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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You can tell an Italian by them m9ving their hands all over the place while they speak italian.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago

What’s wrong spaghetti boy, can’t type “moving” without making huge hand motions? Good luck responding with your thumb and middle fingers touching the entire time.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I need a Venn diagram of whiteness to really get this. Or a scale of some sort

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 33 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Anglo-Saxon was the ~~top~~ only real white. Catholics were hated (so most of the mainland European). Irish were put into indentured servitude. Italians were essentially black. Ukrainians were slavs and were an entirely different species of humans, subhumans really. Same with Polish.

https://youtu.be/fxHWtw_GZIk

[–] match@pawb.social 3 points 16 hours ago

Anglo-Saxon was the only real white

Germanized propagandist!

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 37 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

There are certain ethnicities that although white, have been marginalized and scapegoated for societies problems in the past. Groups like Italians and Irish people were considered a lower-tier of white people, just above black people, especially in the US in the 18-1900's.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Italians and Irish people were considered a lower-tier of white people

I'm pretty sure they weren't considered any tier of "white" at that time.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

It's why the US has St Patrick's Day and Christopher Columbus Day. They needed to prove their worth to earn "whiteness"