What race are they, they aren't white they aren't black they seem to be in between.
2006-11-17 06:21:29 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
That is actually quite a good question. The truth is that every group of people coming to America was classified as dirt when they first came over. The existing immigrants all put down whoever was new.
When racism became a black and white issue, all of those people suddenly became white. That is to say that all Europeans became white and so did the Polish people and the Hispanics.
We started to differentiate during the 1990s when racism finally started to ebb. That is when the Hispanics made a stand and declared that they are not white. Black people became confused, since there are many shades of black or is it really brown skin? Many black people still feel better about themselves if they have lighter coloured skin.
The truth of the matter is that race is meaningless. We are all people no matter what skin colour we are. Italians are olive complected much like Spaniards and Central and South Americans.
We should all spend more time developing friendships and less time concerning ourselves with skin colour.
Take care,
Troy
2006-11-17 06:31:42 · answer #1 · answered by tiuliucci 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They are considered white people of the human race!
2006-11-17 14:23:33 · answer #2 · answered by wish I were 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Italians are Romans. What you need to know is that there are only three peoples in the earth. Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. All African peoples are the sons of Ham. All Jewish and white people are the sons of Shem. All Asian, Chinese, Hawaiian, Eskimo, Native American, Japanese,Spanish,Cuban,portugese etc are the sons of Japheth. I have a question I dont know whose sons are the Indians of India. Are they Japeth sons?
2006-11-17 14:34:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are in the Human race
2006-11-17 14:30:30 · answer #4 · answered by tri_man_98 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm italian from italy
italians are a nationality not a race
italy was inhabited by hundreds populations from north europe- middle east- north africa- central asia- east europe etc
and so we italians are a mix of races
2006-11-18 13:42:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
god, yet another ignorant comment, and based in racism.
Italians are caucasions. And why does it even matter? We are all people. Isn't that good enough...the human race?
2006-11-17 14:27:17 · answer #6 · answered by nottashygirl 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They have an olive skin tone...they don't have as much melanin as blacks and have more melanin than whites
grey would be the in between for white and black
2006-11-17 21:50:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
All Europeans are considered white, caucasian. What makes you say they are not white?
2006-11-17 14:24:16 · answer #8 · answered by smartypants909 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are Caucasian. Just a little darker shade. Why does it matter?
2006-11-17 14:23:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
what is the current obsession with italien skin colour, my god do you know how sad it is
2006-11-17 16:00:23 · answer #10 · answered by supremecritic 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋