The National Italian American Foundation - "Who We Are" 

I don't know about the port city of Lagos to the south Atlantic but to east The Italian and Kenyan people have a very special relationship with each other and both nations vacation in each other's resorts ...

Thanks from Italy

Ball of yarn

i love the italian people much love from the Latin community

@@franciscoarmenta8785 Non-Italians have ruined this whole comment section.

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I think what is worse than that is all the "white guilt" bullshit..... where we have to GD shoulder the blame for what occurred before we were even here! And that's even assuming that anyone is even guilty for what an ancestor did in the first place. Also, they keep talking about Columbus, and not the Spanish Empire that he was merely an agent for.

In northern California, it was mainly Ligurian and Tuscan ancestry.

Sicilian Chris same my moms family is from Trapani in Sicily and my dads family is Neapolitan born and raised in Bensonhurst Brooklyn FORZA ITALIA 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

Ed io sono italiano al 100%

Commendatorii 🤌

Personally, I have never felt that way.....I'm sorry this has happened in your life. Be strong, even still today where you are, stand up for your heritage, refuse to be put on the back burner.......

Ha! Be glad you did not live in Canada , before The Muslims and people from The Middle East arrived in Canada . Canadian Italians took a lot of crap , Italians in Canada and The U.S. are very charitable towards strangers , I did not find that in Italy .I spoke to two ladies from Texas visiting Italy , they could not believe how nasty , Italians in Italy could be.

@@Jay-vr9ir My great grands parents came here from Ireland and Italy in the late 1800s. Almost 130 years ago. My grand kids would not know Italy or Ireland if they fell over it. Get over it.

@@grantomalley8532 Get over your grand kids? Okay.

@@Jay-vr9ir huh?

Italo americano non significa Italiano. Gli Italiani vivono solo in Italia e parlano l'Italiano. Dovete farvene una ragione. Siete Americani e non c'è nulla di male.

Viva l'Italia!

Forza Palermo

siculi esporatori di Mafia

🫡🤝Salute, ho sangue di sicilia (Palermo) e Calabria 🤌

@@alessiogagliardi4211 Hatred depicts a true picture of you,😂😂😂😂😂😂 Fatti una bella doccia fredda, ti prometto che ti sveglierà.

is there a big italo-canadian population in nova scotia? I actually wanted to move there from Toronto! (and finally Italy when I retire in 30 years lol)

There’s many similarities in the Italian and Mexican cultures. We’re both very family focused hard working people , similar music and even the flag is almost the same. Also although Italians mostly arrived many generations ago their experiences with prejudice , harsh treatment, negative propaganda and misrepresentation upon getting here is very similar. It always bothers me to see Italian Americans speaking badly about more recent immigrants because it shows a complete disconnect from the hardships their ancestors went through. Salute 🫡🇮🇹🇲🇽

@@antonthebum There is a lot to discuss, and its unhelpful to have people who are not of Italian descent sticking their noses in what tiny tiny tiny media we have! You could rattle off the names of 100 cultures to fit that category.... "family oriented." When my family purchased a $7,000 dollar Chrysler Cordova in 1979, we would get flipped off and cursed by Mexicans... kids mostly... out of jealousy for our GD $7,000 car, which my father earned working as a truck driver. He literally drove 2 million miles all around the west coast delivering goods to make this county run, yet we were expected to apologize to Mexicans for our $7,000 car!!

Great movie my father had a little part in the film

Thank you.My great-grandparents near my mother's side were Italian.

@@jobranch2097 My great-grandparents survived that events.

@@jobranch2097 My great-grandparents survived that events.

Minus everything the mafia stole

@@georgeboeheinger5573 The mafia represents Italians at the same level Nazism represents Germans

What about your american culture

Ιωάννης the parthenopean Saluti!!

Grazie mille per le tue parole

Love from India

Your better life came from usa not italy

Grazie! I could kiss your feet for saying that!:')♡

@@rockyracoon3233 no need AHHAAH

@@francesca_415 . Well I'd be honored regardless. lol

ben detto! Praticamente questo commento lo avrei potuto scrivere io!

ho una domanda per te, cosa pensano gli italiani della cantante Levante? Penso che dovrebbe essere più famoso (non so il congiuntivo di dovere ancora lol)

Louise Sobieski same here!!

Pair of criminals.

In San Francisco, there was a huge Italian area once (not North Beach), but its disappeared because of the endless influx of immigrants from Asia and Latin America after 1965. Then those scattered soon don't know anything about even those neighborhoods as they were for generations.

siamo nella stessa squadra, andiamo! :D

Agreed and I love our culture but every other culture that came here adds to it and makes it a more beautiful place as well

Yes we did.. so proud b Italian

Yeah... A difference to the crime stats.

Potenza italian Viene transportato nel sangue

But for many reasons , sometimes more hard than others , are considered americans and not italians by European italians .

@@Nissardpertugiu Simply for us Italians (and Europeans in general), we perceive as Italians only those born and raised in Italy, because it is not your DNA that makes you an Italian, but it is living a culture every day, attending the same schools, knowing by heart the same advertising jingles, having the same mindset, unfortunately it is not enough to have an Italian grandfather who arrived in America when he was a child to be able to absorb all these things! Here Italian Americans will always be respected, they will always be welcome, but they will never be considered Italians since we are culturally too different and have little in common!

@@Refref1990 and where a native nizzardo like me fits in ? My italian lineage is direct, not from 2 centuries ago. You know the history of Nizza right ? Ive been in Piemonte in numberous time as litle kid its not far away at all. The other in my family i was in Corsica . I talk a bit italian and i understand and make few sentences in nissardo, i know few stuff in ligure and piemonteis and Corsican too. I re learn because by mooves of life , i lost it a bit with living in Metz or Paris too. But i did came back where i was from last year. Everything fall in place again..

@@Nissardpertugiu Well, here we were talking about Italian Americans, you too understand that your speech is slightly different and certainly not as common as with Italian Americans! Basically Nice is geographically part of the Italian territory, but culturally it is part of the French territory! You can come and go to Italy much easier than an American, but by your admission you don't know the language well and therefore I suppose you will be more immersed in French life than in Italian. You will have watched French programs as a child, French cartoons, done French schools, and your mindset will be French. During the Eurovision you will have cheered France and the same will have done at the World Cup and obviously you will have voted for your French president instead of the Italian one. In theory, as a European you should agree with me that in all respects you are French, despite your genetics being of Italian base. I don't know the border areas very well, so I know that there is usually a contamination of the neighboring country (as happens in Trentino where Italians also speak German). Obviously it is easier for you to get in touch with your origins as you are on the border, but in theory you remain French! Also because you should first of all answer yourself a question: If hypothetically tomorrow a war broke out between Italy and France, which side would you take sides? But given your particular situation, I'd like to know how you in Nice consider yourselves and your relationship with Italy according to the France you belong to!

@@Refref1990 i talked Nissart as little kid too , and italian terms. Again back then i was Between Nizza, Villa franca , Monterosso grana and Furiani ( and more ) for my first 6 /7 years. I did continue to go in Corsica till...2020. Nissa isn't culturally french, its piemonteso ligure.. The fact it got invaded by france doesnt change that fact . It survive, even more in clandestinity. A part of my attitude never left , because the kid inside never died.. As contrary even in mode expressing i had few frictions with people in Paris and stuff because im not a very cartesian type of guy. I mean im more artistic. Descriptive. In fact , even i did saw french program i didn't much was exposed to TV. And a part of my family's pretty rebel. I don't own a TV , and official story , especially in french republic, is a fairytale. I kept certain expressions but 2 years ago i did come back. I don't write in french with mom much in messages for example. I don't talk french in bakeries, as its possible. Things still deep inside sometimes need a little help to be alive again. ;). But i know both cultures you re right .

Yeah, right. The early 20th century equivalent of working in 'Waste Management.'

What a peed.

Hispanics ( not me I speak Spanish) also get the same shit because some don't speak Spanish.

Not too late to start learning bro. Im Sicilian/ calabrese born in nyc so I learned way more Spanish than Italian growing up due to my environment and the lack of italian speakers but I have recently been learning A lot and and I’m picking it up quickly. There’s a good app called Duolingo that is very helpful, definitely worth checking out

netmaxess because you are, mafias!

@@imranhq13 that's funny, an arab that looks down on italians

That's because people only like to show more the bad parts of things and never the good

They do the same with us Hispanics , always in Gangs , overly dramatic etc

Don't worry, those roles have now been replaced by Mexicans. LOL

Wow bro interesting background. Your name says it all, the combo of Bryce and Bertolino is about as American as it gets. My family had the more traditional immigration story. Italy/Sicily ➡️Ellis island ➡️the Bronx My first name was also Americanized but it was passed down from my great grandfather (Antonino) to my uncle (Anthony) to me (Anton)

Bagna cauda e risotto.... You grow up well, my Friends 😋

Amerigo Vespucci from Florence

There is no Italian Sicilian term! If you were born in America you are an Italian American (more American than Italian), even if your grandparents came from Sicily! I am Sicilian and I consider myself Italian first, because Italy also includes Sicily!

For some reason, many Italians now kiss the asses of Anglos, Jews, and blacks. They're sure not GD nice to us! Their stupidity reins supreme, but the Italian values are gone. The bizarre, stupid, and destructive culture that they impose is suffocating.

Define talent lol

Fact

So you are more Italian than people who actually descend from Italians? As a German?

@@you-in5iy Culturally it's possible since Italians and Germans share an European common culture, while Italian-Americans are culturally more similar to other Americans than to Italians from Italy. Obviously ethnically Italian Americans are Italians.

2800 to be precise

Mafia

George Boeheinger .....so small minded. That's like saying all Germans are like Hitler.

Love from Scottish american🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸

@@michellemeyer1214 . Well said Sista!

Rocky Racoon ......thank you buddy!!!!!

Questa matematica non mi torna....🤔

Lots of European immigrants had bad times in their home countries.

We use "mamma mia" like "oh my mum", similar to "oh my god".

@@masterjunky863 Same thing in Spanish. It’s not just “My mom”

purtroppo anche qui, il generazione nuovo sono più isolati

Gli americani hanno una crisi d'identità e ben poca vergogna

I worship Maria's footprints!

What are the rules? My Maternal Grandfather was born in Pallazo Adriano, Palermo Province Sicilia, but on my Fathers side, his Grandfather came over around 1903 (33 years old) from Trapani Province, Sicilia. I am 53 years old and thinking about doing that.

@Keyrings Locks Will do. My Paternal Great Grandfather actually never became a citizen. He applied in the 1920's, or petitioned, but it never got pass that. Reasons given, "none", that is what it says on the petition. So, given he never got pass the petition stage, he never had to renounce the King of Italy (I think there still was a King in the 1920's before Mussolini took over) and thus never renounced his Italian citizenship. My Paternal Grandfather was born near New Orleans so he was under current U.S. Law, same back then, a U.S. citizen. What I don't have is birth certificate or baptism records for my Great Grandfather and there was a serious earthquake that hit Trapani in 1968 and his town got leveled, I think they moved it away from where they found out the fault was. Hopefully, the records survived, particularly the Catholic Church records (sacrament of Baptism, Holy Matrimony, Requium Masses, etc.) since those can allow you to go way back.

@@palermotrapani9067 if i may ask you do feel italian or american

@@raoufduc1441 I feel both. I am an American of Italian ancestry.

@@jobranch2097 si si...we are waiting for you

penso che sia così perché sente strano per pronuncia tutto in inglese e poi poche parole con la pronuncia italiana (scusi per il mio italiano, sto imparando ancora)

Did you miss the title of the video?

Exactly