Sardanians/Sicillians?

[Slycooper]

When someone asks you what you are do you say italian or Sardanian/Sicillian?

[Sikeliot]

Sicilian-American, and if they say "What's that?" like an idiot then I say "It's a kind of Italian-American, but we're a bit unique."

[Slycooper]

Do you have any Portuguese in you?

[Sikeliot]

Yes. I am just referring to how I address the Sicilian side of my family. I just say "Portuguese" to refer to that side of my family, without making the same regional distinction.

[askra]

It depends on the context, for example when i travelled last years and i said to be italian, people laughed making jokes about the ex italian PM Berlusconi and the Bunga-Bunga :picard1:, so i decided to say that i'm first of all sardinian, and the reaction of people was totally different, they made me the compliments and they said to envy me due to the place where i live...this is referred only for Europeans, because sardinia in Europe is a well known holiday destination, while when i went in North America, and i said i'm sardinian, nobody knew where is located the island , so i said to be italian.
A good thing to be sardinian and that i can dissociate me from Italy in some unpleasant occasions. :D

[MarceloBielsa]

generally sicilian

[Anusiya]

generally sicilian

Αγαθοκλής ο Συρακούσιος! :thumb001::D

[MarceloBielsa]

Αγαθοκλής ο Συρακούσιος! :thumb001::D

Greeks and sicilians same blood :thumb001:

[Sikeliot]

Greeks and sicilians same blood :thumb001:

Indeed. :thumb001:A Greek woman once told me that Sicilians are very close especially to Peloponnesian Greeks and to Cretans.

[Peyrol]

It depends.

[Prince Carlo]

Neapolitan -> Italian.

[Slycooper]

bump

[Sikeliot]

There is a new Sicilian American poster here who (if I know him at all) says he is Sicilian and not Italian.

[Slycooper]

There is a new Sicilian American poster here who (if I know him at all) says he is Sicilian and not Italian.

That makes no sense though. Technically still Italian.

[Sikeliot]

That makes no sense though. Technically still Italian.

How does it not make sense?

Are Tibetans Chinese?
Are Puerto Ricans American? (They've been part of the US almost as long as Sicily has been Italian)

[Slycooper]

How does it not make sense?

Are Tibetans Chinese?
Are Puerto Ricans American? (They've been part of the US almost as long as Sicily has been Italian)

What makes anyone Italian then?

[Sikeliot]

What makes anyone Italian then?

That they are part of Italy.
I have no issue with calling myself Italian American or saying "Sicilians are Italian".

But they are Sicilian FIRST, Italian SECOND. At least to me.

[Peyrol]

That makes no sense though. Technically still Italian.

Even Balotelli is tecnically ''a lombard''...

[Slycooper]

Even Balotelli is tecnically ''a lombard''...

How?

[Toretto]

Sicilian