are sicilians considered white?
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yes theyre italian and italians are white some white people are darker my moms italian and she has blond hair n blue eyes
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Catholic.  A lot of Italian, latins and whites are Catholic.
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Caucasian is another way of saying someone is white. If you're Indian (from India), you're not white - you're Indian. Even if you were born here you wouldn't be Caucasian. You can't change your skin color (unless you're Michael Jackson)...
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White (also White people, White race or Whites) is a term used for a certain ethnic group or racial classification of people. Though literally implying light-skinned, "White" has been used in different ways at different times and places. Like other common words for the human ethnicities, its precise definition is somewhat unclear.\n\nA common connotation to the various definitions of "White" is that the term refers to people descended from European and adjacent areas, such as North Africa and the Middle East. Regions and countries that are today predominantly light skinned include all the countries of Europe, the Middle East, North America, parts of South America, Siberia, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nThe most recent United States Census (2000) defined the 'White' race as follows: "The term White refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa." It includes people who indicated their race or races as "White" or wrote in entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Israeli, Syrian, Lebanese, Portuguese, or Polish."\n\nThe term has always had various definitions and interpretations at different times and places. Across the globe, and especially throughout the Western Hemisphere, a person's inclusion or exclusion from the the "White" group has been affected by past or present colloquial, scientific and legal understandings, including definitions based for such purposes as censuses, anti-miscegenation laws, affirmative action, racial quotas. All these, and the groups they involve, are explored throughout the article.\n\nThe need for operational definitions\n\nLike aesthetic terms such as beauty and balance, religious terms such as sin and grace, and political terms such as liberal and conservative, the terms White and Black reflect something important in the minds of those who use them, even if they cannot be defined objectively so that their application can be independently tested. The claim that any specific individual is Black or White cannot be falsified, so the concept can have no scientific value unless some operational definition of how one determines that a person is White is given. In scientific studies, more precise definitions than "White" or "Black" are usually provided. For example, in the large collaborative study of the HapMap which includes Whites and Blacks among four populations being examined, the terms used are "whites of Western and Northern European descent residing in Utah", and "Yoruba people, residing in Ibadan, Nigeria".\n\nThere is no single, universally-accepted, biological trait that allows a yes/no determination of whether a person is White or not. The operational definitions used in scientific work are not "absolute" either, but rather vary in specificity according to the purposes of the study or of the hypotheses being tested, and are chosen partly as a matter of convenience and cost. The operations, for example, could range from how the subject answers questions about himself on a survey, to the response of a light meter held against the skin with a cut-off meter-reading specified, to which of several ancestry-informative markers are present in the genes of the individual. These may, of course, be used alone or in combination.\n\nA problem with the appearance definition alone is that, as routinely demonstrated in college-level cultural-anthropology classes, "racial" appearance is partly in the eye of the beholder. The same individual seen as White by a Cuban can be seen as Black by an American. Furthermore, such perceptions change over time. Appearance alone is not easy to quantify or judge with complete precision, and can, of course, be deceiving.\n\nA problem with the self-identity definition alone is that there are often advantages and privileges among racial categories, so people will sometimes choose one or another
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Most African Americans do have white blood in them because over the centuries they have gradually bred with Caucasian people.\n\nSo no it dosn't surprise me.
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maybe.  I don't think that whitey existed back then, so they were probably either black or brown!
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I'm Italian - actually Sicilian - so here goes - my ancestors got alot of these when they first immigrated and then again during WWII\n\nLoud\nobnoxious\nIgnorant\nOverweight\ncriminals - bookies, hitman, mafioso, etc.\nfacists\ncommunists\nilliterate\nkillers - (WWII reference)\nthieves\ndirty - meaning lack of personal hygiene
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I must Say I have met a few Italian and Sicilians and both have are very cool..i must give to them there woman are sexy.. but if anybody tells you wrong.. they are thinking backwards there county is beautiful and there Food is SO Good. The Best!!!
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Well, people were judged by their appearance. So a dark Cuban, Peurto Rican, Dominican, etc would have been considered black so they would have experience the same discrimination that blacks had to deal with. However, if you talk about a real light Cuban, Spaniard, Argetine, Puerto Rican, they would have  been considered white, i.e. if they chose to obstain from speaking Spanish,etc and assimilating into the mainstream. \n So, only the really light Latinos would experience less racism then their darker compatriots.\n  In the 1940s, Puerto Ricans fought in integrated units during the Second World War, compared to blacks and  Asians which fought in segregated units.
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anglos in this country don't have much culture.  most ethnic groups have been discriminated against in the united states.  scorsese did a brilliant movie about the english and irish called gangs of new york.  i think most people think the black market and mafia are engrained in italian culture even though italians in the united states resorted to them because they were shut out of white peoples culture.  italians don't forget as easily.  italy also has a culture.  the english have never been big on culture and culture in the united states is non-existant.  most italians i know dont consider themselves "whites" -- perhaps that is even why you put it in parentheses.  i am french and slovene and always check "other".  white is something i don't care to be.
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I AM ITALIAN AND I LIKE WHITE GALS .?
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Quite a few Argentines are European (German, Italian for example) by ethnicity.
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If you're white and this is your question, then is this case: yes.
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everyone on here is basically saying the same thing and they are right.  however if you are asking this you may still be unclear so i will give you some examples.\nRace: Caucasian\nCulture/Ethnic Group is Italian\nThey have the same racial background as other Caucasian but there beliefs on family, food and living are different because of their culture.  they celebrate different holidays or the same holidays in different ways.  Racially they are the same as French, English or White Americans but they have a different set of traditions
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ummmmm....technically speaking... aren't all White Americans immigrants?
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I don't know about circassians but caucasians are white people.