Angela
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Benzgolv, its still used where I live, Napolitani will always answer back "Napole e gia fatt'" in dialect of course.
Sile I mistakenly realized that it seemed I was talking about my cousins livornese husband, I was talking about my cousins husband from the south, so it would be teron.
Angela, I know we had we our differences before and I don't want an argument, I'll just say us diaspora should count as well as there are more Italians outside of Italy than living in Italy, plus some of us including myself are dual citizens.
Whatever the outcome is for the referendum us Italians got to stick by it and hope for the prosperity of Italy.
Azzurro, I'm assuming you're second or third generation, yes? In that case, it's very nice that you are proud of your heritage and are attached to the country of your ancestors' birth. However, I'm afraid that Italian-Canadians, and Italian-Americans, and Italian-Australians, are not Italians as far as I'm concerned and as far as many actual Italians are concerned. Even more so when they're on record as wanting their ancestral regions to secede.
I'm not at all in favor of diaspora Italians, who are only connected to Italy by genetics, but who don't speak the language, don't understand the peculiarities of the politics, and aren't living there to experience the consequences (or being called upon to serve in the military) being allowed to vote in Italian elections. I'm sorry, but that's how I feel.
I also think that people whose only experience with Italy is second or third hand through parents and grandparents and a visit or two on vacation are not qualified to make vast pronouncements on Italian society. I believe a little humility is in order.
Furthermore, although this doesn't apply to you, I will never understand how people who would never use the n-word feel empowered to toss pejoratives at other Italians.
None of this is meant as a personal attack against you of any kind. I hope you understand that.
Now, perhaps we can keep to the facts of the issue.