To: nickcarraway
I wouldn’t have even gotten as far as “Italian.” I always look for the “other” designation or if I get to write something in it’s usually Phoenician or Mongolian.
2 posted on
11/05/2016 5:10:15 PM PDT by
Mercat
(Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
To: nickcarraway
when i was in high school (70’s) u did not refer to the italian kids as sicilian unless u wanted a fight.
3 posted on
11/05/2016 5:12:05 PM PDT by
ronniesgal
( Go Trump!!!)
To: nickcarraway
“To identify any nonexistent linguistic needs.”
Must be that dry British humor.
4 posted on
11/05/2016 5:15:16 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(Point of clarification.)
To: nickcarraway
Some administrator is afraid of waking up with a horse’s head in the bed.
5 posted on
11/05/2016 5:15:40 PM PDT by
rfp1234
(Hail Obambi, our Deer Leader)
To: nickcarraway
My Sicilian born maternal grandfather heard me tell a friend I was half Italian. He cuffed me across the ears and told me we were Sicilians—not Italians. He considered Italians to be low-life people, particularly those from Naples.
6 posted on
11/05/2016 5:16:46 PM PDT by
MIchaelTArchangel
(A Vote for Hillary is a Vote for ISIS!)
To: nickcarraway
9 posted on
11/05/2016 5:21:47 PM PDT by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: nickcarraway
Where do ethnic Carthaginians fit in to this?
12 posted on
11/05/2016 5:26:09 PM PDT by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: nickcarraway
They were asked to define themselves as either 'Italian', 'Italian - Sicilian', 'Italian - Neapolitan' or 'Italian - Other'. Because it is perfectly fine to go in against a Neapolitan when death is on the line.
13 posted on
11/05/2016 5:26:22 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(" T'was the witch of November come stealin' " And who could the stealing Witch of November be? Hmm?)
To: nickcarraway
“Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line! HAHAHAHAHA!” / Princess Bride
15 posted on
11/05/2016 5:28:39 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
To: nickcarraway
Those school admins are ignorant, anyway. Naples is a city, not a region. To be consistent, they should further subdivide “Sicilian” into Palermitan, Catanese, Messinian, Siracusan, etc.
17 posted on
11/05/2016 5:31:21 PM PDT by
rfp1234
(Hail Obambi, our Deer Leader)
To: nickcarraway
Our local CO-OP used to sell dog food with a Boxer dog with boxing gloves on the sack. GRIMALDI’S DOG FOOD! DAGO FOR GRIMALDI’S! WOPPING TO PLEASE!
To: nickcarraway
I also wonder what they ask people from the Indian subcontinent: Punjabi, Rajahstani, Bengalese, Maharat, Gujarati, and a hundred other choices?
20 posted on
11/05/2016 5:36:45 PM PDT by
rfp1234
(Hail Obambi, our Deer Leader)
To: nickcarraway
They’re all Italian. Saying you’re Sicilian is like saying instead of I’m American, I’m Nebraskan.
21 posted on
11/05/2016 5:44:16 PM PDT by
BlueHorseShoe
( Let us all speak out, rise up, lead and conquer!)
To: nickcarraway
Don’t Sicilians have some Arab background?
22 posted on
11/05/2016 5:51:38 PM PDT by
SkyDancer
(Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
To: nickcarraway
When selecting their ethnicity from a drop-down menu on school district websites, Italians in the UK faced a surprising choice. They were asked to define themselves as either 'Italian', 'Italian - Sicilian', 'Italian - Neapolitan' or 'Italian - Other'. What - they didn't have 'Italian - Jersey'?
23 posted on
11/05/2016 5:52:31 PM PDT by
COBOL2Java
("He may be a sinner but she's the Devil" - a minister on the candidates)
To: nickcarraway
24 posted on
11/05/2016 6:39:17 PM PDT by
Chode
(You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
To: nickcarraway
It’s no different than asking if a person is “British - English”, “British - Scottish” or “British - Other”. Before the mid-1800s Italy was divided into several countries, the “Kingdom of the Two Sicilies” being one of them.
To: nickcarraway
Could be worse, the choices could have been, “Dago” or “Wop”.
34 posted on
11/05/2016 9:31:56 PM PDT by
dfwgator
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