re: Italian vs. Sicilian

Having spent time in Italy and Sicily, I can matter of fact state that Italian women > than Sicilian women. And it isn’t even close.
No offense.

I wish I could downvote this twice.

Proud Sicilian and Italian American here.

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None of my friends seem to have much interest in the background influences, or how we became to be. It is really saddening.

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Don’t come after me here
But it seems to be a thing more in the north (what I’ve found)
I could not give two shits of my heritage or where my ancestors came from
I’m born here, so were my parents, theirs and theirs

Up here, you got 4th and 5th generation Italians, Irish, Greeks, Polish etc acting like they just came off the boat and using it as a conversation piece
“Oh that’s a great last name, where is that from?”
“Uhhh Charlotte?”

There is a lot of Berber DNA in Sicily and Southern Italy. The Berbers were a very interesting group.

LINK
You can see the women of Morocco, Algeria and Sicily look very similar.

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A lot of Sicilians immigrated to Louisiana in the late 19th/early 20th century.

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Independence is loaded with Sicilians.

This has been great thread and most-informative.

My mother's grandparents immigrated from Palermo, Sicily through Ellis Island and they settled in Baltimore, where they raised my grandmother and her siblings. So said, possible mafia connections back then, because they lived very well considering their occupations, and I remember my grandmother saying she was very thankful for having plenty to eat during the Great Depression.

Granny married a Texan and they wound up settling in Baton Rouge, where they raised my mother.

If we were at her house on Sundays, she would cook old school chicken cacciatore.

On a different note: Sicilians were actively recruited to immigrate directly to Vermilion parish to work the fields once slavery was abolished. They were considered second-class citizens and also considered non-white.A few names are Russo, Piazza, Guarino.

Abbeville held it's first Sicilian Immigrant festival last year. Not sure if they did it this year due to covid19.

Anyone’s family name get changed while coming through Ellis Island? My mom has done extensive genealogy on our family. Went and actually visited the village my ggranmother came from. She found the paperwork from Ellis island and somehow the last name got changed. Not by much but it was definitely not the name my ggrandfather was birthed with. Of course it was rumored that there were mafia ties and that you couldn’t talk about uncle mike but I think it was folk lore. My family settled in NYC and I think some distant cousins still live there but my close family got to New Orleans in the 9th ward and that is where my mother grew up.