^^That sentiment seems to exist in Portugal as well, when I was in the airport in Porto, the buffoon airport officer asked us where we had stayed. We told him we were in Lisbon, and he felt the need to express how much he disliked people from that region, because of "different culture". To an outsider, the culture seemed fairly the same to me.
The guy in Porto sort of looked like that Sicilian guy in that video, actually.
In terms of phenotype, Sardinians are darkest people in Italy. Perhaps the high amount of EEF in both Sardinians and Iberians can partly explain why they look as dark, or are darker than some Southern Italians. Despite being genetically "North" of Northern Italians:
At any rate, this isn't a sociology thread, so lets get back on topic.
At no time did I assume that tanning was in any way specific to Sicilians - I even mentioned that pigment alleles are a small part of the genome. Regardless of the total genome, whether more or less south, the tanning capacity seems to exist throughout southern Europe - it would risk including all western Europe. The purpose was not to imply that Sicilians are darker - on the contrary, I reaffirmed that the issue of pigmentation is a minority in the genotype. I have been to Iberia, France, Bergamo and other Western countries and in all of them I have seen white and tanned people. I believe that the phenotypic difference between north and south of Italy is more related to the color of eyes and hair, but in terms of tanning response all south / west of Europe - I think outside the British - have. There is absolutely no demerit in that. I don't understand why some people are sensitive to the topic.
It makes no evolutionary sense to expect southern Europeans to be as pale as northern ones - regardless of whether they are in Iberia, Italy, Greece or any other southern region