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Re:Japan's Hometown Tax by googlryas on Friday October 19, 2018 @04:15PM (#18259676)
Not technically but if you had 1000 naked northern and southern Italians in a room you could probably achieve an 85+% success rate in segmenting them into their respective class. Northern Italians generally look much more like Germans or Swiss - on average taller, lighter skin, lighter eye color, whereas southern Italians are much swarthier and slightly shorter, coming from many years of arab, greek, and north african control.
Re:Japan's Hometown Tax by southphillyman on Friday October 19, 2018 @05:01PM (#18260036)
Perhaps this explains why Italian Americans don't really look like the Italians I see on Italian television shows? Seems most of them migrated from southern Italy/Sicily.
Re:Japan's Hometown Tax by coldtea on Saturday October 20, 2018 @09:14AM (#18263154)
>Seems most of them migrated from southern Italy/Sicily.

Yes, since they were the poorest provinces, and thus the ones that produced most immigrants.

A "fun" read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Italianism#Anti-Italianis...