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[quote=Anonymous]If northern Italians think that they look like Germans they are wrong. I lived in Ticino Switzerland and even there, the Swiss Italians looked different from the Germans. 
I think that Northern Italians have a complex. They do NOT look like Northern Europeans and Northern Italy is not like Northern Europe.

I like all of Italy, including the southern part.

By emphasizing this "northern" heritage, Italians show their insecurity. Best way to make your self look stronger and to show some self respect is to defuse the whole thing and say that they are Italian period.

As an African American, I get concerned when some AAs boast about their Native American heritage to deflect from African roots. It makes them look silly even if they do have native blood. I am not suggesting that we neglect the family heritage that is different from our outward look, but it does not need to be emphasized in the first two sentences.

I once knew a Sri Lankan woman who used to say that her mother was white. The young woman was darker that I. It turns out that when I met her mother, the mother was half Portuguese half Sri Lankan (common mixture there) and was not white. To me, it seemed that somewhere in that family being white mattered a whole lot.

Don't get me going on Iranians who say that they are white...

Colored people please be proud of it, our skin is beautiful, no matter what the media wants us to believe, don't get sucked in. [/quote]

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