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Originally Posted by destroycreate
Also, most Italian-Americans in NYC are Sicilian, which if we're honest is as far from stereotypical white culture you can get (gold necklaces, machismo, mama n' pasta, comparatively dark features, loud/animated). Go ask anywhere in Northern or Mid Italy and they'd agree since their mentality is very different. It's arguably more influenced by Middle Eastern/North African culture than it is anything else.
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This is certainly true of Mass and RI Italians, who are mostly Sicilian. I didn't meet a Northern Italian until I started working in Japan, with some Milanese and Genoese clients and coworkers. Plus a guy from Naples, who seemed much more like the guys I went to high school with. Naples is traditionally considered Southern, no? But maybe more in a Virginia / NC way, whereas Sicily is Deep South Alabama?
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