Europeans, how important is being "European" to your ethnicity

[Tacitus]

Wow italian americans sound racist af. I bet the Italian on here are proud of that though.

Spare me. The older generations wanted their children/grandchildren to marry Italian, and they didn't like it if they did otherwise whether they were Irish, or Jewish, or Hispanic. My grandmother doesn't care for Irish people, does that make her a racist?

[JohnSmith]

Well there's less of Lebanese people than irish people or jews in America. If there were as much Lebanese people as jews in America, they'd marry leb Christians more.

I have no idea why you say this, I am Italian and Irish ,,,and Italians and Irish are culturally more similar to each other than to Lebanese. Italians and Irish grown up in the say areas and went to the same church.

[Iltirbas]

Americans seem to have a hard time trying to understand that outside the main European cities (London, Paris, Berlin and the rest of Europe's capital cities to a lesser extent), Europe is still way more homogeneous than the US as a whole is, especially if one looks at the 'ethnic' breakdown instead of the racial one. In a given mid-sized American town you can have families originating from all over the world living on the same street, while this is unheard of in most of Europe.

A Russian who has never ventured outside Eastern Europe has probably never interacted with a Spaniard in real life; similarly, a Bulgarian person living in some 50k inh. town has most likely never come across a Dane - just random examples not to be taken literally. Since Sicily has been brought up: a quick search brings back a Wikipedia article that states that the island is 96.5% Sicilian (and other Italian) and 3.5% immigrants: quite telling figures.

[Dick]

I have no idea why you say this, I am Italian and Irish ,,,and Italians and Irish are culturally more similar to each other than to Lebanese. Italians and Irish grown up in the say areas and went to the same church.

DID YOUR PARENTS MARRY BECAUSE THEY ARE BOTH CATHOLIC?

AND BTW NOT EVERY ITALIAN HERE IS CATHOLIC. SOME ARE EVEN PROTESTANTS OR JEHOVAS WITNESSES

[Sikeliot]

I have no idea why you say this, I am Italian and Irish ,,,and Italians and Irish are culturally more similar to each other than to Lebanese. Italians and Irish grown up in the say areas and went to the same church.

In Ireland and southern Italy? Doubtful.

[Sikeliot]

Spare me. The older generations wanted their children/grandchildren to marry Italian, and they didn't like it if they did otherwise whether they were Irish, or Jewish, or Hispanic. My grandmother doesn't care for Irish people, does that make her a racist?

Actually, I think Italian Americans were racist to blacks, Puerto Ricans, etc.

[JohnSmith]

DID YOUR PARENTS MARRY BECAUSE THEY ARE BOTH CATHOLIC?

AND BTW NOT EVERY ITALIAN HERE IS CATHOLIC. SOME ARE EVEN PROTESTANTS OR JEHOVAS WITNESSES

I am sure it mattered somewhat. Many Irish and Italians are very white trash and live in the same areas. They are both usually catholic and historical Racist against blacks. Look at Boston and NY Firefighters they are Irish and Italians.

[Myanthropologies]

I have no idea why you say this, I am Italian and Irish ,,,and Italians and Irish are culturally more similar to each other than to Lebanese. Italians and Irish grown up in the say areas and went to the same church.

Maybe because Italian Americans were United in discrimination with the irish, but in Europe that's not the case at all

[щрбл]

why would Italians feel close to Lebanese?

OP's wet dream of inclusiveness?

[Myanthropologies]

Spare me. The older generations wanted their children/grandchildren to marry Italian, and they didn't like it if they did otherwise whether they were Irish, or Jewish, or Hispanic. My grandmother doesn't care for Irish people, does that make her a racist?

Yes it does