How come Italians on this website are telling themselves that Ariana Grande looks ethnic bcuz tans

[Desperado]

she is not even on the exotic side from her sicilian ancestry lol
exotic sicilians looks pseudo MENA or jews, she doesnt

and that's also part of the reason why I love this forum

[Heather Duval]

and that's also part of the reason why I love this forum

this forum would go crazy when they found out her sicilian father could pass in northern europe

[Percivalle]

Makes sense. Italian-Americans ceased being Italian, except for maybe those still speaking Italian and even then they're somewhat foreign probably. I dunno. It would make sense you still feel kinship with them due to a shared language, but not without some kind of divide due to living in different countries with different state cultures.

Why an Italian should feel kinship with Ariana Grande? Because some of her grandparents were born in Italy? Frankly it's too little.

no it doesnt make sense
madonna and lady gaga are italian descent and way more popular in italy than ariana
ariana most suscefull song went #12 at italy chart while madonna and gaga has many #1 there

Madonna and Lady Gaga are popular in Italy not because they are of Italian descent but because they are part of the Music world's star system.

[Dandelion]

Why an Italian should feel kinship with Ariana Grande? Because some of her grandparents were born in Italy? Frankly it's too little.

Not to Ariana Grande, but for instance SardiniaAtlantis here. Italian-Americans who still speak Italian and still feel connected to the Old Country.

[Percivalle]

Not to Ariana Grande, but for instance SardiniaAtlantis here.

SardiniaAtlantis speaks Italian, and he is pro-Italy more than the other two users from Sardinia.

[Dandelion]

SardiniaAtlantis speaks Italian, and he is pro-Italy more than the other two users from Sardinia.

I'm aware. According to survey conducted in Sardinia, the majority is very autonomist over there far more than a Tuscan feeling first Tuscan, then Italian. Mens-Sarda still speaks Sardinian too, which is awesome in its own right to me. Many Sardinians can't, they just understand it. At least, that's what I learned from a Sardinian person.

While lurking, I've also noticed him speaking Sardinian and (other) Italians responding in Italian, this while Sardinian is quite distinct from the latter. But Romance language don't fall far from the Latin tree they came from. So it makes sense it's possible, especially in written language.

[Heather Duval]

Why an Italian should feel kinship with Ariana Grande? Because some of her grandparents were born in Italy? Frankly it's too little.

Her grandparents are American-Born. Only her great-grandparents were born in Italy according to this information:

On her father’s side, Ariana is the granddaughter of Anthony Vincent Charles Butera (the son of Charles A. Butera and Marie) and Florence P. Citrano. Ariana’s great-grandfather Charles was born in New Jersey, to Italian parents, Antonino Butera and Magherita Azzara, from Menfi, Provincia di Agrigento, Sicily. Marie was Italian. Florence was likely the daughter of Italian immigrants. The surnames “Butera” and “Citrano” are Sicilian.

On her mother’s side, Ariana is the granddaughter of Frank Anthony Grande (the son of Antonio “Anthony” Grande and Felmino “Philomena”) and Marjorie. Frank was born in New York, to Italian parents. Antonio was born, c. 1900, the son of Raffaela (b. 1876) and Sabato Grande (b. July 1877, in Lanciano, Province of Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy), and moved to the U.S. in May 1903.
http://ethnicelebs.com/ariana-grande

[Percivalle]

I'm aware. According to survey conducted in Sardinia, the majority is very autonomist over there for more than a Tuscan feeling first Tuscan, then Italian. Mens-Sarda still speaks Sardinian too, which is awesome in its own right to me. Many Sardinians can't, they just understand it. At least, that's what I learned from a Sardinian person.

In Italy we are all, at some extent, autonomist and autarkic. In words.

[Heather Duval]

Her ancestors are from Province of Chieti and Provincia di Agrigento

[irishwinner]

Keep in mind that Sicilians are the "white" people who have sickle cell anemia problems. This stems from the fact that Sicilians average around 1.5% sub-Saharan African DNA. Although to be fair to Sicilians Andalausians have even more sub-Saharan DNA than they do. Then there are the Portugese, who have the most negro DNA of any Europeans.