QUESTION TO THE SICILIAN MEMBERS: who do you feel is more friendly to you?

**~~Sikeliot~~** · 02-23-2015, 09:10 PM

Originally Posted by Tiberio

So basically like me.

What if we are related??

**Dylan** · 02-23-2015, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by allalor

About your grandma, where did she come from? It really matters.

My family for example comes from a little village in the mountains that borders Molise and that's crossed by a "tratturo", an ancient road used, back in the days, by Abruzzese shepherds leading their flocks to Apulia. Transhumance left a huge impact on the village and its people in society, culture and language, and as a consequence of that I feel closer to Apuliese or Molisani or Lucanians than to Marchesans, even though I was born in Pescara.
On the other hand we have another abruzzese on this forum, Foxxy, who feels more in tune (correggimi se sbaglio Foxxy) with Central Italians than to Southern Italians 'cause she comes from l'Aquila province next to Latium.

Abruzzo is neither a totally Central nor a totally Southern region, and as a matter of fact we define ourselves "centro-meridionali" more than anything.

Pescosansonesco and later Chieti, but in the US for most of her life. I never met her parents since they died before I was born, but I know they were the ones who influenced her to have these minor prejudices through what my mom tells me. I know she had at least one grandmother from Molise and her father was from Marche. I still have family living in Marche and also one family member in Ferrara, but I don't think I have any remaining family left in Abruzzo.

and sorry about my earlier question. I can understand how you feel about this since people often talk a similar way about white americans in relation to african-americans. It can be very annoying when some Europeans act like all my ancestors owned slaves when none of them even lived in the US during that time period, let alone be that 1% of the population that was actually rich enough to do that. Although this obviously much different, it has similar qualities.