My great grandfather was from Genoa. When he came to NY, he pretended to be French because the Irish, who controlled much of government and businesses, wouldn’t hire an Italian. To get even with them, he married an Irish woman.
LOL Mi nonno and nonni both from sicily met in W VA when he went to work in the coal mines. Didn’t stay in Little Italy much Found a sicilian woman in a diner owned by her brother Homemade spaghetti every day.