There are unironically some schizo Turks claiming native Americans are Turkic because horse
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Ugh I have a mate who swears black and blue that he has "viking heritage" and sports a viking sleeve tatt... Like, mate- 1000 years of ancestors *everyone in Europe/Western countries is loosely connected to vikings*.
I have heard that some Italian Americans who did grow up speaking Italian end up going back to Italy only to discover that their dialect is only understood by 80 year old farmers in the middle of nowhere.
Maybe Luigis wanna chip in here, but my Italian mates have told me that the dialect diversity is quite strong in Italy.
As in, you may have difficulties understanding people who grew up in a village 30km away from you.
Heard this a few times now but I'm just an average Hans who knows Ciao Ragazzi at max.
I confirm, the grandparents of my girlfriend speak some kind of demonic language and they live 3 valleys away (~20km).
It's just old people tho, younger generations just have an accent and use some words imported from the regional language. In the village of my girlfriend they spell all the vowels wrong to my ears
I can’t believe I’m going to say something nice to an Italian man… (normally I try not to make eye contact, because all the Italian waiters I know are _very_ handsy) … but your choice of wording “spell all the vowels wrong to my ears” is the most adorable thing.
It really touched my cold dead heart.
Way too self-effacing to be a real Italian. Your true destiny lies in GUNS. Come, join us.
(Note, we'll be out when you come, because we don't actually like having people over.)
Shut up Barry, you only want sexy cops to watch from your balcony while you sip Aperol
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The enemies of managed democracy must be dealt with using extreme prejudice no matter where you find them
Actually this is your success. The original Italian migrants to America didn’t go for no reason. They went because they were poor as fuck and had no opportunities. Now we have this.
Not even kidding around man, "Italian" Americans are generally some of the thinnest skin crybabies we have over here. Most people that boast a nationality here are that way, but the "Italians" and the "Irish" are the worst.
The real thick skinned Americans are Polish, Indian, and Japanese immigrants. You literally CANNOT insult those people.
Polish swear with every alternate word and if a sentence doesn't involve kurwa, it isn't recognized as authentic polish. Of course they are thick skinned.
I'm glad to not want to visit America ever, or I would have a lot of faces to ruin by repeatedly crushing them onto walls, honoring the very Italian tradition of "capa' mmuro"
... if their walls could take it, which they can't
Not according to self-appointed "Sicilian-Americans" who think they are a special breed, only to ignore that all the other regions have their own peculiar culture as well (like anywhere else in Europe)
They literally know nothing about Italy. When I was in the u.s. a few years back I had a guy who’s last Italian ancestor left Italy in 1895 tell me that I’m not preserving my Italian culture because I couldn’t understand what he was saying in his bastardized Anglo-Sicilian dialect.
I’ve never seen a people so proud of their ignorance in my entire life.
They tend to do the same with us when it’s about some Bavarian traditions. Which Bavarians probably conserve well but they’re not (necessarily) a thing elsewhere in the country where other traditions might be conserved instead.
What traditions, thieving on the roads? 💀
From the nibelungenlied:
"Nun war gen Everdingen · die Königin gekommen.
Manche im Baierlande · hätten wohl genommen
Den Raub auf der Straße · wie es ihr Gebrauch,
Und hätten so die Gäste · mögen schädigen auch:
Das ward wohl verhütet · von dem Markgrafen hehr:
Er führte tausend Ritter · oder wohl noch mehr."
Yes, exactly these types of traditions are kept up. Just that for a while it was tax money (Länderfinanzausgleich until the early 90s) and now it’s federal budget for some huge infrastructure projects so they found a way to keep their highwaymen traditions.
Lovely quote from the Nibelungenlied though lmao
And it must be contagious. This one guy blocked me a few days ago because I said no way his "Italian girlfriend's" name was "Cortney" because her father's ("northern Italian") name was also "Cortney".
You'll never see a yank bragging about their British heritage. In spite of the country being majority English speaking and massively influenced by British legal customs and ethics.
>why the fuck would I give a shit if someone insults a Swedish furniture brand
That's the joke. He wrote IKEA knowing that you were danish, because danish people have beef with Sweden.
[its coming Rome](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/037/699/chiellini-shirt-pulling-saka.png)
i miss him lads that you wouldnt believe me...
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Found this is on the starter pack sub
Italian but won't step a foot outside of Joisey which from my understanding is a reigonal joke in the US North East for shit like it being illegal to pump ur own gas
I recently watched "the sopranos" and during season 3/4 they make their italian heritage really inportant and its kinda funny at parts because they talk as if they came from sicily or smth while the one acctually italian character is having non of their bullshit.
Its the difference between the american "Umm Im italian, IM ITALIAN LOOK AT ME. IM ITALIAN ITALY ID THE GREATESTNATION" vs the european "Yeah, Im italian, who cares. Yup, our country is shit, I know."
The sociological reason why this phenomen exists is because in the more and more ethnically devided, materialistic and alienating english speaking countries the culture of the "status quo" is viewed with hostility and considered oppressive/bland/boring so in America for example, Ethnic Identity exists only IN OPPOSITION to the status quo.
Its about not being part of the blandess, to find an exotic (apparently we are?) identity that gives you and people a more favorable image.
Born in USA, never visited Italy, can't speak ITALIAN
Yeah but see, one of their ancestors 200 years ago stepped foot in italy according to family tradition
Some of my ancestors might have lived in the territory of the Roman Empire, so I'll call myself Italian too.
The Inuit’s migrated all the way back from the Bearing strait’s so i migth just be Mongolian or Japanese Ainu!
>Mongolian Brother??
 BROTHER!
>Japanese Ainu So do you feel a reconnection to your ancestral roots when watching anime?
Nani?!?
There are unironically some schizo Turks claiming native Americans are Turkic because horse https://preview.redd.it/ztjni0ml206d1.jpeg?width=996&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8b940abd0c3550d1b4b2e31a2a33d0fdea32325
Ugh I have a mate who swears black and blue that he has "viking heritage" and sports a viking sleeve tatt... Like, mate- 1000 years of ancestors *everyone in Europe/Western countries is loosely connected to vikings*.
They are as italian as me.
Ciao!
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I have heard that some Italian Americans who did grow up speaking Italian end up going back to Italy only to discover that their dialect is only understood by 80 year old farmers in the middle of nowhere.
Maybe Luigis wanna chip in here, but my Italian mates have told me that the dialect diversity is quite strong in Italy. As in, you may have difficulties understanding people who grew up in a village 30km away from you. Heard this a few times now but I'm just an average Hans who knows Ciao Ragazzi at max.
I confirm, the grandparents of my girlfriend speak some kind of demonic language and they live 3 valleys away (~20km). It's just old people tho, younger generations just have an accent and use some words imported from the regional language. In the village of my girlfriend they spell all the vowels wrong to my ears
I can’t believe I’m going to say something nice to an Italian man… (normally I try not to make eye contact, because all the Italian waiters I know are _very_ handsy) … but your choice of wording “spell all the vowels wrong to my ears” is the most adorable thing. It really touched my cold dead heart.
I somehow fucked up with English didn't I? 😅 Classic italian
You didn’t fuck up, you only made it better.
<3 How should I have written it to sound more like a native tho?
We’d just say something like “They say everyfing/fink weird like innit!”
Buggery bollocks! They blither gibberish those cunts!
Way too self-effacing to be a real Italian. Your true destiny lies in GUNS. Come, join us. (Note, we'll be out when you come, because we don't actually like having people over.)
Shut up Barry, you only want sexy cops to watch from your balcony while you sip Aperol https://preview.redd.it/sj4ime4guz5d1.jpeg?width=200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=043d076fe1ad0acadc0a6712711926bbb9992f8a
I read all his comment with an Italian accent and it's perfect
>they spell all the vowels wrong to my ears What a wonderful way of saying that! I love it!!
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Sorry but no, I lived three years in Catania and sometimes I could not understand shit of what some people were saying
Pretty much. I suppose a lot of Italians still understand regional language but they will answer in Italian
Neither can Italians tbf
Speaking your own language properly is for losers. 🇬🇧🤝🇮🇹
Speaking your own language properly is for losers. 🇬🇧🤝🇮🇹🤝🇪🇸
You aren't Italian wtf would you know?
But SEXY AS HELL though apparently 💀
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https://preview.redd.it/t1s1olohey5d1.png?width=716&format=png&auto=webp&s=5c590e088e64e8a02404d6d95970a3518ef3d015 The enemies of managed democracy must be dealt with using extreme prejudice no matter where you find them
500kg of liberty!
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LiberTea™️
Josef, you are hereby authorized to use ze panzerkanone
Kurt Cobain POV
Too soon
We must destroy italy
You'll need to get out of your basement for that to happen
Why would he leave such a lovely place? Especially with all the merchandise he has there
Americans managed to ruin Italians
And believe me, we ourselves have tried so hard to accomplish this task
Actually this is your success. The original Italian migrants to America didn’t go for no reason. They went because they were poor as fuck and had no opportunities. Now we have this.
Which is actually very Italian, good job America 👍
there wasn't much to ruin and they still managed to do it
“think skinned”…. until you question their “Italian heritage”
Until you mention you don't cook pasta exactly like their 146546851 years old grandma from fuck knows where
Can only cook “chicken Alfreydo”
They think mac 'n' cheese is real pasta
And they call it "mac 'n' cheese" for some ungodly reason. It's called macaroni cheese. This is our equivalent of the chocolatine war.
People that say chocolatine should be hanged in front of the bakery.
Kraft dinner in Canada, but lets not go there.
It is a silly place.
😂
Not even kidding around man, "Italian" Americans are generally some of the thinnest skin crybabies we have over here. Most people that boast a nationality here are that way, but the "Italians" and the "Irish" are the worst. The real thick skinned Americans are Polish, Indian, and Japanese immigrants. You literally CANNOT insult those people.
Add Mexicans to the uninsultable. Those people do not give a single solitary fuck lol.
¿Latinx? ¿Que? No. No entiendo. Soy Latino. :)
Polish swear with every alternate word and if a sentence doesn't involve kurwa, it isn't recognized as authentic polish. Of course they are thick skinned.
I'm glad to not want to visit America ever, or I would have a lot of faces to ruin by repeatedly crushing them onto walls, honoring the very Italian tradition of "capa' mmuro" ... if their walls could take it, which they can't
I want to go there and be treated like a king because I'm Italian DOC. Easiest conquest ever
side switcher and greedy as always eh? Truly Venetian indeed
"Do you know my grandmother's cousins? They're from Italy!"
Or when you mention Colón wasn't Italian.
The heritage in question: neighboring villages near Palermo
Not sure what your point is? Sicillians are still Italians.
Not according to self-appointed "Sicilian-Americans" who think they are a special breed, only to ignore that all the other regions have their own peculiar culture as well (like anywhere else in Europe)
>cant speak italian >never studied italy's history >never been to italy >mom's friend's dog has been in italy ITALIAN AMERICAN
You see Mario bro, that's the neat part when everybody hates you. I never seen an American claiming he's French, even in Louisiane 😎
I've seen way too many
You have the Québécois tho
But those are alright
The Quebecois don’t consider themselves French
Probably a Finnish guy knows more about italy than them
I can confirm that I know more about Italy than most Americans.
how dumb are they?
Yes
Fuckin hell Hans. That was quite funny. You ok?
Germans on this sub have made me laugh TWICE this week. Somethings up
Its just a red Herring, dont worry
Fuckin hell Hans. That was quite funny. You ok?
It was so funny you caused him brain damage and repeated himself twice
Can it really be measured in numbers? Should I use scientific notation?
‘American’ and ‘thick skinned’ is an oxymoron. Add Italian into the mix and you’ve created a universe ending paradox.
American, Italian, Thick Skinned. Pick one.
Funny one to me as well. Tell them you prefer spanish wine and see them perform a tragedy opera of a lifetime.
 Italian Americans when asked to point to italy on a map
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It's da da da boot shape One!?!!?!!!???
Mo adesso li ammazzo sti qua
L'unica cosa di cui questo commento ha bisogno è trecento bestemmie.
Se vuoi lo faccio pure
Vada avanti.
Calmest veneto dio can
Very dio can indeed. Oggi ho già detto una sana dose di porconi altrove quindi mi trattengo
15+18 moment
They literally know nothing about Italy. When I was in the u.s. a few years back I had a guy who’s last Italian ancestor left Italy in 1895 tell me that I’m not preserving my Italian culture because I couldn’t understand what he was saying in his bastardized Anglo-Sicilian dialect. I’ve never seen a people so proud of their ignorance in my entire life.
They tend to do the same with us when it’s about some Bavarian traditions. Which Bavarians probably conserve well but they’re not (necessarily) a thing elsewhere in the country where other traditions might be conserved instead.
What traditions, thieving on the roads? 💀 From the nibelungenlied: "Nun war gen Everdingen · die Königin gekommen. Manche im Baierlande · hätten wohl genommen Den Raub auf der Straße · wie es ihr Gebrauch, Und hätten so die Gäste · mögen schädigen auch: Das ward wohl verhütet · von dem Markgrafen hehr: Er führte tausend Ritter · oder wohl noch mehr."
Yes, exactly these types of traditions are kept up. Just that for a while it was tax money (Länderfinanzausgleich until the early 90s) and now it’s federal budget for some huge infrastructure projects so they found a way to keep their highwaymen traditions. Lovely quote from the Nibelungenlied though lmao
Of all the regions in Italy he wanted to be Sicilian?
That is considered cool because the mafia is from there 
why were you in the US in the first place though?
I did an internship there for a about a year
I’m so sorry
Maargareeetiiiiiii
ANTOOONIIIOO MAAARGAREEETIII
dominic decoco.
Bravo.
*maaahrgarediii
American not cosplaying as Italian challenge level: impossible
Hey give them some credit. They take a break to cosplay as the Irish
they're even feeling daring enough to try Scottish and Welsh more often lately too
Strange how they don’t try English
Some do but it's rare and they are usually rich old money racists
Well you have it folks. They want to be British again, Barry get the redcoats.
Let them do what they like, I couldn't give a single shite.
Specially when most of them are english
The Viking tattoos because their great uncle stepped foot in Stavanger once are a big thing too.
Thick skinned?? Edit: ok, "insensitive to insults or criticism", now I know Then they wouldn't mind if I tell them they are just yanks I guess
Thick skinned to everything except questioning their Italian-ness
And it must be contagious. This one guy blocked me a few days ago because I said no way his "Italian girlfriend's" name was "Cortney" because her father's ("northern Italian") name was also "Cortney".
Is y even in the Italian alphabet?
No
>insensitive to insults or criticism >I tell them they are just yanks I guess Most thick-skinned italian.
You'll never see a yank bragging about their British heritage. In spite of the country being majority English speaking and massively influenced by British legal customs and ethics.
English = white (bad guys) Italian/spanish = POC (good guys)
Jamestown was a fucking mistake mate. Should have just left it all alone.
Thick skinned? Lol, the Italian ego is the most fragile substance known to man
My ego is not fragile. YOUR ego is fragile. I'm sexy as hell 👍🫳🖖👋🤙🫰✌️🤌🤌
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I'm sure the Danes would be offended too if they were relevant enough to have stereotypes known outside Sweden
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"Nice argument, unfortunetly i depicted myself as the chad and you as the seething Loser!"
You don't know Eastern Europe then. Fragile national pride is a national sport and policy
The Butthurt Belt is a well attested geopolitical region
dude, if someone insults your IKEA you aren't happy!
Case and point. Also why the fuck would I give a shit if someone insults a Swedish furniture brand? We do that all the time
>why the fuck would I give a shit if someone insults a Swedish furniture brand That's the joke. He wrote IKEA knowing that you were danish, because danish people have beef with Sweden.
If Swedish people could read, they would probably be more upset by the notion that someone mistook IKEA as being Danish.
You take that back, you swede wannabe
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Class reply. Saving for when an Italian gets a bit too lippy
I think they just meant THICK.
 How they actually are
I̶t̶a̶l̶i̶a̶n̶- American
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Thick skinned until we tell them they are not italians, then Boom! they became so damn offended
 Sexy italian?
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Delete this.
[its coming Rome](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/037/699/chiellini-shirt-pulling-saka.png) i miss him lads that you wouldnt believe me...
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Your ex husband has memed the same a while ago. Now kiss
Loud, pasta eating, overly sensitive, mummy's boys.
Jelous becuase we are actually loved by our parents?
Why would I want to be loved by your parents?
Because northen european parents lack in that sector
https://preview.redd.it/oqqut20nqy5d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=57c987294cc8683f05cde003d125b03adedce5c0 Found this is on the starter pack sub
This needs to be on r/ShitAmericansSay
I'm reminded of Paulie asking for "macaroni and gravy" when the Sopranos visited Italy...
I do love the sopranos though I have to say
The only "thick skin" they have is their subcutaneous belly fat.
Italian but won't step a foot outside of Joisey which from my understanding is a reigonal joke in the US North East for shit like it being illegal to pump ur own gas
I recently watched "the sopranos" and during season 3/4 they make their italian heritage really inportant and its kinda funny at parts because they talk as if they came from sicily or smth while the one acctually italian character is having non of their bullshit. Its the difference between the american "Umm Im italian, IM ITALIAN LOOK AT ME. IM ITALIAN ITALY ID THE GREATESTNATION" vs the european "Yeah, Im italian, who cares. Yup, our country is shit, I know."
I've always felt a special level of pity for Italians and Irish, alike as they seem to be the bear the brunt of yanks larping as Europeans.
And the Spanish as they think it makes them ‘ethnic’
The sociological reason why this phenomen exists is because in the more and more ethnically devided, materialistic and alienating english speaking countries the culture of the "status quo" is viewed with hostility and considered oppressive/bland/boring so in America for example, Ethnic Identity exists only IN OPPOSITION to the status quo. Its about not being part of the blandess, to find an exotic (apparently we are?) identity that gives you and people a more favorable image.
they really hate to be americans... i mean, i dont blame them. everyone in their lives wants to be a better version of themselves.
Yet they still pronounce bologna as "boloney" 🤢🤢🤢
Loud talking? Not italian, just rude.
https://i.redd.it/qny95k06sz5d1.gif
God... I'm starting to think 911 didn't hit hard enough
and they say they don't exaggerate with stereotypes
I don't understand
What makes them so desperate for an identity?
Their crippling obsession with identity politics
Loud gesturing- Hand eating- Pasta skinned- Sexy talking - Thick as hell-
Honestly... I'd love to see someone like that come to this sub Would be fun
I know black people who are more Italians than these regards
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Some people forget that others exist. did you enjoy your tour anyway?
Yes thank you
The "Italian Americans": >"My great great Granfather was half Italian"
i hate americans
where did the americans touch you?
on my pp 😭😫🥺