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74 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 29 Aug \ on: Nationality: You Belong to the State Politics_And_Law history

All four of my grandparents were Italian immigrants, but they didn't identify as Italian. They identified themselves from their region, even though Garibaldi had supposedly unified Italy.

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60 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 29 Aug

Interesting. My Italian grandparent, and that side of the family, did identify as Italian more than the region they came from.

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53 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 29 Aug

My guess is your grandparent was younger than mine. They came to the U.S. between 1910 and 1930

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39 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 29 Aug

That's when his family came, but he was actually the first one born in America.

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