Italian

1) A person that was either brought up in Italy or was born from parents that came from said country. Usually Italians are depicted as lazy, greasy tanned people that move around on Vespa Scooters in American movies but this trend was inspired by the habits of the first communities of Italian immigrants that established in the states between the last half of the 1800's and the first half of the 19000's, when people who left their home country were usually poor: iln fact, they either come from Southern Italy, where people at that time, usually sported typically Mediterranean traits, or from an agricultural background in Northern Italy, which meant that they used to farm the land under direct sunlight, which caused their skin to get tanned (and that's where the tendency of thinking they are not white most Americans have came from).
Italians are on average very different in culture and habits compared to their Italo-American counterparts that are third-plus generation immigrants and their outer appearance is not always Mediterranean ( because people from Northern Italy, more similar to the rest of Central Europeans in regard of their looks, started having more contacts with Southern Italians after the main highway of the At was built).
Italians are tendentially associated with exquisite cuisine, Mafia, laughable politicians, bad traffic, good looks, fine shoes and fashion, cool cars and marvellous art and extremely hot people.

2) Language spoken in Italy/ by Italian people.

1) "Jeez! I'm impressed by how American and British cities are packed with Italians: that's really impressive man!" "Good for us man! That means there's plenty of hot Italian chicks to hit on!"

2) "Hey, mi sapresti dire dov'è la fermata dell'autobus piú vicuna?"
"Her... Sorry dude, I don't speak Italian".

by Tan_ge_rine March 23, 2019

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Italians

A European ethnicity that is distinctly Mediterranean and therefore carries a phenotype similar to people from Spain, Greece, the Middle East, and northern Africa. This means that Italians can blend in a lot of places. Oddly enough, I noticed that many Italians have one eyebrow straighter (on the left) while the other is curved and sits lower down (on the right). Italians are generally considered attractive, although it is easy for us to get ugly with our hairy tendencies. People are usually on the short side (women 5'2"-5'6", men 5'8"-6'0"), although they were much shorter during the Roman times. According to a tour guide at the Flavian Ampitheater at Pozzuoli, a 5'5" man would be considered very tall and gladiator material. Northern and southern Italians tend to have distinctly different norms of appearance. Lighter skin, eyes, and hair are common in the north (think auburn hair with hazel eyes). Black hair, dark brown (or blue!) eyes, and midtone olive skin are common for the south. Southerners are generally shorter than their fellow northern countrymen. More on the Mediterranean people: search for "gracile mediterranid" for anthropological concepts specific to Italy.

Personality, behavior, and levels of maturity are relevant only on an individual basis and are separate from ethnicity.

Italians at first glance are commonly mistaken for:
•Iranians (especially in California)
•Greeks
•Armenians
•Hispanics

People all over the world love Italian culture but have no idea what Italians actually look like.

~Hispanic is not always the right answer~

by facewrinkles March 31, 2019

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