Hello r/Italian and AverageCruffy

Hello everyone, this is my first post here in r/Italian.

I am Italian American. My great grandparents came to the United States from southern Italy to make a new life for themselves. As many have during the early 20th century.

You may be asking why am I telling you this? Who cares right?

I'm calling out u/AverageCruffy and his post how Italian Americans aren't Italian. About how Italian words were bastardized. And recipes destroyed.

Average scruffy this is for you.

To be clear, I'm not trying to prove or claim to be Italian. I'm Italian American.

As I already stated my great grandparents came here to make a better life for themselves . They faced racism, poverty and they worked hard to build a life here.

Italian wasn't taught down to my parents because it was better to be as American as you can be to combat racism. My grandparents gave sown American names for the same reason.

Traditions were passed down from the Italy they left, not the Italy you were born into and currently reside in. But none the less you have those same exact roots but your family went a different path. Your great grandfather could've moved to America and you'd be one of us. But your not.

Now I/AverageCruffy how dare you insult people who came from your country to build new life. How dare you cast judgement on a people who you do not even know. You don't know our history. But we all know that we do share history and heritage. It's nothing more but a different branch of culture.

I have family who still have hoises in Italy. I'm very close to real Italian culture. It is different than how I grew up. I won't question that. But it doesn't change how I grew up how all Italian Americans or Italians living abroad and the traditions that were past down to us.

The point being here is not only are you just simply talking down to stupid Americans but your talking down to our heritage, our history just because it differs than yours.

You're Traditions are not superior to anyone's. You're a racist, your rant was racist. Thank God most Italians I know from Italy aren't like you.

Ok. Now that that's over with.

Hello everyone. I'm looking forward to learning and growing as I try to reclaim what was lost in my heritage.

I'm currently learning the Italian language and learn more about modern Italian culture