Which countries in the american continent have received highest italian cultural/ethnic influence?

[Peyrol]

Write your opinion.

[Aces High]

USA,Argentina,Brazil,Uruguay,Canada.

[leisitox]

Clearly Argentina

[Siberyak]

Argentina ??? Just a guess.

[Peyrol]

I personally would say Argentina

An Italian Argentine (Spanish and Italian: italo-argentino) is a person born in Argentina of Italian ancestry. It is estimated up to 28 million Argentines have some degree of Italian descent (up to 60% of the total population). Italians began arriving in Argentina in great numbers from 1857 to 1940, totaling 44.9% of the entire immigrant population; more than from any other country (including Spain at 31.5%), and this migratory flow continued to the 1960s, with Italy also having the most emigrants to Argentina for the decades 1980–2000. Because of this, Italian descent is likely the largest ethnic heritage of Argentina's population, with at least 45% of the population, almost 20 million.

Italian settlement in Argentina, along with Spanish settlement, formed the backbone of today's Argentine society. Argentine culture has significant connections to Italian culture in terms of language, customs and traditions.

According to Ethnologue, Argentina has more than 1,500,000 Italian speakers, making it the second most spoken language in the nation.[11] In spite of the great many Italian immigrants, the Italian language never truly took hold in Argentina, in part because at the time the great majority of Italians spoke only their local Italian dialect and not the unified, standard Italian. This prevented any expansion of the use of the Italian language as a primary language in Argentina. The similarity of the Italian dialects with Spanish also enabled the immigrants to assimilate, by using the Spanish language, with relative ease.

Italian immigration from the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century made a lasting and significant impact on the intonation of Argentina's vernacular Spanish. Preliminary research has shown that Rioplatense Spanish, and particularly the speech of the city of Buenos Aires, has intonation patterns that resemble those of Italian dialects (especially Neapolitan), and differ markedly from the patterns of other forms of Spanish.[12] This correlates well with immigration patterns as Argentina, and particularly Buenos Aires, had huge numbers of Italian settlers since the 19th century. According to a study conducted by National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina, and published in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (ISSN 1366-7289). The researchers note that this is a relatively recent phenomenon, starting in the beginning of the 20th century with the main wave of Southern Italian immigration.

Influence of italian on Buenos Aires dialect

Parlar - To speak (from the Italian parlare -to speak-)
Manyar - To know / to eat (from the Italian mangiare -to eat-)
Mina - Female (from the Italian femmina -Female-)
Laburar - To work (from Italian lavorare - to work-)
Fiaca - laziness (from the Italian fiacco -weak-)

[Peyrol]

An example of northern italian cultural influence on Argentine music.
Listen this piedmontese song...sound very argentine

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[2Cool]

Argentina is pretty much 50/50 Italian and Spanish (mostly from Galician I think). Most Argentinians are most probably mixed of both and with more Amerindian influence in West of the country.

[Peyrol]

Seems that, in order, the countries are:

1) Argentina
2) Uruguay
3) Brasil
4) U.S.A

Brazilians of Italian descent 30-35,000,000 (~18% of country population)
Argentines of Italian descent 22,000,000 (~51%)
Americans of Italian descent 18,900,000 (~8%)
Italian-French 5,000,000 (~9%)
Uruguayans of Italian descent 1,600,000 (~50%)
Canadian people of Italian descent 1,500,000 (~4.5%)
Venezuelans of Italian descent 900,000 (~3,5%)
Australians of Italian descent 870,000 (4%)
Peruvian people of Italian descent 860,000 (<3%)
Belgians of Italian descent 250,000 (~2,5%)
Chileans of Italian descent 160,000 (~ 1%)

But, in absolute numbers, Brasil, Argentina and U.S.A

[Anthropologique]

US, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Canada.

[Aces High]

I personally would say Argentina

Juan Peron was from Sardegna and his original name was Perez.....