I Don't Look White At All Iam Italian, Yet My Nationality Is Called White?

Question

ok.. iam 100% PURE italian on both sides, no one has ever called me white, both my parents and all my grand parents are italian, so is every one else in my family i have dark skin, i blend in with the mexicans, and iam not one at all, yes when i go fill out a survey i definately won't check off white,black,hispanic,asian,middle eastern cause i don't look like any of the following maybe hispanic or middle eastern BUT IAM NOT. so just write under it add more races please.

I know that italians have some african in them from when the moores where in italy at one point many years ago, iam southern italian, not from sicily but from the very far tip of the boot you can see sicily there, iam born and raised in CANADA.
Yet i can't figure what iam.

To who ever said because italy is in europe it means your caucasian for you're information Europe is a continent not a race.

To the person who said italians are kinda hispanic:
Italians have mixed with the spanish from spain, NOT the natives of mexico or south america..

Hispanic means spainish mixed with native indians of the americas.

Answer 1

My family is the same way, except Italian and Scottish. So when people ask me my heritage, it's European. That's what you are if you want to make it simple. Otherwise your heritage is Italian. But as far as race goes, you are Caucasian. Caucasian pertains to "1. a broad division of humankind covering peoples from Europe, Western Asia, and parts of India and North Africa. 2. White-skinned; of European origin 3. Relating to the region of the Caucasus in SE Europe". From the Oxford Dictionary.

Your nationality is Canadian, in case you've wondered that as well.

Answer 2

You can gain wealth or lose it, so class isn't fundamental. You can gain religious faith, or lose it, or change it, so religious faith isn't fundamental. But the race you are born to remains unchanged for as long as you live. There is no power in the universe that can change someone's race. Race, then, is the most fundamental division of mankind.

That being said, the hominid races don't exist in completely separate packages. There have been clines (racially mixed population zones) for millions of years, and there's always been a bit of hybridization. Nonetheless, you can identify the purer strains of each race if you know what to look for.

What to look for is seldom a single trait. For example, you can, in fact, make incorrect judgments if you only discriminate by skin colour.

The Black Africans and the Black Negritos of Panay are both dark skinned, but they are very wide apart in terms of FST genetic distance.

Likewise, although the cluster of European ethnicities are fairly close together in FST, the light-skinned Turks (who have nearly the same skin colour) are much farther away in terms of genetic distance.

In the absence of a laboratory to do racial discrimination tests, you have to rely of visual clues to estimate a person's race. Skin colour is a clue, but it isn't always a good one. Facial features, such as the size and shape of the nose, the slope of the forehead, the broadness or longness of the head, the size and degree of eversion of the lips, the breadth of the chin, the size of the teeth, and so on, provide other clues. The distribution of body fat, the overall height, the ratio of torso to arm length, and such, provide still more clues.

And you have to look at a multiplicity of clues, because, while each race has a norm (or an average) for each of the clues, there's also a distribution around that average.

Answer 3

That's because you live in a country where most people are of british acents. Just because you are darker then "British-descended" people doesn't means you are not white. Why do you use them as a reference? What did they make to be so special so that you use them as reference? Stop beeing submissive. You're white because you're Italian. Italians are very diverse, some are very white, some are darker, would be ridiculous to call some "white" and others "non-white".

Answer 4

You're Italian, that's your nationality; and your Canadian seeing how you are born and raised there. So you'd be an Italian Canadian.

White has to do with race, not nationality. If you don't feel you're White, then don't mark in down on forms and stuff. You can always put other.

Answer 5

OK, how to answer this. You are Italian, both parents were born there, etc etc, that part I get. That part is your nationality. As to race, you may identify yourself as a white Italian, black Italian, mixed Italian, or not at all. As to identity, you may say that you are Indo-Italian, German-Italian, Polish-italian, Chinese-Italian, etc. As to your faith you might say that you are Jewish-Italian, Christian-Italian, Hindu-Italian, agnostic-Italian, etc.

My point is that being Italian does not automatically denote hair, skin color nor heritage, culture, or religion...all it tells me is that you were born in Italy.

Just because the world stereotypes does not make the stereotypical vision of an Italian woman true...and quite frankly, i am not sure which stereotype I am picturing, dark hair, dark eyes, olive skin, or blonde hair, blue eyes, pale skin, a combination of the two or Miss Italy 1996

Answer 6

hispanic in itself is an odd label in the dictionary its considered all spanish speaking people. (including the ones from spain) Some people dont even know of Hispaniola...lol

normally paperwork have..

white (non-hispanic)
black
hispanic
etc..

or
white
african american
latin american
etc..

its a silly label.. truely pointless and biased.
Some people are considered white in some forms and hispanic in others. most americans would assume a name means someones part mexican, and "latin americans" will call them gringo...
so trivial
Where your born then where your a legal resident should be what your labeled... by country not look or ancestory.
but could you imagine that form? it would be a long list to choose from... every recognized country in the world would have to be on it.

Answer 7

All the italians are white.
Our race is indoeuropea.
In USA and in Canada people don't know the history.
U are a bunch of silly ignorants

Answer 8

I understand your point. Me for instance I mark other for anyone who wants to ask. I am half black and half italian and that's what I claim. And I've always questioned the whole "white" thing.
They say caucasians are originally from the Caucas Mountains, I truly dont believe this. I think certain people were banished their for their wickedness and barbaric ways.
Basically speaking...
Italians are from Italy
Polish are from Poland....and so on.

The true white race are Germans...pls excuse me for my ignorance if this is not correct either.

Answer 9

Cau‧ca‧sian fits u perfectly see the definition below

1.Anthropology. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of one of the traditional racial divisions of humankind, marked by fair to dark skin, straight to tightly curled hair, and light to very dark eyes, and originally inhabiting Europe, parts of North Africa, western Asia, and India: no longer in technical use.

Answer 10

I am exactly like you except I am Greek!
I am 100% Greek.
But my skin color is also extremely dark and no where close to the white skin others have.
I do not consider myself White either,
When people ask all I say is i am European!
Greek-European!

If u do wanna talk u can message me if ud like