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Most of the time I can tell Hispanics and Italians apart even if the Hispanic is lightskin, because even a lot of lightskin Hispanics have high cheekbones and almond shaped eyes due to Native American admixture. Italians don't have almond shaped eyes and high cheekbones.
Even Elvis Presley was a Mestizo (european+amerindian)
Mestizo US nationals tend to deny their amerindian genes when the census takes place.
There is 1 state that is very european and thats New England. I am not saying White since White in the usa could be any multiracial light skinned Joe with North African, Middle Eastern, or European blood. I am saying European because New England is 97 percent populated by European ethnic groups.
Have you ever been to New England? It's not a state, btw..........
Some Latin Americans mostly in South America have Italian ancestry
U.S latinos? I don't think so.... most are Americanized Mexican and puerto ricans, maybe they are similar to Italian Americans in some ways.... I don't know.
There was an old joke that an Italian is a Puerto Rican with a job. Now don't you all go flogging me at once now.
I'll have to remember that when I sit my Puerto Rican behind in my classic Mercedes 6.9 and drive to Charleston to take my daughter and son-in-law to Isle-of-Palms to play and Hyman's for dinner this weekend, loser.
If the similarities feel good and comfortable to you, then you have some very nice Italian friends.
Some of my mother's family came here from Spain and my best friend is Italian.
Many people believe that the languages are similar, but Italian was quite a bit more difficult for me than Spanish. Some words in Italian are spelled the same way in Spanish but have entirely different meanings. Gotta be careful!
America really is "the melting pot" of the world. My mother's family had to wait in line with all of the correct paperwork, while my father's family had always been here. His great grandfather was Native American.
So true on the language, I spent a summer with a friend from Maranello in San Juan and in the course of practicing the Italian she taught me, said a sentence with the Italian word for ear in it, which made us both break out in laughter, as my mispronounciation made it sound like something else in both Italian and Spanish (anno means ear, ano means, well you know...).
yes im italian and me and my whole family prefer to be called latin over white any day take a look at mexico spain italia brazil cuba and all the other latin countries and look for similarities i bet your going to find alot now as for our language well its damn near the same as spanish like people from portugal only thing is that we italians from italia can speak speak spanish and italian due to how similar the language is hope this helps you
I wonder why you and your whole family prefer to be called Latin over white much better!
Both of Mario Balotelli's parents are from Ghana. So he is obviously not ethnically Italian like Silvio Berlusconi who's both parents were born and raised in Italy.
Mario Balotelli is about as native to Italy as Charlize Theron is native to South Africa. I am sure most Black South Africans do not consider Charlize Theron to be one of their people, just like I am sure most White Italians do not consider Mario Balotelli to be one of their people.
Both of Mario Balotelli's parents are from Ghana. So he is obviously not ethnically Italian like Silvio Berlusconi who's both parents were born and raised in Italy.
Mario Balotelli is about as native to Italy as Charlize Theron is native to South Africa. I am sure most Black South Africans do not consider Charlize Theron to be one of their people, just like I am sure most White Italians do not consider Mario Balotelli to be one of their people.
All true. But he IS Italian, because he was born there and it's the only country he lived in prior to a year ago.
I'm glad you're not one of those people who try to tell me that Charlize Theron is African American.
As an aside, I have seen Italians whose skin color is close to mine. Real Italians.............
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