Would you date an Italian American girl?

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

I mean, for how much I appreciate and am friends/neighbor/family with Italian Americans, those people are kind of weird.

I have lived 90% of my life in Italy and know people from all its regione, and I realized that the Italian Americans that have been in Boston and Plymouth for five or six generations are more their own culture than anything you'd find in Italy proper - they are a melting pot from immigrants that came from Sicily, Naples, Calabria; and even northern regions such as Piemonte and Lombardia. Especially the food and the dialect the older generations speak (the youngest are much more "americanized") are a mix up of all this stuff.

There's this girl I am acquainted with who's very into the whole Italian heritage things, but doesn't speak a lick of Italian convincingly, has never been there and comes off more like a classic college educated American girl, blonde and blue eyed. I told her I am willing to take her to Italy a week or two on my dime, see the real thing for herself.

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For girls the opposite applies - would you date an Italian American guy?

[DishLady]

I of course don’t care for the condescending “those people” 😒😒😒. How rude and disrespectful.


And yeah, in a country BUILD BY domineering immigrants from every part of the planet YEAH you’ll have a mish-mosh of cultural infusion. As a kid there was an educational cartoon called “Great American Melting Pot” in the Schoolhouse Rock series. I’d normally look it up and add the link to my response, but your post is so culturally offensive and insensitive I won’t bother. You can google it if you g. a. s.


Yeah, first fellow I was into was “super Italian” on his dad’s side and “vanilla American” on his mom’s side. He was a great guy, though a little flakey bc of the duality of dynamics at home plus what he was learning on the fly from school and community.

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

Honestly I didn't mean it in a condescending way, I am sorry if it came down that way.

[Abbycado]

I’m guessing this is for the guys only, but no.

Don’t date girls, period. Not that ethnicity would put me off.

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

I should have made it more general

[Abbycado]

No prob. Yes, I’d date that person if we were a good fit.

[HawkPerception]

I've lived in an Italian neighborhood since 2001, although with the mass of immigrants the liberal party has brought in, that seems to have changed a fair bit.

I honestly like their culture. When I grew up here, a lot of their parents were straight from Italy. Very warm and classy people. Many of them were a little too bougie and entitled for my taste though. But that was more about the area they were raised than about them being Italian.

I would definitely date an American-Italian or Canadian-Italian girl.

[OlderAndWiser]

When I was single, I would have dated an Italian-American girl, but I don't know if the difference in cultures would have become a problem.

[midnightmoon05]

Funny. I am married to an American Italian man. His family has been in the US for many generations.
American/Italians are very different from local Italians from Italy. Italians from the North (Lombardi region where you come from) will mostly be a little different from southern Italians (not by much), but a little.

actually I am from the east coast US and worked with lots of Italians, these are first, second generation Italians and they are different from my husband whose family have more influence from mid US.

[LazerBean]

I can't say that I've ever met an Italian American, that I know of at least. I always think of mafia type people when it comes to them 😂 I know that's probably silly though. I think they look nice though!

[DryGermanGuy]

I think I know what you mean, in my case with the German-American girls. Can’t put two sentences together in German, was never here, but insists on „being 25% German“ or whatever. 🥴

[silvermoon84]

Speaking as an American, that’s because we’re a county built on immigration and so many of us confuse nationality with ethnic background. It’s very common for Americans to ask each other “what’s your nationality?” I always answer “American, with Irish and German ancestry” because I felt it was the right way to answer. I either get laughed at or I get the “aww, it’s cute how precise you are”, but I’m not going to say I’m Irish or German when I’ve never been to either country lol.

[DryGermanGuy]

@silvermoon84
Yeah… sounds about right. 😐

[Zack-Bann]

My Mediterranean culture is highly similar to Italian culture so I would feel right at home dating someone from that demographic


Haven’t done it yet


But who knows

[RedInnocent69]

Duh… yeah! 🥵😍

[Xawyx-2]

If she's my type of girl - Yes I would.

[Anonymous]

Sure they are hot

[zagor]

Yes, as long as her Dad wasn't mob.

[Agape93]

Of course.