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HelpI find it a bit funny (m)
in reply to a message by Dot
I find it funny when I am in the US and someone tells me: "Oh, you're Italian? So am I!" My internal reaction is: "No you're not. Your an American of some Italian descent." I get your point about people the "I am ___" because it's simpler, esp. amongst Americans, but for me it just looks like equating having a grandparent of a certain nationality who landed in Ellis Island in 1910 with having lived all your life in a country, speaking its language as a first language etc. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for people preserving their immigrant culture, but as I said, this form is a bit funny from an Eruopean point of view.
Interesting about Italian names becoming popular in the US...Incidentally, Gianna is the kind of name that has pretty much fallen out of use in Italy, so it's a bit like insisting on using Celtic spellings when even "real" Scots and Irish use the anglicized ones.
Interesting about Italian names becoming popular in the US...Incidentally, Gianna is the kind of name that has pretty much fallen out of use in Italy, so it's a bit like insisting on using Celtic spellings when even "real" Scots and Irish use the anglicized ones.
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I'm pretty sure that the recent upswing of Gianna is related to the beatification (1994) and subsequent canonization (2004) of St. Gianna Beretta Molla. I hear it a lot in Catholic circles in the US, not just among Italian-Americans. It’s a nice option for families that already have a Mary, Katherine, Elizabeth or Anne.
I'm pretty sure that the recent upswing of Gianna is related to the beatification (1994) and subsequent canonization (2004) of St. Gianna Beretta Molla. I hear it a lot in Catholic circles in the US, not just among Italian-Americans. It’s a nice option for families that already have a Mary, Katherine, Elizabeth or Anne.
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