#Remember that Italian American woman who couldn't spell Margherita to save her life claiming that pizza was invented in the US in the 1900s

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Do you even know what you’re talking about? Because I’m quite certain that you don’t.

The majority of Italian immigrants to Brazil were from Northern Italy, not from the South.

Early immigrants to Argentina were also from the North and the number of immigrants coming from the South only increased after 1900.

“99.99% of Italian immigrants were from Southern Italy” is factually wrong: 70% of Italian immigrants to the United States were from Southern Italy.

Fun fact: over 4 million Italian-Brazilians speak Italian or Talian and Italian is the second most studied language in Argentina after English, yet only half a million of USians can speak Italian today, despite 25 millions of them claiming to be of Italian descent.

Do you really believe that Italian-American culture is just “Southern Italian” culture, and that every Italian saying that it’s not is just a bitter Northener? Because I can assure you that the cultures of southern Italian regions are quite different from Italian-American culture, even if some of its aspect may have their roots in actual Italian culture. You don’t need to be born north of the province of Viterbo to see that. I don’t understand why it’s so hard for USians of Italian descent to accept the fact that a huge part of what they consider “authentic” Italian culture is actually just Italian-American culture and that there’s a difference between being an Italian citizen and being a US citizen of Italian descent.

Also, I have never seen an Italian-Brazilian or an Italian-Argentinian claim to be the same as an Italian from Italy or to be more Italian than them, unlike many Italian-Americans (including those who don’t speak a word of Italian or of any Italian language).

No Italian has a problem with Italian-Americans being proud of and celebrating their heritage. What Italians do find irritating is Italian-Americans claiming that they’re the same as Italian citizens because of some nebulous concept of “Italian blood” and that their American traditions are more authentic than actual Italian traditions.

god some many of you have the dumbest takes on american culture and its obvious you have zero clue what you're actually talking about