Well, as your nickname shows, you don’t really know what the word “genocide” means.
Uh? “consistent with the understanding of Italian nationality that Italian immigrants had.” I’m afraid not. And I’m afraid that your knowledge of the history of Italy is as shallow as a puddle. Just to give one example: Sicily, for most of the 4 centuries that span between 1458 and 1861 was a part of Spain. So, mixing…
Exactly. I have posted some comments along the same lines, but they’re still “Pending Approval”. I guess the editorial line here is a tiny teeny bit biased towards all this politically correct BS, otherwise I don’t understand why it’s OK to let through comments that are so full of historical errors, half-truths and…
Yes, but the problem with mixing modern nations and nationalities with the identities of their previous inhabitants, is that then maybe I could claim, being more rigorous, that we should also call Spaniards to those who were born and lived in what today is Italy but was part of Spain for a few centuries, all the way…
“overwhelming evidence” ... would you be so kind to point me to where I can find / read about that? Thanks.
I guess you’d like to say the same about the Maya, the Aztecs, etc., so maybe Columbus and the Spaniards who came after them arrived to paradise and they didn’t know it. The problem with this theory of the happy and peaceful natives leaving in peace with each other and with nature is that is mostly BS.
If by “Italian” you mean of Italian nationality, no. Italy as such is a modern invention, as recent as 1870. And the fact that he was from Genoa is rather circumstantial, the whole enterprise was carried out by Spain. The figure of Columbus and the discovery of America (whatever that means) is as true Italian as pasta…
err, not quite, unless you’re asking why Canada doesn’t celebrate John Cabot day, since he landed in Newfoundland.