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What’s a third generation Italian migrant? Your family has been migrating for three generations? Or you’re just an American with an Italian great-grandparent?
by namdnay 5y ago
What’s a third generation Italian migrant? Your family has been migrating for three generations? Or you’re just an American with an Italian great-grandparent?
- 8note 5y agoI'd assume it means their primary language is Italian, and they basically only interact with other Americans who's great grand parents were Italian and primarily speak Italian. So like a snapshot of Italian culture as it was a few generations back like how Quebec is a snapshot of historic France and Newfoundland is a snapshot of england
- ricardobeat 5y agoMy great-grandparents migrated from Italy to Brazil. Is there a better way to phrase that? It's not a really strong identity, we don't cultivate the ancestry like Americans do, so unfortunately I don't speak the language, neither do most of the ~30M italian descendants in the south. The deeper into the countryside you go though, you start hearing old dialects of italian (and german).