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mass immigration leads into ItalianAmericans today:

In Sicily, you see Africa all around you,
even if you don’t recognize it.

Italian is the fourth largest ethnic group
reported among white Americans.

COUS COUS: Cous cous is a Sicilian

The great majority of Italians are now
middle class to upper middle class and
wealthy. They also mostly work white
collar jobs.
Their intermarriage rate is around 90%.
It was at 80% in the 70′s. So most
Italian-Americans also have a white
parent of some other descent, especially
if they were born after 1980.

What Have Africans Done
For Sicily?
The first wave of Africans were the
Carthaginians. Carthage is now Tunis,
in Tunisia. They spoke Phoenician, a
Semitic language related to Hebrew, and
were a cultural and ethnic mix of
colonists from Lebanon and indigenous
African Berbers. They never ruled Sicily
without a fight, but first started founding
cities here in the 8th century B.C. and
always had a foothold on the island to
the 2nd century B.C.
The Romans conquered Sicily
eventually, and then later cam R6V6