Posted on 04/23/2021 12:12:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Today it would be a conservative state.
Well that would have been weird.
RE: Today it would be a conservative state.
It would have been better had the Separatists campaigned to be an INDEPENEDENT COUNTRY.
Some Sicilians says, “I’m Sicilian, not Italian,” but not all. A chef I met recently definitely didn’t feel that way.
When my sons were in Rome, the tour guide - a Roman, had little good to say about us, declaring that we Sicilians are of a different race. She wasn’t completely wrong. ;-)
Italy has been successful in erasing much of the cultural difference among its varied geo g raphicareas. I have Sicilian American relatives who have found it difficult to communicate when they visited Sicily. They spoke the traditional Sicilian dialect of their grandparents while the natives, except for the seniors spoke Roman Italian.
Let’s just get a ferry service going until we can build a bridge.
Did she give the speech that Dennis Hopper made in “True Romance” ?
=running away=
“Today it would be a conservative state.”
As now part of Italy, it’s only conservative until their Socialized Medicine, and extremely costly pension programs.
Add to that, Italy’s high Abortion Rate.
Not all that conservative.
If the annexation had happened, Michael Corleone could not have hidden in Sicily after the veal, and he would have never met Apollonia.
Sicily would have at least been less alien than Hawaii, which should never have been admitted as a state. The downside to annexing Sicily would have been perpetual involvement in the affairs of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.
ROTFLMAO!!!
Crudely done, but not wholly inaccurate.
Sicily is a place where traditions are respected and what we call "conservative values" are very much in effect; Family, God, Country.
Respect for elders is strong, the churches are well attended on Sundays and holidays, street crime, except for in a few areas in Palermo, is virtually non-existent. I'm not exaggerating when I say that a five year old child could wander the streets in any village here and be safe at any hour.
Here's a personal story that pretty much sums things up: A few years ago, my wife's crazy daughter was visiting and had a date with a young Sicilian man here. On the date she apparently got pretty liquored up. A few hours later, my bell rang - it was her date and his friends, who had walked her drunk ass home like gentlemen. No one took advantage of her. I can't say it would have ended that way if this had happened in most places in the 'States.
Sicilians love freedom - they deal with the corrupt Italian bureaucracy by quietly getting around it any way they can. And they are immensely creative when it comes to ignoring or subverting unjust rules and unjust laws.
Leftist agendas here? Crazy bullshit like transgender story hour, 267 genders, BLM and the like? No freakin' way - anyone who dared push crap like that would get a serious talking to and then run out of town.
Yes, Sicilians floated that idea sometime ago. They would surely be better off under Washington than they are under Rome. And we would get a great Mediterranean vacation spot!
Sicily voted Communist if I recall correctly after the war. Italy was that close to going Communist in the 40s.
Most Romans consider Sicily more African than Italian.
LOL! One of the greatest scenes ever committed to film.
Growing up, many of my neighbors were from Sicily. Beautiful people.
“In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.”
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