> The “making of Italians” has usually meant imposing northern Italian norms and language upon Southerners. Italian is not a northern but rather a central Ital

> The “making of Italians” has usually meant imposing northern Italian norms and language upon Southerners. Italian is not a northern but rather a central Italian language. > Can you give me the names of some Italian nationalist parties? Movimento Sociale Italiano, was a nationalist neofascist party that became Fratelli d’Italia, the current governing party. FdI gets more votes in the south than in the north. Lega is a weird beast, sometimes anti-southern now nationalist and anti-immigration. > I was told by my Sicilian family the only reason Sicily is a part of Italy is Garibaldis ship was blown off course during a storm. Was Garibaldi trying to annex Algeria and went off course? Your Sicilian family is not well versed in Italian history.