St. Patrick’s Day parade cancled in florida because of anti-inclusivity law (DEI)

  • Logi@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Genova is in modern day Italy, so if he really was Genovese then yeah, he was Italian.

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      14 hours ago

      Italy is a modern invention, like 20th century modern. That’s be like telling a Prussian that they’re just German minus a hundred years. Early colonist’s considered themselves British, would you argue that they were actually American?

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        Yes, but as in 19th century modern. The war of unification (when the Savoy’s conquered Italy and Sicily out of Piemonte) was happening in the 1880s.

        I’m honestly puzzled why you care so much about what a region was called when the person lived there, vs what we call it today. There are nuances but nothing to get so worked up about.

        I’d much rather point out that it’s not at all clear that he was Genovese at all. And that “Columbus’s House” in Genova is an absolute scam.

      • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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        6 hours ago

        TIL my ancestors weren’t Polish, they were Ukrainian. Or maybe they were both or neither, as neither country existed when they emigrated. They spoke Polish but emigrated from Galicia. /s

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          I can’t remember the exact historic context*, but the joke goes that Old Sol liked to boast that he’d been born in Poland, then became Austrian, then German, and ended up a citizen of the soviet Union, all without ever leaving his hometown.

          *yes, I’m an ignorant american.

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          Nononono, there can be only one label and were going to let some random online American decide what it is.