Hey guys! My brother is graduating from college and I would love to buy him a corona d’alloro to commemorate our culture at graduation. I have spent HOURS looking online for someone who could make one and I have found absolutely nothing. The only thing I’ve found was a listing on Etsy but it doesn’t look great. Should I start cold calling local florists or do you guys have any suggestions? Thank you!

for my whole life, my family has said “take a nanni” or “go fa nanni” to mean go to sleep. i never really thought anything of it but now i’m wondering if it comes from an italian phrase or if it was just made up jibberish lol. for reference my family comes from sicily and also the marche region (ascoli piceno specifically). did anyone else grow up with this saying?

Your grandparents left Calabria for a better life. You have the option to go back, even just for a month, with your laptop, your work, and a community of people who understand why this matters.
We're running the first-ever remote work cohort in Pizzo Calabro this spring. 22 spots. We'd love your honest feedback on whether this is something you'd consider — or what would make it a no-brainer for you.

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My great grandparents brought these over from Sicily and Calabria. They hauled the trunk all the way from Calabria 😅. My great grandma crocheted this bedspread in Sicily. How many items did you keep from Italy or Ellis Island?

Thats what all my aunts were yelling at me yesterday at my 28th birthday dinner. I live in NYC, no idea where to find these people. Any recs?

I live in Bk with no car so Staten Island and Long Island arent very accessible to me.

Great graduation gift for anyone moving on to “higher education”. Arm them with knowledge, before others disarm them with their ignorance.

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BACKGROUND: Colombian descendants blocked by the Bogotá consular system. First instance (Genoa) recognized them as citizens. Court of Appeal declared case inadmissible for lack of prior administrative application. Cassazione overturns, remands, and establishes binding legal principle.

BINDING PRINCIPLE (official Italian text):

""In tema di azione di accertamento dello status di cittadino italiano, sussiste l'interesse ad agire non solo in caso di diniego o di ritardo nel riconoscimento di tale status, ma anche nell'ipotesi in cui si verifichino impedimenti, difficoltà o lungaggini che non consentono neppure la presentazione della relativa richiesta all'Amministrazione a ciò deputata.""

PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS:

— Ministry's argument ""no administrative application = no standing"": INVALIDATED when there's documented evidence of failed attempts

— Screenshots with no appointments available + access logs + unanswered emails = sufficient to establish standing

— No formally submitted application required

ADDITIONAL LEGAL NOTE: The Cassazione reaffirms iure sanguinis recognition as a DECLARATORY act (right exists from birth). Direct tension with the CONSTITUTIVE logic of ruling 63/2026.

LIMITATIONS:

— Does not address Law 74/2025

— Does not modify generational analysis

— Applies to those with documentation of attempts BEFORE 03/27/2025

— Not a merits ruling: case returns to Genoa Court of Appeal for substantive judgment

— Post-decree with documentation: the principle has no temporal limitation on the procedural level — those who document systematic failed consular attempts after 03/27/2025 can also invoke standing. But the merits (whether the right exists under Law 74/2025) remain open until June 2026. Possible scenario, not a guarantee.

Happy to analyze specific situations.

1. What do you think counts as being Italian-American?

2. What if you’re somewhere between 25%-50% Italian? Does that count?

3. Does it matter which parent the 25%-50% came from?

4. What if you have an extremely Italian sounding last name. Does that help?

5. What if you are 25%-50% Italian, have an Italian last name, but weren’t raised in the culture due to your parents getting divorced when you were very young or some other reason like that. Does that disqualify you?

6. What if number 5 applies, but you actually really love the culture, are you still disqualified?

7. If the answers to numbers 5 and 6 is yes, you’re disqualified, what does it take to get qualified again? Would anything work?

8. What is your relationship with religion like these days?

9. Why does everyone assume we are wine connoisseurs? Is that just my experience?

10. Who do you think of first when someone mentions the “one true king”?

11. There is going to be bonus question here after I get some responses to number 10

12. There might be some more bonus questions here after I get some responses to other questions.

Edit: The answer to number 10 is King Simba of the Pride Lands!!!

“Remember who you are. You are my son and the one true king.” -Mufasa

ciao un mio socio ha pubblicato la terza canzone featuring con un americano fortissimo se volete darmin un parere grazie mille

https://open.spotify.com/track/2wwjAK3w0Y2gvCUrKJbAWv?si=H7UZyF00SuC0h9NIppU17g

Ciao everyone!!

I’m an Italian student in American Studies, and I posted here some months ago asking whether anyone might be willing to share family keepsakes/memories for my MA thesis project:
https://www.reddit.com/r/italianamerican/comments/1p8dexw/comment/oha2ypd/

Life happened and I had to put the project on hold for a while :( but now I’m finally working on it again, and the topic has evolved a bit.

I’m currently developing a thesis on Italian American identity in New York between the late 19th century and the present, with a particular focus on how ethnic identity has been expressed through:

• urban space and neighborhood life
• religious rituals and processions
• food culture
• storefronts/signs and everyday visual culture
• ethnic newspapers
• and, later on, media/digital spaces (which would of course cover the digital era and are easier to find)

I’m approaching the topic historically, but also through anthropology and cultural/media studies

At the moment I’m searching for primary sources related to Italian American communities in NYC, especially things like:

• family archives
• photographs
• oral histories
• old newspapers
• parish documents
• feast/procession photos
• menus or store signs
• neighborhood maps
• letters/diaries

I would especially appreciate anything authentic and personal, even small memories or objects connected to family/community life. Of course, I would properly credit anything used in the research.

Thank you so much in advance, and thank you again to everyone who helped me the first time I posted here :)

Hey everyone! I’m a 47-year-old guy from Italy looking to meet and talk with American girls who enjoy genuine conversations and building a real connection over time.

I’m more into meaningful chats than superficial small talk. I like quiet evenings, movies, music, gaming, discovering new cultures, and talking about everyday life. I can be a little introverted at first, but once I feel comfortable I become very open and loyal.

I’d love to meet someone kind, easygoing, and curious about different cultures. Friendship first, and then we’ll see where things go naturally.

If you’d like an Italian friend to chat with daily, feel free to comment or send me a message 😊🇮🇹

I’m Italian and I have many friends abroad. When they come here I always suggest them what to do, where to go, what not do etc. so I’m asking myself, but if you don’t know nobody in Italy, how can you organise a real Italian trip that is not only in the main touristic cities? Is it a problem that somebody suffer? I’m really curious about the answer

Two opposing narratives are circulating about this ruling. Neither is accurate. Here's the actual breakdown based on the official dispositivo.

THE ACTUAL RULING (Per questi motivi):

The Turin Tribunal raised four substantive questions:

1. Arts. 2 and 3 Cost. (equality, retroactivity, acquired rights) → NON FONDATA — the Court ruled on the merits and found the law constitutionally compatible.

2. Art. 117 Cost. + arts. 9 TEU and 20 TFEU (EU citizenship) → NON FONDATA — same outcome.

3. Art. 117 Cost. + art. 15.2 Universal Declaration → INAMMISSIBILE — procedural defect, merits not examined.

4. Art. 117 Cost. + art. 3.2 Protocol 4 ECHR → INAMMISSIBILE — same reason.

WHAT THIS MEANS:

The ruling is more unfavorable than widely reported. The Court did rule on retroactivity, equality and EU citizenship — and found them constitutionally sound as framed by Turin.

WHAT REMAINS OPEN:

— The situation of those who attempted consular appointments before 03/27/2025 but failed: explicitly left open (impregiudicata) at point 9.1 of the ruling.

— ECHR and Universal Declaration questions: rejected on procedural grounds, not on merits. Can be properly re-raised.

— Mantua and Campobasso appeals: different argumentation, hearing June 2026.

Happy to answer questions about specific cases.

https://www.cortecostituzionale.it/scheda-pronuncia/2026/63

Exactly as the title says -

I'll be in Chicago next month for my Bachelor party, and want my last night (Sunday) to be a family style Sunday dinner with my guys but don't want any of us to have to cook.

What are you best family style spots that aren't overly expensive (less than $150pp), and you don't have to wear a 3 piece suit to get into.

Preface: I am in SoCal. I've had a passive interest in Italian culture, like many people do. And about a couple of months ago, I was talking to one of my friends about the fact that we have many Italian restaurants around SoCal - yet we don't have too many Italian American communities. To which we rationalized that it must be stronger in New York City considering that New York is the closest to Europe.

Which then led to another question about why is it that Italian restaurants are usually "on par" with other ethnic minority genre restaurants like Greek, Mexican, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian, Thai, and Filipino... and why on Earth there aren't many French restaurants, German restaurants, or Polish restaurants. (Although we do get Hamburgers from the Germans).

So I'm wondering why on Earth is it that the Italian Americans have the most visible cuisine culture, and the other major European countries don't.

Don't know if this is the best place to ask but thought I'd ask regardless.