#this whole post is lead-up to the tl;dr tbh I saw an x reader girlie making him use italian pet names and I was like

[agnesandhilda]

I’m showing my ass wrt to what kind of cobra kai posting I’ve seen on this site by saying this but daniel larusso is NOT as italian as you’re depicting him. chances are he’s third generation at least and as someone who is also third generation I’m just gonna say that while I think his sense of connection to italian-ness as a concept is sincere it’s, like, if he spoke any italian I would be surprised. his cultural identity comes from his mom whose understanding of that identity came from her parents and they’re all serious about it but generational drift and assimilation happen and that understanding gets more muddled/becomes more of a simulacrum over time. a copy of a copy. which is fine like that’s how culture works but people lean towards writing him as italian instead of italian-american and well I simply don’t buy that. and did you forget him hitting kyler with a microaggression a minute when they first met he’s the kind of white man who awkwardly brings up being italian whenever a person of color mentions experiencing racism because he thinks it’s a valid comparison but it is not

 tl;dr this man is NOT a latin lover. he wishes he were but he is not!