As a result of the Roman Empire, Italy with its slave economy was very multi-ethnic 2, years ago. Women can go back directly through the femal ancestry. The tantalising thing about genetics is that we can never know if this African male ancestor turned up in Sicily during the Moorish invasion in about 1, A.
You get tall ones, short ones, sturdy ones, dainty ones, very dark ones and very pale ones and even a few gingernuts. Dark like Nonna Pina? Blonde and green-eyed like Nonna Anna? Deep olive skin like uncle Danilo? I have a brother-in-law who is extremely dark but his son has platinum blonde hair and blue eyes.
Meanwhile the photos I am sent from America always look like Sicilians in winter. Of course Sicilians are pale in winter. But what about summer? Most Sicilians spend as much of the summer as possible on the beach. How dark they go is partly a result of their genes and mainly a direct measure of how much leisure time they get.
Very white people get lots of pity and commiseration, whereas the dark ones attract slightly envious admiration. Except for his buttocks, which were so white they glowed in the dark. Feel free to say anything you like about this post but, if your comments are rude to me, or to anyone, or ranting, or designed to provoke, I will not publish them.
Read reviews or look inside the book on Amazon. Its wonderful to see that the post has not been removed as the previous two were. On the question of gene pools, race and phenotype, a rule of thumb to follow is. The closer a population is to the Arabized North Africa, the more that population has in common with these Arabized peoples.
Around Rome however one might well expect inputs to the gene pool from all over the regions that constituted the Roman Empire. Like Like. My Sicilian grandparents immigrated to Ellis Island probably around Glad Guy took the name back. My grandparents came with the Sponsoring of my grandmothers brother in PA. It was an arranged marriage, they married and then came to live in MD.
For years I believed I was Italian. Then I was told my grandfather was a wine maker and barrel maker for the wine in Cefalu, Sicily. I have his tools passed down to me. Yes I was also called names but took it as my father being made fun of. My grandmother could not speak English as my grandfather could. I only new my grandmother, grandfather passed at 67, she at I have a issue with the German part, as I know what the Germans did to the Jews.
Some people never acquire that much with a couple degrees. Thank you for your article that I stumbled onto. A proud Sicilian American. Donna Giardina. Like Liked by 2 people. All 4 grandparents come from the same town in Sicily.. Like Liked by 1 person. I enjoyed your article about Sicilian DNA. Haha so i am one of the blonde hair hazel eyed white yet i tan to perfection people. My entire family have dark brown hair and brown eyes except my dad who has hazel eyes.
They have beautiful olive skin and tan extremely dark. I always thought i was the mailmans baby but your article helped clear up we are all different shades and all the same too. I loved hearing the story about Sicily and Sicilians, thank you. Oops, sorry gramps. But he was born in or around Palermo and was very proud of his heritage as am I! You can be proud of being German too. If someone looks down on you for what one of your ancestors did, they are in the wrong, not you. Ha haaa! This sounds like my son.
When he was little and wanted to get in bed with me, it was like having a hot water bottle! I also agree with your bottom comment though. And their are people with all kinds of skin tones all over the world. I agree with you about the variety of Sicilian coloring.
My dad looked Arab his parents came from the western side of the island from Campobello di Mazara with olive skin and black hair, but his father had fair skin, blond hair and hazel eyes.
My dad looked like his mother, and I look like her, but my skin is fair. My dna covered every possible area all around the Mediterranean, so you never know what the next generation will look like as the genes make their own mix. My son looks exactly like my dad, but with ivory skin, and my daughter looks exactly like her paternal grandmother who was born in Rome.
None of us my siblings nor my kids look like that particular blend. You just never know. I have always been proud of all my heritage. My 4 grandparents are from Vizzini.. I can explain to you why they did that…when a girl gets married her family gives a dowery.. I had a very dear friend who had dated the love of her life as a young girl, but had been separated from him as his mother forced him to marry one of his cousins.
I also had the hilarious experience, when being admitted to hospital for the birth of my son, of being asked by a doctor if my husband was my first or second cousin. I laughed so hard I nearly fell off my trolley, till Hubby said his parents were cousins. This practice is more than likely taken from Leviticus and Deuteronomy in the Bible. Was the family of Jewish ancestry?
It used to be very common throughout Sicily, among the Catholic families. It was also common throughout the Middle East as far as I know, and was extremely common in North Africa too in the past. Yet in my family there was a huge scandal when one cousin decided to marry another cousin! And when my great-uncle wondered whether my sister would marry his son, my parents went berserk! It may not be all over Sicily — definitely not in our village. I do know however that it is common in the Middle East — very common.
I suppose this goes to show how varied attitudes are, maybe by village, maybe even by family. I also think that when cultural attitudes are evolving, some families change faster than others.
I am not shocked. Many Sicilians were actually Jewish before the Inquisition when they were forced out of Sicily or converted conversos. Marrying the brother of your husband, once widowed, is a Biblical law in the Old Testament. I hate that I had to see that. Both my parents already did it. My dad is mostly British. He and I both tan very easily. My grandmother and mother are not very tan at all, but my grandfather and uncle are.
Hell, I wanted to be whiter when I was a little kid. Cedro is a local citrus fruit that looks like a giant lemon.
Like a lemon with comparatively less of the juicy bit, the cedro is nine-tenths pith, but the pith is soft, slightly spongy and delicious. Of course this is the way we all used to eat, but in Sicily the tradition has remained.
During its heyday, the Spanish empire sucked the island dry — people were treated as serfs and retreated inland to form their own, separate society. By the 19th century, this vagabond culture was completely entrenched, with the whole of Sicily being ruled by these nameless, shadowy figures who became the Mafia.
The Mafia is the idea of the family turned into an alternative political system. The notion that your family is what you cleave to — rather than the state — is an ancient one in Sicily because, traditionally, the island has been ruled by outsiders.
It has been affected by Africa, very strongly by the Arab world, the Normans, the Romans and the Greeks. A fantastic dish like pasta con le sarde — pasta with sardines and raisins — has its roots in the Arab invasion, with a sweet and sour taste that you will find nowhere else in Italy. Walking its streets is like travelling through time. Veering off behind it in every direction is a honeycomb of tiny little streets — so narrow that it would be pointless trying to squeeze through in any vehicle larger than a three-wheeler — each with lines of washing hanging all along them.
Hidden within these labyrinthine alleyways is one of the masterpieces of Baroque sculpture. As Latinas, we know how to handle the situation. We learned as little girls how to handle the man who used their best piropos on us. Do what your mothers taught you when you go to Sicily!
The same rules apply. The only difference is, you'll probably have no idea what they're saying because they are speaking too fast. My advice, is assume that they're calling you beautiful! The stereotype of Latinos is that the men are macho and the women are submissive. The same is said of Sicilians. When people think of Sicilian men, they think of the mafia; they envision Al Pacino. Yet machismo, although present, does not define Sicilian culture.
Like Latinas, Sicilian women do not take the husband's last name. Sicilian women also are more daring in the way they dress. If Sicily were truly just a "macho" place, women would be covered head to toe. But the women that I saw flaunted their bodies and their beauty.
Many in the United States see this as bad, but for Sicilian women and Latinas, it's being proud of what you look like. Although women keep their last name and wear "provocative" clothing, virginity remains of great importance, largely due to religion.
Weddings are also a big part of Sicilian tradition-- which means that virginity and marriage go hand in hand. Latinos and Sicilians have many things in common, but we also have many differences. Latinos may understand the language, but we are in no way fluent in Italian. When you attempt to speak in Italian, they'll know you're not and will treat you like a tourist. Sign Up. Travel Guides. Videos Beyond Hollywood Hungerlust Pioneers of love.
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