I need to make few things clear, here, because obviously the people saying “italians are POC” haven’t ever opened a book about anthropology, etnography or genetics and biology.
- “Italians are POC” isn’t even a correct sentence in actual english (or italian, or whatever language you speak) because “italian” is a nationality, something which has a legal value, whether “POC” means “person of color”, which doesn’t even refers to one of the races recognized and codified in forensic anthropology or genetics.
- Italians are ITALIANS whether you are black, brown, white, yellow or whatever. You are ITALIAN if you live or lived in Italy, have italian descents or if you are born as one.
- We have POC italians, we have WHITE iatalians, but most of all we don’t categorize people using their skin color. That’s an AMERICAN thing, because USA have a different social situation.
- Italians are caucasic, african, asian, arabs, european, mediterranean… we have every single and different skin color type, and we don’t categorize ourselves as “POC” or “WHITE” we are ITALIANS. Mario Balotelli, who is a famous soccer player, is completely BLACK because he has african descents, and he’s 100% ITALIAN like El Shaarawy, who is another famous italian soccer player, who has egyptian descents, and like me. And i am white as a mozzarella because i have GERMAN descents.
- POC Italians want to be recognized as “ITALIANS” just like Italians with asian descents, arab descents etc. STOP speaking about racial issues on behalf of people who you DON’T represent. Moreover if you don’t know a single fucking thing about Italy, and its issues with integration and racism.
- We Italians, just like LOTS of European countries, are a mixture of different race and ethnicity. We are NOT just “POC” or “WHITE” we are LOTS OF DIFFERENT THINGS, and we are FUCKING PROUD of that. Stop erasing our history and our culture!
- Italy more than other European countries is a mixture of different ethnicities and races because we had been colonized and conquered by LOTS of different powerful countries in the past: Spain, France, Austria, Turkey etc. etc. there’s no PURE ITALIAN BLOOD, and we learnt it CLEARLY after the WWII, so PLEASE educate yourseld about that.
- Our society is based on what you wrongly call “white culture”, but it’s far from “white”. Lots of different immigration processes and conquests in the past build up what Italy is now and it’s, just like the italian population, a mixture with the contribution of lots of different etnicities.
- STOP TALKING BULLSHIT ABOUT WHAT IS /OUR/ HISTORY. You don’t know a single fucking shit, moreovernif you don’t realize EUROPEAN don’t reason with “race categories”; we reason considering only the “nationality” of a person, and we as ITALIANS consider ourselves “brothers” based on the fact we share the same country we are living in wether you are black, white, asian, arab or whatever.
- The Moors. People are saying Italy was conquered by “The Moors”, but “Moors” isn’t even an anthropological or ethnic definition. The “moors” are what european called “muslims” back in the past; and muslims were african, berber, european and arab.
We have had contacts with berbers, which ethnically speaking are not POC. SO SHUT THE FUCK UP, AND LEARN SOME FUCKING HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY BEFORE SPEAKING
- In the end: ITALIANS are NOT POC. Italians are black, white, brown, yellow… ITALIANS ARE ITALIANS.
…and for god’s sake, stop speaking on behalf of us italians. You talk a lot about oppression and racism, but you’re being the racist and xenophobe cunt here, talking on behalf of a population whichw tried for days this week to say YOU’RE WRONG.
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