Why do immigrants think they are the real deal?

[Hektor12]

Indeed. Many north Italians don't consider the ones from the Mezzogiorno as equals so imagine the ones from Brooklyn lol

Are north Italians patent holders of the Italianness?

[Blondie]

Indeed. Many north Italians don't consider the ones from the Mezzogiorno as equals so imagine the ones from Brooklyn lol

My sister had north italian boyfriend and he often insulted south italians he called them beggars/gypsies etc.

[Hektor12]

My sister had north italian boyfriend and he often insulted south italians he called them beggars/gypsies etc.

In 1990 World Cup, Naples supported Argentina against Italy and Italy lost the match. (: https://inside.fifa.com/news/dia-que...entina-2278635

[Incal]

Are north Italians patent holders of the Italianness?

Don't know about that but many don't consider terroni the same as them as well as you don't consider kurds to be like you even when you share the same country.

[Hektor12]

Don't know about that but many don't consider terroni the same as them as well as you don't consider kurds to be like you even when you share the same country.

Of course they have differences but in the end theyre people coming from same origin, like Balkan Turks, Anatolian Turks, etc. Kurds are Kurds, theyre different ethnicity living in my country.

[Mopi Licinius Crassus]

My sister had north italian boyfriend and he often insulted south italians he called them beggars/gypsies etc.

Does he post on Italicroots?

he sounds like Bande nere

[Incal]

Of course they have differences but in the end theyre people coming from same origin, like Balkan Turks, Anatolian Turks, etc. Kurds are Kurds, theyre different ethnicity living in my country.

Well, many from il nord don't seem to give a fuck about that.

[Hithaeglir]

Probably because of the immense experience they have received and the risk that comes with immigration. It takes far more skill to make it somewhere abroad than in a familiar environment where everything is spoon-fed.

[Voskos]

For a while I thought this was an exclusive phenomena with Latin America émigrés (particularly chicanos) but lately I've learned it's a worldwide thing, the other day I found this Italian meme:



So what makes immigrants (or what's worse, their offspring) think they are the real deal (most can't even speak the language lol) compared to the originals who remain and live in the motherland? Cognitive problems? Psi issues? Drugs? What?

I guess one of the reasons is they often represent something more ancestral than the actual population of their country of origin(which itself mixes with new waves of migrants, assimilated ethnicities etc). For example Pontic Greeks speak the most ancestral variety of Greek there is. Immigrants are like population isolates of some sort.

[BrandenburgGaming]

For a while I thought this was an exclusive phenomena with Latin America émigrés (particularly chicanos) but lately I've learned it's a worldwide thing, the other day I found this Italian meme:



So what makes immigrants (or what's worse, their offspring) think they are the real deal (most can't even speak the language lol) compared to the originals who remain and live in the motherland? Cognitive problems? Psi issues? Drugs? What?

i see 2 reasons:
1. its not getting shamed, more so its even being encouraged through immigrant culture
2. a lot of immigrants are dysgenic as fuck. The few that are at least not a drain on the economy are still utter opportunists/egoists who will leave for a better country the moment it pays more. Im probably not the only one who is aware of quite negative immigrant groups but then gets along quite well with the people of the country that theyre originally from. Turks are an extreme example for me, one of the worst immigrant groups, but really nice in their own country