he can't see the board without them!

@beaujac311

7 ай бұрын

@@rroadmap Ha ha ha. I was kind of of rough on glasses myself as a kid. I played football baseball basketball and they were always getting knocked off my face.

@johnaloe6442

5 ай бұрын

In the states, unlike Australia, if Italians did not speak English in public, they were heavily discriminated against, this is the reason why few Italian Americans no longer speak Italian. It had nothing to do with Italians wanting to forget their italian language and heritage and integrating. They were just victims of the forced discriminatory integration process.period. This is why italo americans to this day are very proud of their italian heritage and to this very day continue to consider themselves Italian even though they were not born in Italy and speak little Italian. Italian Americans understand this as do I as an Italian Australian, even though some (and not all) north or northern italians don't. But then just as their is discrimination amongst Italian's on the basis of whether they are from the south, there is an equal and opposite if not greater discrimination by southerners against northener's who are considered not descendants of goths and lombards as very few of them invaded and eventually assimilated, but descendant's of Austrian's and French who ruled Northern italy in the late 17th, 18th and 19th century. To put it simply they are not considered and are not Italians, hence the fair complexion of some but not all northern Italians. Because of WASP policies that were in place in America at the time southern italians were forced to relinquish their italian heritage and in particular their language. But then the WASP'S at the end were also virtually wiped out, I suugest you read the 'Dying American', which details how Americas diverse ethnic groups bought an end to the predominant WASP culture/stereotype. I hail the Italian Americans who despite the discrimination and injustice have become very successful in America and retained and are proud of their Italian origins and to this day continue to consider themselves Italian, notwithstanding what northern Italians think. Now that they are successful and not in a state of poverty as they were when they migrated to America, they should all return to Italy and put the Italian born Italians in their place and make Italy a more just productive and affluent country.

@giulsa

5 ай бұрын

@@johnaloe6442 I'm not really sure what the point is. I only know that sometimes we should let those who experience the facts first hand speak, and not those who live thousands of kilometers away. Just as I, as an Italian, keep quiet and listen when people talk about the problems of Italian-Americans (or Italian-Australians) so those who have never set foot in Italy or experienced life in Italy should have the humility to know that they don't know much. In this case I speak because, as a Sicilian, I know very well that there is no discrimination of southerners against certain northern Italians "because they do not derive from the Goths and Lombards (I sincerely hope that all this is just a big mistake of understanding on my part). The Sicilians and, in general, the southern Italians, never cared much about the origins of the Lombards and Piedmontese, they were too busy not to be colonized by the "civilized" north. Rather it are the northern Italians who historically "hate" southern Italy for its Mediterranean origins (even today you can hear some elderly people insulting us because we are "arabs") and its diversity which is often confused with backwardness.

Thanks for a very informative and interesting video. I’m a typical Italian-American whose grandparents came from southern Italy. My grandparents were determined to assimilate and didn’t speak Italian at home and wanted their children to speak only English. The only part of their culture that they maintained was the food. I married a woman who was born in Italy but grew up in the USA. Her parents spoke Italian at home and maintained close ties to their families in Italy. In many ways they never assimilated. I learned about Italian culture from my in-laws and I learned how most Italian-Americans, including myself, know practically nothing about Italian language, history, and culture. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting my wife’s relatives in Italy and spending time with them in their homes. It’s given me a completely different perspective than you can get as a tourist. I’m also learning Italian as a way to connect with my roots. I’m somewhat embarrassed by my fellow Italian-Americans who proudly proclaim that they are Italian when they are often so ignorant about Italy.

@dontlaughtoomuch11

6 ай бұрын

Your grandparents were not smart in that case! The key is to "INTEGRATE" and never "ASSIMILATE". Integration entails, you remain language, culture, pride of heritage and ties to the country of your ancestors, assimilation does the exact opposite. They also deprive their children of access to their ancestral nation by not speaking their language.

@spideraxis

6 ай бұрын

Well said. Look how many can't pronounce their names correctly.

@dontlaughtoomuch11

6 ай бұрын

@@spideraxis Exactly, integration involves you adapt to the country where you are living, while you can still maintain your identity. Assmilation is such a poor way of trying to cowtow to the country that hosts you, because deep down you know (especially from a different region) they will never accept "your kind". (As rightwing crazy as it sounds)

@spideraxis

6 ай бұрын

@@dontlaughtoomuch11 I agree, but please don't equate your statement with "right wing craziness". There is a clear difference between that and wanting people to assimilate. One can both adapt, assimilate and retain ethnic identity. I am a solid right winger and live in an overwhelmingly Italian-American community. With the exception of the food, people here are totally assimilated into American society. We celebrate Columbus Day and the Fourth of July. It is the lunatic left that maligns anyone or anything that doesn't fit its narrative. Such as portraying a proud Italian-American as racist while a proud Dominican has every right to be so.

@dontlaughtoomuch11

6 ай бұрын

@@spideraxis Sorry, but the semantic definition of assimilation: Losing entire identity while trying to fit in a new group. Integration is the middle road, you adjust to a new situation accept the conditions of living while still maintaining an identity.

Love this! I have my Italian citizenship through my grandfather and this spring I reconnected with Italian cousins in my grandmother's little village in Basilicata. It was a home coming! I now live in Italy part-time and feels like coming full circle.

When he said that he never found an Italian in New York whose family was from north of Rome, I felt that because I AM a 2nd generation Italian-American whose family came from northern Italy, and like he said, I never find people with family from the north like me. It makes me a little sad that I can't speak in Italian with Italian-Americans in New York because either they can't speak Italian at all or they speak in a dialect from a different region that I don't really understand.

Wow thank you all for this video and conversation! I’m a Black American and I learned so much about Italian and Italian American Culture. I didn’t know that an Italian invented Bank of America and the telephone. Lots of people from other parts of the world may not understand why people somewhat forsook their culture from their homelands after arriving in America. This video is correct, we had to assimilate into to America for survival. Either we lost money or were killed if we weren’t like the Culture of America 😔.

@spideraxis

6 ай бұрын

Very well written. I admire your openness and willingness to learn.

@marioarguello6989

6 ай бұрын

Selling your soul for money is nothing to to be proud of

@petersclafani4370

6 ай бұрын

Dont forget Fermi. Italians go back to great cultures etruscans, romans. Italians were also known very well they created the Renaissance. Michaelangelo. De vinci.

@jameswilliams3241

6 ай бұрын

Marconi and the radio mustn't be forgotten.

@mjivory410

5 ай бұрын

​@@petersclafani4370One of the reasons that Enrico Fermi emigrated to the USA during the fascist/Mussolini period was because his wife was Jewish:::: __look it up__😮😢😮

From Italy, near Milan. I agree with the Professor that you would enjoy reading some Italian and specifically Sicilian history, going back to Ancient Roman and Greek times, but also the Renaissance period, when the Dukes of Milan were richer than the Kings of England (as witnessed for example by Shakespeare, who spoke of "the fashions of proud Italy"). Modern Italian history is more controversial, but in the last two hundred years, despite many mistakes e.g. World War II, Italy has progressed from being a collection of mostly poor regional states to its present status as one of the G7 powers and certainly the leading Mediterranean country, if we exclude France, which is only partly Mediterranean.

The wealth of information that Professor Luca shared here is its own whole new series. When he spoke of the Italian-American "culture" being more Southern Italian than any other region of Italy I was so intrigued. It made me want to study Italian immigration and the reasons for it. An additional interview with him would definitely be a great idea. Thank you, Danielle, so very much for another wonderful video. ❤ P.S. I LOVED the Sopranos and felt a little hurt hearing about how the series is viewed in Italy, but I totally understand.😉

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

lol! I have yet to see the sopranos because I can’t handle violence at all, but I bet I would get a real kick out of the characters

@giorgiodifrancesco4590

7 ай бұрын

If you look to wikipedia in English and then in Italian you can see that the data are very different. The English page seems to suggest that emigration occurred from the South and then from the North East of Italy. If you look, however, at the data published on the Italian page you can clearly see that this is not the case and that the North West was also affected. From 1876 to 1900, Piedmont (North West) had many more emigrants than Sicily: 709,000 against 226,000. Some may think: but after that it was no longer like that. Indeed, but the initial gap has not been filled: 831,000 against 1,126,000. So, forget about the English wiki and go and translate the one into Italian. It's important not to listen to those who promote whining (like: the South was colonized and southerners were pushed to emigrate by northerners...that's bullshit). Italians emigrated from both the North and the South. They emigrated for the same reasons: 1) rural poverty; 2) desire to try individual luck (too little is said about this fact). The fact that the Sicilians almost all went to the States, while the Venetians almost all went to Brazil, while the Piedmontese went to France and Argentina, derives from the fact that each group of people went where the first adventurers of their area they went, that is, he went to the place of which there was mythical news in his area of origin.

@stackered

4 ай бұрын

​@nytn it's considered the best show ever and is about a lot more than violence. It's actually a genuinely hilarious dark comedy, as an NJ Italian I love it

@strikedn

3 ай бұрын

Emigration was also massive from the North East which was as poor as the South. Veneto (in the North East) was the region with the highest number of emigrants between 1876-1900 . Never understood why there's this idea that emigration only came from the South. If you check the real data you'd be shocked.

@franz9573

2 ай бұрын

@@strikedn Because especially in the USA it was mainly southern Italians who emigrated (80%) and then people think this applied to all Italians, but this is not the case. 25 million Italians emigrated between 1870-1970. And in 1st place is Veneto ( towards Brazil). Until 1960, Veneto was one of the poorest regions in Italy - today it is one of the richest after Lombardy. California is the only state in the USA with a majority of northern Italian emigrants compared to southern Italian immigrants. Especially from Liguria, Piedmont and Trentino. Many winemakers in California have Piedmontese and Trentino roots. (especially San Francisco area and Napa Valley.)

I confirm what professor Luca Coniglio said. I am from Veneto and the Venetians who emigrated almost all went to Brazil. Many of them in the southern states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. In Brazil the Talian language is recognized which in reality is not Italian but originates from the fusion of the dialects of northern Italy with the predominant component of the Venetian language. Venetians can speak easily with Italian-Brazilians by speaking the Venetian language and them Talian language. I remember when I was a child, letters from Brazil occasionally arrived at home from people with the same surname who were trying to find their origins.

@lucianomezzetta4332

7 ай бұрын

"Almost all!? No, signore I meet many from the Veneto when I lived in San Francisco.

@TheIronweed-vx5lg

6 ай бұрын

Can you explain why most northerners decided on South America in general? Was it them knowing that the U.S and Canada were receiving immigrants from the south and therefore avoided North America? Thanks.

@user-qu6ys2im2c

6 ай бұрын

@@lucianomezzetta4332 Obviously not everyone went to Brazil. But many do. Especially if we talk about the period after the union with Italy. Even today we witness emigration, but It is different. They are often young people with university education. I also have relatives in the USA. My aunt married an American soldier.

@user-qu6ys2im2c

6 ай бұрын

@@TheIronweed-vx5lg I honestly never asked myself why. I did a quick search and found this on Wikipedia. it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emigrazione_veneta

@sicilianknicca_mickygreeneyes

5 ай бұрын

how well is intelligibility with the venetian mexican colony

What Italians think about Italian Americans isn't any different from what other groups of immigrants to America think about each other. That include Mexicans vs Mexican Americans, or Japanese vs Japanese Americans, or Nigerians vs Nigerian Americans, or Somalians vs Somalian Americans, or Thais vs Thai Americans, or Chinese vs Chinese Americans, or Koreans vs Korean Americans. There are cultural changes which results from Acculturation when different cultures take on a unique culture which is not totally one culture, but a diversified one..

@chuckhiggins4940

7 ай бұрын

Americans with ancestors from Europe are far more disconnected than those with Asian and African ancestry. Especially when it comes to Nigerians, Chinese, Somalis etc. There are a TON of ABC (American born Chinese) working in China right now whose ancestry opened doors for them, and Nigerians still look at Nigerian Americans as Nigerian, just more westernized. And Somalis claim ALL their people, just like Jews do lol.

@etruscancivilization

7 ай бұрын

@@chuckhiggins4940 That was an Excellent point you just made here. I also think that the reasons for most Americans with European ancestry being LESS connected is because they are MANY Generations distant from their Europa close family members, whereas many Somalians, Nigerians, and Chinese Americans still have close family ties with relatives back in their homeland. Sort of like OLD Arrivals vs NEWEST Arrivals to the USA...✔

@axrpad1228

6 ай бұрын

As a Mexican American living in Mexico, a lot of mexicans here don’t actually think of US Born mexicans as “mexicans” and just think of them as Americans or Chicanos, what I notice is that americans are so focused on race and here in Mexico, if you are born in or lived in the country, you are mexican regardless of race.

@charleswhite758

5 ай бұрын

Don't forget English vs English Americans. Do people not think that same dynamic does not apply to the "founding nation" too? It does! English Americans are foreigners in England almost as much as in Timbuktu

@reucat24

5 ай бұрын

Puerto Ricans vs NewYorkRicans

I knew about 100% of everything he talked about. I did a ton of research while I was learning Italian. Plus my Italian friends would tell me about their culture.

Fantastic interview. My family on my mother’s side are Argentines of Northern Italian descent. I didn’t know too much of the Italian diaspora until I started watching your videos.

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

Wonderful! We are learning together:)

This was a very enlightening segment...it has really opened my eyes❤

Another great interview❗️A home run 🏟️Thanks for sharing your thoughts and these stories with us

You should do an episode about Italian migrations to Latin American countries like Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, ect and how the Italian cultures influenced parts of Latin American culture.

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

great idea!

Very interesting video! Thx!

As an 2nd generation (NY State) American of Italian origins currently living in Southern Italy (Guardia Sanframondi, Benevento, Campania), I found this fascinating. Thank you!

This was a very good discussion. Thankyou for it.

Your videos are giving me LIFE! Thank you for this- I'm learning so much.

@nytn

3 ай бұрын

You might really like the videos with my brothers.😅

Fascinating interview I learned so much.

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

I did too!

Love the synths in the background

You really knocked it out of the park with this video, Danielle! Incredible. ❤❤❤❤❤

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! I had an amazing time talking with Prof. Luca, he's so passionate and it's contagious

I'm on vacation sitting here surfing KZread, and I'm offered your video. Danielle, what a wonderful video you made! I am not Italian-American, but I love Italy. I learned a lot from your video with Prof. Luca! Thank you.

This is an awesome conversation.. extremely interesting

I'm just getting to watch this. How very interesting!! I learned so much. Thank you and the professor for the great information!!

I’m Canadian Italian. My parents came in 1964 from Abruzzo. I find this fascinating and pretty accurate. The food thing is definitely bang on. I just discovered your channel. I can’t wait to keep following it. Thank you.

Great interview.

Absolutely wonderful and informative! As one who has successfully gone through the process, I would like to clarify that recognition of Italian citizenship ( de jure sanguinis) for those of Italian ancestry is not as easy as Professor Conglio indicates, at least not in the USA. Depending on how complicated your case may be, the process could require many legal documents from both Italy and the USA. American documents must all be in the “long form” and have no discrepancies. These documents must be translated into Italian by an official translator approved by the consulate . American documents presented to the Italian consulate must be officially notarized by the office of the secretary of state where the documents originate. At this time, due to many requests, and limited personnel at the consulates. there can sometimes be a waiting period of one or two years for the initial appointment just to investigate the possibility of eligibility . This is not to discourage anyone interested, but as we all know, navigating the Italian bureaucracy is no easy task. The whole process can take as long as three or four years or even longer for final recognition of Italian citizenship . However, if interested, go for it! In bocca al lupo! (Good luck!) Viva l’Italia! 🇮🇹

Awesome vid!!

Incredible high level interviewing techniques exhibited by you Danielle!! He is definitely a fountain of Italian history and culture!

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

thank you, this made my day. All the props go to Professor Luca for his incredible wealth of knowledge and how brilliantly he is able to make it understood!

@joeystreets3606

7 ай бұрын

@nytn it's not easy to conduct a fluid interview go so smoothly. I have an eye for greatness

I could have listened to hours of this, and Professor Luca's advice at the end is spot on. I was lucky enough to find my relatives that live in a small village in Northern Italy a few years ago, they were so wonderful and accommodating. I also have Southern Italian blood but I haven't visited the village yet. I also just got approved for my Italian citizenship. Professor Luca is also right, it's fascinating to study the history. Americans are so used to our history, which is only a couple hundred years old, but Italian history goes back much much further and it's amazing to realize you are a part of it. Thanks for sharing this great interview!

There is a Garibaldi Meucci Museum on Staten Island (NY).

Awesome video, thanks to both of you.

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! I had such a fun time

@adelinadepiccoli1628

7 ай бұрын

@@nytn I also enjoy all the researches you post. Very open and honest. Are you interested to find if there are some distant relatives that still leave in Italy? I helped an American friend to trace down Her distant relatives that migrated from Tuscany in the early 1900 as a gift for her father. The small Town all came over to meet them, It was such a warming experience.

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

we do have family there. The paternal side, My grandfather had a house in southern italy from his father, and after my grandfather passed away he gave it to cousins. My brother went and stayed there a few years ago. I dont know these people though myself. Id love to go....@@adelinadepiccoli1628

@adelinadepiccoli1628

7 ай бұрын

Then I Wish you can make It there. You Will love It I am sure. Please continue you videos not only the ones about Italian heritage but all of your researches. I found particularly interesting also the ones about "passing" ❤️

Amazing story , keep them coming !!! 😊👍👍

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

Perhaps your best presentation to date. Broadly informative, as he sincerely offers some information that while not the most wonderful depiction of early Italian immigrants, is still offered sincerely without his becoming squeamish or feeling required to express unwarranted sense of shame. Extending considerable potential to better understand certain dynamics within Italian-American culture as it exists today. That said, what I found most intriguing was his comment - at about 9:05 - that many had left Italy because the Italian government, itself, 'wanted' them to leave. I’d be interested to learn more detail regarding their reason for this. Again, a Great presentation!

Great videos

Hi Danielle, my friend!!!!!! One of your best videos yet. Tons of info on Italy and Italian-American culture. Who knew??? You seemed very happy, similarly to your interview with your dad, which was another excellent video/interview. Thanks for the subtitles. Your videos have helped to educate me and change my life. In a world that is so tribal, I love your views about color. As you would say...(paraphrasing), If you want colors, look in a box of crayons. I totally agree. We are all different shades of the same race.........human of course. Keep up the great work!!!!! 🙏

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I hope to get Luca to do a part 2! Im so glad you are here on the channel with me

@kitty_s23456

7 ай бұрын

@@nytn yes to a Part 2 with Prof Luca! Thanks for this vid & thanks to Prof Luca! 💐

Very interesting information.🎉

This is such a good interview, and I think many people across cultures can identify with the idea that although they're a part of a diaspora of a certain ethnic group, there has been a lot of changes made in order to adapt to the environment in which their family/ancestors migrated to. This doesn't necessarily make them any "less" than, just different than their roots. Thank you for sharing. Edited to add, if you're so inclined, it would be interesting if you did a video looking at the Italian influence on San Francisco. I grew up in the Bay Area, initially in San Francisco before moving to another city in the area. Anyhow, growing up in San Francisco I learned a lot about the contributions of Italian immigrants to the city of San Francisco, including the opening of Bank of America. There's a lot of interesting Italian-American history in San Francisco.

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

I love this idea! And thank you :)

Excellent video! Although I am not Italian by ancestry, one of my cousins (one generation removed) is married to an Italian woman. Interesting how specific the migration was from different parts of Italy to certain destinations in the Americas. Keep these educational and interesting videos coming. Given the times we live in, the more we learn about other cultures and ethnicities, the better.

@Flametree1492

7 ай бұрын

I found the migration pattern interesting, northern Italians went to South America and southern Italians came to North America.

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

me too!

Some time ago I found a book online that contrasted Italian immigration to the USA and Argentina. If I can find it again, I will post the title for you.

@dianebuxo4335

7 ай бұрын

Yes, I believe Pope Francis is Argentinian and of Italian heritage.

My parents got me Italian citizenship as a child. It was easy. They raised me both Italian and English!

I remember when I was a student studying in Rome and one of my classmates who the time American always talking about how Italian she was unfortunately, I have to be around when an Italian told her is that you are not Italian you know very little about our language or culture in our customs and that you are an American with Italian ancestry but you're not Italian. I felt sorry for her because he took the air out of her bubble. But I've also had to experience with some African Americans to go to Africa and learn that they are not really African but people of African descent because they're not a member of any particular tribe or group that govern to the societies for the most part still! We really should not fool ourselves into thinking that we are part of societies that we have been long separated from and only have a wisp those cultures exist in our everyday lives.

@lucianomezzetta4332

7 ай бұрын

It would help a lot if you could write in the English language.

@hopeintruth5119

7 ай бұрын

I mean African Americans refer to usually an ethnic group of people who ancestors were enslaved from all over the coast of Africa and landed in U.S.A. they had a few dead languages but they had dances, customs, and even good and hair style. African American know they aren't African but it's yo remember where they came from. And a name for their group they share culture and custom and history with. Hence an ethnic group of their own

@bernardtaylor8975

6 ай бұрын

@@lucianomezzetta4332 it would help if you appreciate the f****** message, and not be so goddamn concerned about the grammar and the punctuation because Voice to Text does not always punctuated correctly and has been known to change things once individual has sent them. Please, try not be an a******!

@bernardtaylor8975

6 ай бұрын

@@hopeintruth5119 unfortunately, you're not accurate because I served with a few African-Americans who were disappointed in Africa because they wanted to identify as Africans when they were not! Much respect.

@hopeintruth5119

6 ай бұрын

@@bernardtaylor8975 factually you are wrong, black Americans/ African Americans or whatever term usually refer to black people in America that are descended from enslaved Africans or have generations there. They are there own ethnic group that get called many names. Stop and go read

It’s the same with every ethnicity we have to accept that we are Americans!

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

That's right! It is it's own unique, ever changing beautiful thing

@nemomarcus5784

7 ай бұрын

Americans are like Kool-aid. We have an ethnic flavor, but it isn't the same as an authentic flavor. A grape Kool-aid may have some grapey flavor, but it isn't the same as grape juice. Olive Garden may have an Italiany feel to it, but it isn't the same as authentic Italian cuisine in Italy. An Italian-American may have ancestry from 100 years ago, and some cultural remnants but are mainly similar to any hot dog and hamburger American.

@dominicbriganti5710

7 ай бұрын

It's long overdue. Please stop referring to yourselves as Italian Americans. It's not what your folks wanted.

@dominicbriganti5710

7 ай бұрын

@@nytn It's time for you guys to assimilate into mainstream american culture and drop the hyphenated identities.

@eangelini01

3 ай бұрын

What I find annoying is that my parents are from Italy and I was born in a VERY Italian community in a multinational city and I have Italian citizenship. Many Italians from Italy, not all luckily, have an issue with me. I also speak it, but unfortunately I’m out of practice because there are very few italian speakers where I currently live. My issue is that I don’t like being defined or categorized by an Italian living in Italy or anyone for that matter. It’s condescending to me. Now I just say I’m transnational…but I know who I am. That’s all that matters to me.

This was a fascinating conversation. It was provocative in that it distinguished the cultural nuances that exist between mainland Italians and those that have settled in the diaspora. The rabbit hole goes even further if you’re willing to explore Italian Canadians the way they have settled in French Canada in Quebec, as well as in Toronto and all the way in western Canada. They too began their migration after the unification. Like many Italian Americans, they came through New York and in Halifax Canada. From these drop off points, they migrated west into more established cities such as Montreal, Toronto and of course Vancouver. Fun fact, Italians were instrumental in building the Toronto subway system from the inception as construction workers. Today, they hold high executive positions in delivering service to millions of people in Toronto. You’re certainly doing an amazing job with showing the history. 👍

Fascinating discussion indeed, I had no idea about so many things regarding Italian American culture. A real eye opener...thanks for sharing

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

So glad!

Bella intervista con questo giovane professore italiano. Brava , divulghi cose utili..

My father and his family moved to Canada around the 1960s. They all gave up their citizenship before the new laws came in place. I learned that my grandparents left southern Italy because of no job opportunities, and the threat of the mafia in their small villages they were from. My grandparents and grand aunt and uncle are still appalled and against me considering moving to Italy for a couple of years. Even when I told them my reasons why, they said they left for a reason. Why leave Canada? This is really sad and learning from this video? This helps me further understand not only their perspectives, but current Italians as well. I still wish I can live there for a couple of years to experience Italian culture further.

@dominicbriganti5710

7 ай бұрын

Listen to your grandparents.

@dominicbriganti5710

7 ай бұрын

What town are you from? You won't get auto citizenship and it's all mafia there now.

@terrima4064

7 ай бұрын

You should definitely go and experience life there, The world is very big and if you hold a US passport, you should definitely take advantage of it. I grew up and lived in NYC from 1980-2020. In Feb 2020, my husband and I moved to Taiwan and we've been living here since- one of the best decisions I made in my life! I hope your wish to live in Italy will come true in the future!

@kitty_s23456

7 ай бұрын

@clarity - I think it would be good if you could stay in Italy and experience life there, not as a tourist but something more long term. BUT you'll have to look into the logistics of it - do you have a job or business which will allow you to WFH/ anywhere in the world? If yes, then good for you. ☺️ If you intend to seek employment there, I've seen several docus saying that job opportunities are scarce and many young Italians are leaving their country to seek employment abroad - so that's something to consider. Also think of visa issues - I think an American or Canadian can only stay in the EU for 90 days within a 180-day period? (I may be wrong). If you want dual citizenship (Italian), then you'll have to do the paperwork too. I think Italy allows citizenship by descent, up to the grandparents level (if grandparents were citizens). Good luck in your future plans.

@hirsch4155

6 ай бұрын

Do it. My parents came from a different country in Europe and even though I was born in Canada I went to live there for a couple years (ended up saying 4). You won’t regret it, in fact I’m even thinking of doing it again.

Amaizing conversations

My grandmothers family came from Bari and grandpa Sciacca, Sicily. This video was awesome, thanks for this, would love more of this content as an Italian American who has studied the history of Sicily deeply. We just love to connect to our roots here!

This was a fantastic, informative as well as an encouraging conversation. Luca has no problem with his English or being understood. I hope you start learning Italian and go to your family's town of origin maybe get your citizenship. He's right on about going to small villages or to regions that are less tourist heavy. Watch as many Italian language films as you can too. I'm going to check out some more of your videos. Grazie e Buona fortuna

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I have more videos planned on this as I keep learning🥰

I’m From the Dominican Republic. I took an ancestry test, and it showed that I’m 19% Italian and it says I have relatives that lived in the apulia region of Italy. I also have distant Italian cousins who live in New Jersey and Long Island. I never met my paternal grand father, but I believe he was predominantly Italian. My father doesn’t even know that he is literally half Italian.

@dangercat9188

6 ай бұрын

Yea, my mom is Dominican and I ended up having 7% Italian, especially from lazio.

@nicoparise-jc5fs

6 ай бұрын

A lot of Latino people are. Latinos are Italians, we not white. I got nothing but facts behind that.

@nugolderp4115

6 ай бұрын

If your percentage is less than 80% you can't even say you're in part italian

@MW_Asura

5 ай бұрын

@@nugolderp4115 Hell, if they don't speak the language or don't have dual citizenship they can't even say they're "part Italian"

@sicilianknicca_mickygreeneyes

5 ай бұрын

i disagree in ancient rome adoption was huge and was essential for warfaring expanionistic states as such many romans were not italic at all or were partial just like throughout history where various immigrant groups moved in and more or less italicized themselves to some extenxt not even the abereshe or molise croats were not influenced byt the greater italian zietgiest of historical events not the zingaros not the jews nor the muslims as such like my man baby gang if u were born and raised in italy u is italian sangue or niente by contrast if u are born in the diaspora full gentetic fbi or mixed and you appreciate and remember many of the traditions of italy or grew up in an ethnic ghetto that still recieves new immigrants then u are italian also if not of a different flavour and nevermind the identity of coriscans maltesians and nicard or dalamatians who are latinized for millenia@@nugolderp4115

This is a jewel of cultural information, big thank you to you both :)

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Daniella, I just found your channel and subscribed. Thank you so much for this!! my grandparents (on my mom’s side) and my great grandparents (on my father side) all immigrated to America during the years between 1890 and 1906. My family comes from Caserta and a small village just a few miles outside of Pompeii called Scafati. This was such a terrific video, grazie mille Proffessore De Luca.

@italico3222

16 күн бұрын

Scafati is the province of Salerno, it is not a small village or city

Very interesting conversation. I’ve recently started on some Italian courses. Later I’ll learn Sicilian. I know that the dialects are different between regions, so I’d like to pick up a bit from those places that my grandparents came from. I’m teaching my sons right now and perhaps one day we’ll visit the towns my family members were born in.

Extremely fascinating! I don’t have Italian heritage, but I am in love with Italian language and culture and have been there numerous times.

Hi. I have recently come across your channel. This was a very interesting video. I am part Sicilian (30%) but grew up in a very Sicilian house, neighborhood and community in northern NJ. Im a bit older than you (57). Living in GA now, there are so few Italian Americans compared to home and it's made me have such an appreciation for how I came up. Being not 100% Sicilian and bi racial as well, growing up in that environment was not always easy for me but, I was a pretty tough kid and respect was quickly achieved. lol It is what it is. lol Looking forward to viewing more of your vids. Ciao.

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

I do miss the NY experience, I live in Tennessee now and not many southern Italians here

Would love to see this type comparison for every nationality. Not Italian but thoroughly enjoyed this!

@nytn

5 ай бұрын

that’s a wonderful idea!

This was a gorgeous vid ❤️ as a history scholar (not Italian) I dare to add that European perspective about flags and being patriots is influenced by ww2 trauma. Nationalisms turned tribal and backfired so wildly, conflating with racism... that after the war rising s flag became kinda sus, especially in Italy and Germany , and overall in Europe - with the exception of countries considered "winners" and keeping their colonial influence for a longer time (UK and France). Nationalism got humbled in Europe. But it wasn't all bad, it's the same reason most people are umconfortable with all the "race" stuff. About Italy history...Well , just *whoa* An endless goldmine. South alone , Sicily alone - a lifetime probably isn't enough . Keep your good work and your personal journey ☺️❤️

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

Your comment just totally blew my mind re: the flags in Europe post WW2. I am going to write that down so I can poke around a bit later. Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts!

@elleanna5869

7 ай бұрын

@@nytn thank you for your vids and approach, you really raise the bar of learning and debating in the US social media, God knows how much it's needed lately. As your Italian guest stated, you -US- are the giant in the west , you personally add a maybe small but precious contribution to make this giant smarter and more educated Good deal for everyone ☺️ (p.s. still 15-20 yrs ago singing national anthems passionately during sport events was kinda "cringe" suspected of being right wing / fascist stuff in Italy and Germany, now it's different , more relaxed and people enjoy more their anthems)

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

I am really really interested in this idea. Video maybe? Thank you!

@riccardomallardo7779

5 ай бұрын

One more thing to add is that in America they don't make a distinction between state intended as an institution and nation, I lost count how many tines americans told me "Columbus wasn't italisn because italy didn't exist" In Europe we distinguish state and nation, the republic of Italy and the italian nation are two different things, the republic was born in 1946 but Italy already existed before, just like Russia existed way before 1991, Germany before 1990,France before 1789 and Croatia before 1995. France went from kingdom to republic, then it became an empire, then a monarchy again, then republic, empire and then finally republic again. Germany started as an empire, became a republic, then they got a totalitarian dictatorship, got split in two and now they're back with being a republic, and same gies for Spain, Russia, Sweden and pretty much every european country. What lesson do we europeans learn from this? That the flag, the constitution, the anthem and hell even the borders are all temporary, this is ehy we don't pay attention to them. America is different, instead of being a nation ruled by a state it's a state that artificially created a nation, what do an afroamerican, an italoamerican, an irish american and a WASP have in common? The laws they obey to, it's pretty much the only thing that keeps the american people together, this is also why I believe that america still has capital punishment, to them a law is much more than just a law, it's the core of national identity

Hi Danielle. First to all your hair is absolutely gorgeous. You are very beautiful too. Well, I adore your content. You covers a variety of topics

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!

Very interesting. Greetings from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹

He has some great points

The problem is that the vision that people have in the USA is of a stereotyped Italy from the beggining of the XX century that no longer exists. Italy is a modern country that doesn't like being depicted as a rural, mafia country. The idea of the Italian family gathered eating pasta under a wine tree, like they are depicted in the movies is also hated by modern Italians

@David-mz8xk

Ай бұрын

What part are you from?

@JK-vc7ie

Ай бұрын

That's it 100%. The images and ideas that many Italian Americans have in their head are not aligned with reality. That "place" that you imagine doesn't exist anymore if it ever did.

@David-mz8xk

Ай бұрын

How would you if given the choice want your country to be seen?

@xenani

Ай бұрын

@@David-mz8xk Sicily

@xenani

Ай бұрын

@@David-mz8xk a modern country just like any other one

I could listen to your very intelligent Guest, all day. I'm black mixed with Chinese, and therefore have no Italian bllod in me, but I've been to Italy probably 30 times for work and leisure. It is the most beautiful place in the world. The people are absolutely lovely. I've never ever experienced any discrimination on my travels there. I like to think that I'm one of Italy's adopted children.

Very interesting around 20-21 minutes in and its so true, that Italian American culture is really southern Italian American culture. My mom's side is largely southern Italian with one ancestor from the north and my dad is half northern Italian. But his mom migrated from Friuli to Toronto, and then my parents met in Buffalo. I grew up seeing my family in Canada, speaking Friulan dialect and carrying on Italian customs but it was with my mom's more Americanized family that I felt this very Italian feeling, perhaps due to the fact I was closer with them but also perhaps due to the "cultural warmth" so to speak of southern Italian culture.

Love the discussion. But what are those analog synths behind you ?

This one was great. I am really glad to hear another Italian's perspective (and a scholarly one). I'd like to ask you a couple of questions. Is there a way to contact you or send you an email?

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

Me or prof Luca? You can contact me at the about page and my e-mail is on there!

awesome interview !!!! my grandparents immigrated to new york in the early 1900's from Abruzzo A town called Casoli---My Aunt & Uncle were actually born there also -- my father and my other aunts & uncles were born in New York. I have been to italy , but not to Abruzzo " Casoli" Hopefully someday i will make it to the town my grandparents are from* I am definitely AMERICAN --Not Italian--but its nice to Have Italian roots !!---- Can't wait to visit Casoli !!!

Excellent piece. Thank you. I am always amazed at the similarities of experience in the US between Italian- and Jewish-Americans.

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

I still plan to do one on the Jewish experience

@elleanna5869

7 ай бұрын

A (Jewish )NYer once told me "Italians are just Jews with even better food" 😁 Idk how common this joke is but I also noticed that often Jewish actors played Italian roles and viceversa in US productions kinda "interchangeable". I think there are some valid intriguing reasons for this peculiar proximity, both in Europe and US history .

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

I’ll defend bagels on my honor

@chircoj1

Ай бұрын

It should go without saying that most Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Judean’s, and Israelites, many Greek and Aramaic speakers who migrated to Sicily and Roman Italy and took Roman wives who converted to Judaism. They then dispersed throughout central eastern Europe overtime.

This is interesting stuff.

Most of the Italian Americans I have known trace their ancestry back to Sicily, which is not typical of most of Italy. Most of the rest I have known trace their ancestry back to southern Italy or Naples, and this is very different from what I know of Italy, since I have only visited northern and central Italy. I would not expect most Italians (or any from northern and central Italy) to have an interest in Sicilian Americans.

Thank you again for your videos, always very important information, knowledge is king! Thank you for mentioning that the country of Italy is a very young country. I know that the "Italian" peninsula was made up of many smaller countries/provenances? You mentioned that many of southern European do not know alot about their history? I think that's so true for so many ethnicities. Now, I'm a New Yorker by birth, East Harlem, I have an "Italian" sur name, but it is also an Iberian name, I wondered for so long why this was. When I started DNA testing, I was inspired to study more, that's when I learned that the Spanish empire had conquered and controlled southern Italy and Sicily for over a hundred years? What do you know about that? Ive learned through my studies that my fathers people have roots in north America going back to 1620, i found a birth registration. I am native american from my mothers side so basically I'm an "American American"! But inspite of my history/ancestry anglos, and other European americans seem to think im a foreigner in my own land!

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

Hey to a fellow NYer :)

Would be nice if you did something on the people of Puerto Rico. There is a lot of Italian in their heritage but many don’t even know. I’m from PR but I have ancestors tied back to Genoa Italy. There are also many Puertoricans with many Italian names such as Pietri, Santini, Altierri, Raymundi, Brignoni, Filipi and a lot more. The governor of PR last name is Pierluisi.

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

Great idea, I have been working on and off with a script on PR

@kevinkelly1586

7 ай бұрын

Is the name Bacardi actually Italian? It looks more Italian than Spanish.

@ricardomarin6492

7 ай бұрын

There are people that are pure African, indigenous and European in PR, of course there is also the mixed Puertoricans but the history in PR didn’t cover much about a good portion in PR with Italian backgrounds, Jewish and other European backgrounds. History in the schools of PR related to back grounds was poor. History only attempted to create a nationality from PR with no background importance. I was always told that we had ties from Italy and I found by Grandfather birth certificate showing his origin from Genoa. My DNA showed the same. There are a lot of Italian last names on the island.

@ricardomarin6492

7 ай бұрын

Somehow is also learned that there was a mass migration from Sardinia, Sicily Corsica, Naples in the southern area of the island during the 19th century.

@renatomacchi2195

7 ай бұрын

@@kevinkelly1586 Be advised that most Spanish personal names are of Roman origin. The Romans colonized what is now Spain and Portugal called by them "HISPANIA for many centuries and imposed their names, their Latin Language, (Lingua Latina) their Roman Laws and their Christian Catholicism, all Roman.

Thank you! Excellent video. I watched it because 1) I like history and believe that the study of history and knowledge of it adds to one's life experience; 2) because I just love my Italian American friends and believe that having known them has tremendously enriched my life. Also, I am an Immigrant myself and totally agree with your guest's belief about how the American patriotism is what guides us as immigrants and also as a nation. Unlike Italy, my ancestral/native country is not a 'new' country, and it is probably why my knowledge of its history had been told to me over and over again as a child and instilled a taste for all peoples' history in me. However, this America of ours is where I find my home. Thank you again for an amazing educational and perceptive discussion.

Hit the nail on the head ! Covered every nuance 🙌🏾🙌🏾 so amazing so much clarity !

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Luca made very valid points. It was a way of survival to Americanize once our ancestors arrived here. It sucks over the generations, the culture got passed down very very little, but its great people are investing more into getting those roots back, especially now that it is okay to represent a culture from outside America. We do have Abruzzese here in NJ, especially in the northern counties, but I don't know which ones have those hotels and money haha.

Prof. Coniglio was on point!

And I do not wish for you to ever forget your heritage because I am still learning about my dual heritage as well.

i’m really curious about what it is that drives americans in particular to seek reconnection to their roots, as an italian who’s also mixed in the same way they are but just feels full italian. my grandma was from asmara, and i have experienced a bit of the culture here in italy, but it’s so distant that reclaiming or identifying with it feels off somehow…

I remember when I was still living in N.Y.C (in the late 90s) I got a long distance phone call from Italy from someone who had my last name which was Tozzi and he told me that we were probably related and I told him to please contact me if he was coming to New York and I was so excited and was hoping to have him meet our family. When 9/11 happened my husband made the decision to move to Central F.L with our children,sadly I never got to hear from my Italian relative.This is so interesting.

Great video, will share with my in-laws! 🇮🇹 😉 😎 😉

You should see the welcome Sylvestre Stalone and his whole family received when they visited the small town where Sylvestre's grandparents were from. Really beautiful in fact.

His right good going👍

I am from Staten Island and we periodically visited Meucci's house where he lived and Garibaldi stayed for a while . My grandmother from Palese in Puglia ensured that we knew.

While the USA received Italians from southern Italy, mostly men, Brazil, which has around 30 million descendants, received the majority from the north, where many still preserve regional customs and dialects in southern Brazil.

Both sides of my family immigrated from northern Italy in the early 20th century before or during the first World War. The father of one of our neighbors who was half Italian also immigrated from northern Italy , and in her later years she would like to say that he arrived by ship via first class passage. In our case the second generation maintained contact with relatives while they were alive. O ne relative from a farming family planted a special field of beans to raise money to visit the NYC area in the mid-1970s with the objective of going to see the Verrazano Bridge that connects a couple boroughs of NYC -- which he did. Years later someone from another showed up twice for Thanksgiving having been sent by his employer to cut and lay marble. Some American relatives briefly visited family in Italy. My mother said that when she was shopping in an outdoor market, during some kind of bus tour, Italians were pleased to hear her speaking in their dialogue and commented "She's one of ours." There were a few efforts teach me and my siblings some rudimentary Italian language but it mainly served as our parents secret language, and they sometimes you over what words were dialect and what was Italian. Friends of mine whose families were from southern Italy or Sicily often expected me to know a handful of words or exclamations that I did not recognize or which were pronounced in a way that made no sense to me. We were aware of the difference in cuisine, and my mother explain to that southern Italy had a tomato sauce and pasta culture while Northern Italy was a rice and butter culture, but her family still made tomato sauce , with herself and her three sisters all using distinctly different recipes, and were able to roll out pasta, but "home mades" were a special treat. My limited understanding of the unifications of Italy and of Germany and I believe Argentina all suggested to me that the American Civil War has as much to do with politicians wanting to have a large nation state and being unwilling give the southern states a divorce as it did with moral conflicts over slavery. In the film "1900" by Bernardo Bertallucci (the same director famous for The Last Emperor [of China]), I was shocked by one brief detail of the landholders locking up the peasants in a compound at night. I'd like to learn more about any quasi-serfdom that may have taken place around 125 years ago. Similarly, the movie The Leopard starring Burt Lancaster which depicts an aristocracy in southern Europe at the time of Garibaldi that has little to do with the plight of outhern Italians leaving grinding poverty or the reality that after World War II some southern Italians seem to have been still living in dwellings dug out of caves. I've also seem documentaries from the cinema verti revealing how fisherman would be met at the docks by middlemen buying their catch so cheaply that even after hauling in a boatload of fish, people ended up without enough recompense to feed their families. This brings me to an issue I have noted in comments on other videos : Is it true that after the reorganization and unification of Italy, the new central government assessed such huge tax liabilitie on southern Italy that everyone was driven into poverty, destroying the economy, with those who have traditionally survived by a subsistence living being hurt the worst. What most descendants of Italians in America know about Italian culture is from generations who left there 100 years ago. In other words we know some things about being Italian-American, but we don't know virtually anything about being Italian. From what I understand, many Italians live in small apartments, adhere diligently to current European styles of dress, follow a lot of rules about what you can eat and when and how you eat it, and don't drive large pick-up trucks. Much of the US Italian-American culture seems to revolves around large families or at least memories of having descended from large families, however the birth rate in Italy today is so low the population is not replacing itself. In other words, no one is likely to find the culture of their grandparents or great-grandparents which the wrong parents may have made some effort to pass down waiting for them in southern or northern Italy. And it's pretty much the same in the rest of Europe. I'm no authority on travel, as I can't claim to have ventured outside of the United States except for going back and forth to Canada before anyone required a visa or a passport or a special driver's license with a federal endorsement for travel, so I have no stories about how Americans are received. But I can confirm one message from this video. I want some program on regular TV featuring a popular group of young Italian male singers who were touring the US -- and interviewing them was a young reporter who tried three different ways to ask them about the importance of touring here in the United States as if expecting some sentimental reaction about Italian-Americans or Italian American culture. None of these guys understood what he was talking about or why he was asking this question which had a very presumptive set-up. They didn't care at all about singing in front of the italian-americans anymore than the Beatles would have cared differently about singing in front of Americans who had descended England, Wales, Scotland or Ireland. They were touring on their merits and their reputation. It made about as much sense as asking them if they had met anyone who owned an Italian greyhound or if they were eager to try American pizza. Europe is trying very hard to erase nationalism in established open borders within the European Union before the current push for European borders being open KZread supposed refugees from throughout the world. This doesn't mean that Italians or French or other ethnic groups are not proud of their culture and language and history. Fun Factor would seem to be the immigration today it's not a permanent separation from one's family and friends and village or city. It's not like immigrating before most people expected to be able to afford trips back and forth to their places of origin and other parts of the world. Late 19th century and early 20th century emigration for all about the wealthy upper classes was like getting on a rocket ship for Mars. Part of the family and community what's an attempt for people to hold on to what they had left behind. This is still true of real refugees today whose towns and cities have been destroyed or who may be so unwelcome in their country of origin that to return means death or imprisonment. But I must a family has maintained connections and there's some relatives to visit who recognize and want to invigorate such connection it's not hard to believe that the traveler will be seen as an embodiment of some one-dimensional cartoonish commercial culture which is hoisted upon Americans. To some degree Europe has devolved into a cultural theme park, ànd visitors are easily characterized tourists and therefore customers. It helps to understand that before it's political unification, Italy was simply a geographic description. I've looked at documented oral histories of residents of one East coast city with a big Italian immigrant population, and it contains reports of most people being unable to understand the language of anyone that did not come from their home region. English as a common language in neighborhoods and cities may account for some of the rapid assimilation and Americanization.

Alexander Graham Bell also stole Patents from many Black Inventors.

@rroadmap

7 ай бұрын

Wow! That is very interesting! I'd like to know more on this subject. I know that lots of people never got credit for their inventions. My grandfather invented many things, but he worked for a corporation and had to sign away his rights to any inventions to get the job. They all belonged to the company, even if he developed them on his own time after hours or on weekends. But did Bell actually steal the inventions? That's terrible!

@elleanna5869

7 ай бұрын

@@rroadmap I don't think he exactly "stole". In science usually things come out of multiple contributions and shared intuitions. But Bell took credit as if he created 100% of the thing which I guess is how things work in business when fair play is second to money . Unlikely Albert Einstein who credited Italian mathematician Ricci whose method was pivotal in developing Relativity Theory ☺️

@careydepass130

7 ай бұрын

Alexander Graham Bell is a Canadian from Brantford, Ontario.

@MW_Asura

5 ай бұрын

😂

@williamlucas4656

3 ай бұрын

Evidence?

My maternal grandmother was from the South and her family emigrated to Brazil. The richest man in Brazil was also a southern Italian, Francesco Matarazzo. But most families are indeed from the North. From Veneto, Tirol, from the Austrian territories.

Americans generally struggle to understand that being Italian (or most European nationalities, for that matter) is not a matter of genetics but of culture. Having a certain surname or an ancestor from a certain country means very little, if your cultural milieu and upbringing has nothing to do with that of the land of your forefathers. Language, in particular, is a defining factor in Europe, where nation states often formed around one linguistic area.

Great interview! Very informative and easy to understand. I really thought they'd talk about the Griko people. I've mentioned them in several comments and I believe they'll be discussed eventually. In case you're not aware about them here is a quick explanation. In antiquity Greeks settled much of southern Italy and Sicily. This Greek culture and language was strong in those areas for a long time .... even fairly recently. Another wave of Greeks entered the Italian peninsula after the fall of Constantinople after 1453. Their descendants considered themselves Greek, and the Italian government from my understanding took actions to Latinize them and make them Italians. There are still villages today that keep the Greek language, but the language after thousands of years is dying. One interesting story from a video on the topic I recently saw ... tourists from Greece visited one such village that still holds onto the old language. An old woman heard the tourists speaking Greek, so she asked another villager who they are. She was informed they're Greeks from Greece, and the old lady became confused. She responded "Wait, what? We don't live in Greece?". Very interesting situation. Like the professor said in the video, the villages are beautiful! I've never been, but I've seen videos of them online and they are stunning. In such villages they have Greek writing visible such as Greek street name signs, they have Greek and Cypriot flags waving. Amazing. Also, supposedly there is a reawakening happening within the people. DNA tests are helping out with that and so is tourism and the learning of history since Southern Italy is filled with ancient Greek sites including beautiful temples and entire cities. They are discovering their Greek roots and people want to touch base with the forgotten culture of their ancestors.

Is a very well put interview between the man and the woman in this video. I'm Puerto Rican drscent and I love Italian. This interview sometimes remind me of what Puerto Ricans think of stateside Puerto Ricans in the United States.

This interview was so good, I was able to get over the cringeworthy sound quality from the Italian guest. It would be fantastic to get lots, lots more of these kinds of in-depth interviews on the topic of the Italian diaspora.

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

I know, I am so sorry! We had terrible connection issues. His call dropped a few times. I hope to try it again with better sound :)

When I was studying Italian for opera, I wished we could have received at least a semester of Italian history.

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

I wish I had taken it!

@lucianomezzetta4332

7 ай бұрын

Take a course in it. It exists in colleges that are serious.

@clelia7820

7 ай бұрын

It is difficult to sing something composed by Verdi without knowing, for example, that most of those operas were written to encourage the revolution and the unification of Italy.

A lot of italians identify by their regional cultural specifics. But im native nizzardo from a south piemontese family. I have a lot of old nizzardi books, and even from guys from others kingdoms like this book " Herculano battaglia della lingua italiana ". Its 1545, and it was written as others stuff from nizzardi themselves, that " Nizza una città d'italia ". Its the same before and after in 17th, 18th and 19th even before unification. Nizzardi identified as part of italy and italian as geographic and cultural ensemble within that peninsula.. But great nizzardi of the past felt Nissard first too. There 's a lot of italian great litterature ( used since 1300, official since 1561-1871 ) in italian made by Nissart , but the litterature in vernaculaer was as rich. From 1075 with the religious men ans lords, , to the " trobador ", mathematicians, musicians, poetry, you name it. And especially by 17th -19th the poetry in Vernacular was as huge and shared the same place than in italian etc... Giuseppe Garibaldi was Nissard ( Nissart the rt was a contraction over the years that made rd sound rt ), Enrico Sappia , diisciple of Mazzini , was Nissard, known in southern italy as italian teacher and writer under the.E.Simone Serpentini name ( he was researched after trying to kill Ferninand II in 1848 , beign underage, send by Mazzini, but volontary ) . Gian carolo Passeroni was Nissard, from the Cuntea. Giuseppe Bres was too, Francesco Barberis also from Sospello. Giulio Torrini and Andrioli and Fulconis as Pellos / Pellozi were more on the Tinea aera. Giovanni Badat was a chronicles man and poet who reviewed some events of the 1543 war against the Franco turkish , while writing some stuff in the Genoese float. Thoses events is where the figure Catarina Segurana became an heroin. Santa Reparata, which' s body went here, is one of the guardian of Nizza as it is for Firenze. Some prestigious nobility but also writer, poetry, such Lascaris family. Very old in Nizza / Nissa, they were counts of Ventimiglia and Briga too. Giuseppe Andrea, also co director of the local news papers, resistant to the french " Il Nizzardo ", in Italian language and Nizzardo. There re others, older, from the same time, such Il Pensiero Di Nizza, La Voce di Nizza... I mention that maybe for others italian to remember some things because with annexion and attempt of acculturation for 100 years and bit less than haklf, esoecially today they don't make the connection. So to say that maybe not everywhere but before the unification and annexion some italian regions identified as italian in what ive mentionned, maybe not in the modern sense. To make clear that the " italianity " as geographic and cultural ensemble within is not from 1860/61, but from the antiquity. Pasqual Paoli, father of the Corsican nation said in 1760 that " Siamo Corsi di cuore ma per nostri costumi, nostri tradizione e lingua siamo italiani ". Anyway, Nice video, very interesting points and enjoyable .

@nytn

7 ай бұрын

What a wonderful addition to the video, thank you!

@lucianomezzetta4332

7 ай бұрын

Bravo! I am an Ligurian. It is refreshing to read someone who knows even arcane Italian history and knows that Nice was once part of Italy. Belin!

@Nissardpertugiu

7 ай бұрын

@@nytn thank you very much.

@Nissardpertugiu

7 ай бұрын

@@lucianomezzetta4332 Great also to see others ligurian remember this though it wasn't that long ago. Sometimes some genovesi snobs are like that because we re under occupation that we didn't have anything in common in ancient roots. Kind of snobism i though more torinese than so close. I talk italian too, not as good as my mom haha but i talk and write the old Nissard, until 1931 kind of, before the mutilation in the sense of french annexion of thoses clowns " del' oltre varo e loro croce di tolosa " they throw everywhere on the coast to catalogna . Posso capire cuneese, ligure e catalano via questo. In maggiore parte.

So .... since pizza and spaghetti are southern Italian in origin ... what are equivalent popular foods of northern Italy? Rice was mentioned, but what kinda rice? Risotto?

@nytn

6 ай бұрын

Video on that coming! :)

@beatrice5660

6 ай бұрын

Tortellini, ravioli, gnocchi and lasagne are very common types of pasta in Northern Italy

@italico3222

16 күн бұрын

@@beatrice5660 also in southern Italy

@italico3222

16 күн бұрын

Italy is not a race but a nation and Italians are the citizens of this country

I grew up in North Jersey...right across the river from NYC. There was lots of people of Italian descent where I lived. First thing I realized when I visited Italy is that the 'Italian' food and furniture I experienced in New Jersey doesn't exist in Italy.

First thing, I want deeply to get to Napoli with my birth certificate to get my citizenship. My grandfather was born there. I am a little embarrassed that I only went to tourist destinations but my trip was still sublime and life changing. Ms. Romero, you must go. And may I say the one you go with is the luckiest alive.

I was watching Italian videographers about 15 - 20 years ago. That summer people were calling in. Someone from USA called in. You could see the disdain on their faces while he was inviting them to his 4th of July feast.

@dominicbriganti5710

7 ай бұрын

They hate italoamericans.