Americans who think they’re Italian 🇮🇹
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Chicanos that think they're Mexican
Americans are the best at Italy
The same phenomena happens here in Argentina with we the Argentinians with Italian ancestors. You should come and see it for yourself. This video is very funny
@@PabloPucciOK tell us about the ones with German ancestry
Food trucks, or what old people call, "Roach coaches."
Next up should be Irish in Boston. 🍀
I think of Irish Americans as being from Chicago because I saw the movie the fugitive.
I was a Scotsman in Boston and got so much free shit because I was "Irish too"
🎉😊
@@NeillWylie Technically Scots come from Ireland so it's not completely wrong
@@m.m.1301 ehm, no they don't. Look at the first paragraph in the the wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_people
Being named “Frankie” is like you’re already in the mob.
i think the "americans who tink they're irish" and "americans who tink they're italian" segments overlap owing to the fact that nobody with any sense really wants to admit they're a truly homogeneous american
@@jackmiller8851That doesn’t even make any sense. If you’re pure founding stock Anglo American then saying “I’m Italian” or “I’m Irish” would be inventing a nonexistent heritage which isn’t what is happening here. People acknowledging their unique heritage should be promoted more, not discouraged.
Or 'Richie'
@@Azzury. From what I've seen many white americans might have a quarter irish or italian ancestry with the rest being a mix of english, scottish or german but they hyperfocus on that 25%. Not saying that they shouldn't but its interesting how certain heritages are celebrated more than others
He’s been outed as a mob wife
"they have to be the best at being Italian because they're American" well played....
And passionate about the place they didn't come from.
I was googling this guy for ages the other day. "Irish guy sarcastically interviews random groups of people" produced no results. I'm so happy I got recommended so that I can now subscribe and memorize your name
Is he Scottish or Irish? I thought his accent sounded Irish for some reason.
Edit: nvm, I literally just saw your correction there! That was funny.
Namaste, brother🧘♂️
Google can’t find anything anymore smh
If you searched "Irish guy sarcastically interviews random groups of people" the first time maybe you would have had results
memorise the scottish and irish accents first bestie
" omg your english is really good , for how long you've been learning for " 😂😂😂😂
“S(chi)usi”…?” 😂😂😂😂😂
She was an incredible sport. Lepid. ❤
I lost it 😂
Blood means more than anything else
💀
I can’t believe how brave I was for this 🙏🏻
that took baWlls.
You're a strong confident diverse woman for this one
This must be one of your best ones, and all of them are great 🤌🏻
When will you do Americans who think they're Irish
Have you ever watched the sopranos
I'm an Italian from Italy, never been to 'merica, and I thank you sir for this interesting documentary
In soldoni, un documentario sui C*samonica
So what you're saying is you're a fake Italian?
Darling most Italians got in the US in 1900 and settled in towns that were already built. They were very poor, looking for any job to survive and they faced a brutal kind of racism from the actual colonizers. It wasn't us killing the american natives. We did our damages in Northern Africa. That was actual Italian colonization @@HaCubbee
@@Blueshirt38 apparently Yes 🙈
What part?
It's OK, we have italians here who think they’re americans
My life is made better by this knowledge 😂
😂😂 100% true . They're called "Milanesi Imbruttiti"
What do they like rap and watch NBA or something?
No, they are from Milan and think their city is like New York business-wise.
🤣
"They own a mansion while working in waste management." Knew a guy who drove a soda pop delivery truck and owned three houses in Vancouver.
glad to see snow washing is well known even in new york
I wouldn't mess with that guy.
How do you know that he has 3 Houses?
@@Mansory811 I’m just kidding Tony. Relax, there’s no evidence.
Vancouvah!
As an Italian American, you are describing East coast italians. Us west coast italians are less annoying, but more delusional about being actual italians.
Less annoying? Ay - Oh, look at this guy ova here. Ming. lol
Same thing 🤡
jersey represent, we are the loudest most annoying sudo-Italian. The strident accent is a blend wit Jew I think.
@@mxecho Jew is not a language or an accent
@@wee3ist From Brooklyn to south Jersey it is. Hollar to my Chabad cuz. Largest Jewish population outside of Israel is in the Tri-state. Most the folks in Seinfeld spoke it in the show.
As an “Italian” American from Long Island I can confirm that this video is entirely accurate 😂
No need for the quotes. We don't do "african" American hahaha
@@haruspex9662 but "Africa" is not a country, its more like a race kind of, I think the quotes have to do with the fact that Eye-talians are related to a country
@@realhumbug but "italian" encompasses specific Mediterranean and even non Mediterranean ethnicities I'd say if you're descended from Italians you yourself could be considered an Italian American.
@@realhumbugit’s a continent, can you act less American?
Lingua o linguaggio? In italiano significano cose diverse
"They're passionate about where they didn't come from."
Nothing describes the ethnicities in the US better than this.
They took their culture with them when they came to the US and they are proud of that great nation. They clung to it. But Itally kept changing and they didnt. I dont think of this type of thing as insulting because culture can cross borders but if they try to hassle an actual Italian or compete that is dumb. But just living their lives, as hard as it may seem to believe, I think they are being authentic to themselves and family.
Apparently we aren’t allowed to have a culture.
@@americandissident9062 You ain't got none, matey.
@@lysandersensale2792 Big talk from someone who didn’t share their location, matey.
@@lysandersensale2792 No culture? USA has invented alot of stuff like music genres for example like Rock N Roll, Jazz, Country, Blues, Pop ETC. Plus also we would turn your country into dust let alone no more culture because of our unstoppable military power.
She’s right about your pink jacket 😂😂
Calling me a mobwife might be the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me
But do you wear Lepid?
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmind She seemed to really enjoy your company. Glad you made her laugh.
He’s mobbed up? No, he’s a mob wife!
@@ryno5929 some of his money does come from illegal gambling and what not
I think this is the best one you've done. Laughing so hard my cheeks ache.
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@@XDak0_0 Silly you... not those cheeks...
My butt cheeks.
Which cheeks?
@@handemhanyou beat us all to it. 😂
As an Italian actually from Italy this is so hilarious and grotesque to see😂😂
And now you qualify yourself as “Italian from Italy” because these people exists.
@@phoenix5054 😂
As a non Italian I still break the pasta in half and it feels good 😊
Growing up in New York City and still to this current day, I only met three Italians that actually could speak their language.
Most Italian Americans probably don't know 5 numbers in Italian
@@TheMissiIeassimilated so much that it's unrecognizable. I'm not Italian, but I do love watching their movies and TV shows when I can find it streaming.
Nah man, those are Greeks pretending to be Italians, real Italians definitely grew up with speaking Italian in their homes
To be fair, that happens to me in Italy as well.
Yeah, almost like the bigotry was so bad when we arrived that the elder generation didn't teach their children the language for the sake of assimilation. Also, the groups that came over didn't speak standard "Italian", but their local dialect, which was often Sicilian.
Your bravest video yet.
1:17 again
Yeah I'm starting to get a bit worried for the guy, offending people in Ireland is not like offending people in America - with all the guns they have there.
As an Italian, they all look like old style southern Italians, but there’s something wrong with them, they look exactly like americans wanting to look like italians but have no idea how italian people actually look
They ARE old style southern Italian and Sicilian. It’s definitely a subculture but a lot of these guys are 100% legit. It’s not that they think they’re Italian citizens, but rather that they’ve maintained their Italian heritage and values from the old world.
@@KingAnarchistYes correct they don't view themselves as Italians living in Italy but they don't want to forget there culture and traditions so they call themselves Italian because genetically they are.
No one is “genetically Italian”. “Italian” is a nationality.
@@rosiebowers1671 Do certain regions not have particular historic genetic similarities? Of course “Italian” is a nationality but saying someone is of Italian genetic origin is easier than listing a particular genetic code commonly found in that region historically. A man of Korean decent can be born and raised in Sweden, so he is “Swedish”, but that doesn’t take away the fact his genetics are still “Korean”. It’s a semantic argument.
@@rosiebowers1671 That's not the point it's remembering your culture and traditions and Dna just like you love your mother because she is related to you
"Always seem to go to the Dry Cleaners at questionable hours in the morning" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“They think they’re more Italian than the Italians because they’re American which means they have to be the best at everything including Italy” 😂
I absolutely love how none of them are really laughing along, they're just standing there like a specimen wondering what's wrong with this guy 😅❤
Did you assume its gender? It is clearly an Italian housewife.
The mob wife got it though
It's always been so funny when I travelled to the US and met people who were sooo excited to find out we were both "Italian". But when you ask them which part of Italy their family comes from or try to speak Italian with them, there's nothing but silence XD to me, those are not Italians but Americans of Italian descent. I also grew up outside of Italy since my dad and his family came from Italy to Germany for work. But I speak the language, have the Italian passport, visit my relatives in Italy very regularly, know the culture and places... This is what I'd consider the minimum if you want to call yourself Italian.
Nobody cares
@@jake-qn3tl I do.
@@jake-qn3tlspeak for yourself
@@jake-qn3tlin reality you project your own uncaring stance on this topic. Yet ironically you cared enough to comment this
@@Teuwufel I care about the subject, but I don't care about their criteria. I know who I am. Does that make sense?
As an American of Italian descent from Long Island I feel like I was just personally attacked
As an English person, I think you and your fellow countryfolk were verbally attacked.
😂😂😂
You talkin to me?!
If your ancestry is Italian and you grew up around the tongue I think you're good. Much like how a Hispanic person hasn't been a citizen of Spain in a long time but carries the tongue and culture and is defined by it as a Hispanic person.
This was awesome. 2nd generation Italian American woman here and I have to say I have been all over the world and the Italian Americans from NY/NJ are BY FAR some of the most unreal people you will ever meet. It's like you cannot even believe it's real, the names, the nicknames. the cases they catch, the bribes, the violence, the families, the bloodlines, the illegal work turned legal, the cash etc etc etc. Honestly, its like one big movie, if you know the right/wrong people.
You mean its embarassing
@@goodtogo2876 No, endearing.
imported from napoli
@@goodtogo2876 they give nyc good flavor.
Quasimodo predicted all this you know
What did he say
@@_loss_Nostradamus and notre dame are two different things
Nostradamus, Nostradamus! Quasimodo was the hunchback of Notre dame!
Also,you've got the Hunchback of Notre Dame, but then you also have the quarterback of Notre Dame. Come on, you never thought about that? The back thing with Notre Dame?
He did NAWWW-ATH!
That's some good lepid on her shoes
I absolutely LOVE Italians from Italy AND Italian Americans !!!! Never stop being your glorious selves!
The “you don’t look close enough” got me lmaoo 😂
“The male strain of Americans…” good line
As an actual Italian (you know, someone born in the nation of Italy rather than pretending to be), this is incredible
Wait until you see Argentinians who think are Italian
You have to be born and raised in Italy to be italian. My grandfather is from Denmark, but I'm not from there, does that still make me danish in your eyes? I'm Swedish, I was born and raised in Sweden.@@HaCubbee
@@nachorodriguez6380
More like argentinians pretending to be europeans in general.
@HaCubbee can you try to be less stupid? I know its hard for you but please
@@HaCubbeeOh we understand colonialism. We just don't care anymore.
I actually worry for Frankie when he does this in the USA. Did the guy who kissed him give him the kiss of death? 😂
Frankie wisely demanded two kisses which cancel out
@@Tomartyr=))
@@Tomartyr they cancel out the death, but double on his g-word pass.
Solo io non ho mai visto una persona italiana coi capelli laccati, giacca elegante aperta, catenaccio sul petto, rolex placcato oro e più di un anello alle dita?
Perché non sei mai andato più a sud di Piacenza
Non sei meridionale, uno di noi... semplice!
@@sbef Facciamo Ancona, va'.
Sono io con 80 kg di più quello😂
Per loro italiano = cittadino del new jersey
unrelated but his coat slays
slays hard
Very related and very true
very true
It really though, it really, really do.
First video I've seen from this channel. This was so surreal that I couldn't tell if it was all staged or if it was truthfully blunt. Awesome.
You ask him in spanish hahahah
I never got why some people say Italians and Southern Europeans aren't white. Sure, some of them have tanned skin but their facial features are very much European.
its not about the colour of their skin. its a made up (socially constructed) category/identity, as is with black and brown people incidentally, there are no essential phenomenological features that make you any 'race' at all. A couple decades ago jewish, irish and southern europeans were not considered white merely because you wanted to discriminate against them.
Some southerners are exotic to be European, even if they are few they were more visible for Anglo-Americans so they generalised.
Their facial features look like north africans. I guess if you think they're white too then sure, but these Italians ain't white the way a Dane is.
I've heard people saying Italians are the black people of white people which is crazy to me 😂
Look into the intolerant history of the US, you’ll learn why. They even considered the Irish to be not-white. Which is one of the most wild takes ever.
Quality! I wasn’t sure you’d survive this one
Ah Frankie glad you are back on top form, ya hit it with this one.
As far as I can tell, this is an identical edit to the one on Instagram, but it still hits different here.
Loved it, btw. Frankie, sociologist, anthropologist, videographer, documentation, satirist, mob wife. Truly a man for all seasons.
Namaste. 🙏
How does it hit different on CZcams? Is it funnier with the comment section here?
"Como se dice" is Spanish. In Italian it would be "come si dice" (co-meh si dee-che).
forget about it
They are Italian diaspora and they speak dialect not standard Italian. Moronic quibble.
ahh potato potato. Gabagool cappicole.
Uh.. it's so different that its mutually unintelligible 😂😂😂😂
Every sentence in this video is a joke. An “italian” from the US couldn’t tell the difference between Spanish & Italian. That’s the joke… 😏
I'm Italian I've never seen actual Italians who look like at least half of those people.
because italy is now full of albanians and romanians and those that love in america are actually pure italians before those came
Ma dove vivi ahaha
@@nundata bro are u for real
@nundata the "pure Italians" in this video look just like the albanians in my town. Bad news buckaroo, I could probably assemble a mob of albanians,Tunisians, Colombians, Cubans and Syrians and pass them off as an Italian American festival.
@@nundatadumbest comment i have ever read holy shit
Some hard hitting truths there.
Love this! Great find!
12 - 15 seconds of this and I'm in. Subscribed.
i'm still not sure gabagool isn't just a character on the sopranos
Tony spent at least 5% of the run time lookin for dat fuckin guy.
Gabagool was my favourite character. They should have done more with that guy....
@@dwrobotics2180 Probably a snitch with a name like that.
Gabagool? Ovah here.
@@polreamonnyou blow your fatha with that mouth?
As an American without a drop of Italian blood (but who has learned Italian to a high level for fun) I approve of this video.
Hope your trip to the US is going well and you're having fun!
This is so hilarious I had to subscribe.
I'm wheezing, this is my mom's family 3,000%. Great content! Subscribed.
Do one for Americans who think they're Mexicans 🇲🇽
We have our own version where the children of immigrants think they're cultural experts and representatives but never lived or grew up in Mexico and their only point of reference to Mexico is the extremely rural remote town their parents are from, so when they meet Native Mexicans they simply speak over them about what it means to be Mexican 🤌🏻🤌🏻
I’m guessing a lot of the people you’re referring to make their self-identification even cringier by using the dreaded “Latinx” term? (Not Latino myself, but I have seen a lot of Spanish speakers on the internet express annoyance toward it even as it becomes increasingly common in what are otherwise diversity-friendly spaces.)
@@eeyorehaferbock7870 Yuuup- you nailed it actually. American children of Mexican heritage are generally seen negatively by native Mexicans because they tend to be very ignorant about what they claim is “their culture”, but that’s not the issue. The issue is that when Native Mexicans correct them or try to educate them instead of learning and updating their misconceptions they simply double down and speak over Natives. We know them as pochos but they prefer the term chicanos because “pochos” usually has a negative connotation.
@@eeyorehaferbock7870 So this video on Americans pretending to be Italians was hilarious to me because it seems other nationalities deal with this same phenomenon haha
very precise description
@@el_equidistante Thank you, it’s a topic many of us are extremely aware of, so this video seemed fitting haha
This one is my favorite 🤣
This channel is going to blow up
Americans thinking they are from someplace a distant ancestor came from is certainly strange to a European. But conversely, many Europeans think second and even third-generation immigrants are from the country of their ancestors, though they often have never been there and don't have a command of the language; sometimes even denying them citizenship.
Thank you so much for this video! These things needed to be said.
All those people have been such good sports, so cool.
Priceless video!!
Frankie, you done a real good thing here!
3:31 you asked him to chase you and he's like nah lol
This is hilarious bro!!!
Thanks for taking one for the team ❤
The video we all needed. 'Irish' Americans do the same thing. They really believe it too I grew up with these types of people.
The walk around posing shots have me dying. 😂
I could watch this channel all day lool
I worked at an Italian deli after school when I was a teenager. They pronounced everything like it was spelled, except soppressata, which they left the last vowel off. I always pronounced it that way until I did it once in public and the person I was with suddenly started pronouncing every meat and cheese like Tony Soprano, after I had already heard them pronounce those words as they're spelled. I never left the end vowel of an Italian meat or cheese name since.
That's interesting because in Italian we always pronounce a word in full. Italian phonetic is rather easy to learn. After one learns those few sounds not available in other languages, like "gl" and "gn", and corresponding phonetics such "ch" for k, all words are pronounced as they are written. However, the elision of words is very common in local languages and dialects, mostly in the South. Romans hardly pronounce a word in full, same in Naples, etc. This is also evident with many words used by Italian-Americans, which are mispronunciations of elided Italian words with an anglicized sound. So, the Italian word capocollo Is morphed into gabagool.
@@IndigoDallianceGrazie per avere risolto il mistero di questo gabagool che continuavo a sentire dappertutto e non riuscivo proprio a piazzare come parola esistente in italiano
2:13 "American who think they are Italian are passionate about where they don't come from." 😭😂
"Youre gonna be in my coat wit me, move!" LOL
This is friggin glorious! 🤣🤣🤣
Frankie gonna be wearing the concrete shoes
I never really got the sense that they claimed to be Italian. They claim to be italian-american
Europeans have hate boners for Americans with their own subculture
Those Sunday dinners are something else
Their name ends in a Vowel! 😂👌
Wow, it's almost like diaspora develop their own unique cultures based on a blend of where their ancestors came from mixed with where they live now. Who would've thought?
You're pointing out the obvious. The issue is these people calling themselves Italian and thinking they're the same thing as someone from Italy.
Ew, cringe
@@nyko921 sorry you can't handle reality
The laundry one got me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This was hilarious 😂
this is funny as fuck but italian americans are actually really cool. really nice people and most certainly italian even if not by nationality!
Jersey shore went to Italy once. They were so culturally lost
This is hilarious Love it
"They are both terrifying and tender at the same time" 🤣🤣🤣
I'd love to see you interview Americans who think they're Vikings because of their 1% Scandinavian DNA.
Real Italians approve of this 👏👏
“Oh you speak American!” Actually took me out😭
this is gold
Frankie my boy, when will you come to The Netherlands 🇳🇱 ?
This guy!
We’re making it out of the boot with this one
I’m an Italian American and laughed my ass off watching this. You nailed the stereotypes and I checked almost every single box. Sub’d 😅
Wow, I wouldn’t expect for there to be so many Italian people in Chinatown!
You hear bout the Chinese gawdfatha? He made them an offer they couldn’t understand.
Thank you for the genuine good laugh I got out of this comment
@@leonardoo6150 if you’re familiar with Lower Manhattan, it’s not even a joke IRL. It’s just funny to put it that way.
I saw precisely zero (0) Italian people in this video
@@masterjunky863 but what if a Chinese man was Italian?!?
I think a lot of what us americans view as "italian american" traits, like being load and using had gestures a lot and wearing chains and all of that stereotype stuff is more of an NYC thing than an italian thing. Everyone in NY is loud, it's not just them.
It is more similar to southern Italians than Italians in other regions, which fits with most of their ancestors being from the south.
kind of but its very south italian
@@rebeccahicks2392Southern Italian indeed, but brought to extremes to the point that it is caricatural and grotesque.
this guy straight up cooking in their face 😂😂
brilliant😂👏 and to echo a comment below, do the Boston Irish next.
You should do one on Cornish people who aren’t Cornish. A lot of us are very patriotic without a lick of Cornish blood. Mostly because our schools made us patriotic tbh. And we love Cornwall, and hate England.
Get a grip dude. I grew up in Cornwall, you're english.
They don't hate the english and there is no such thing as 'cornish blood'.
"There is no such thing as cornish blood." I guess let's erase the whole Cornish ethnicity and pretend like they don't exist, right? I don't know how can you be so ignorant for a person who grew up in Cornwall.@@seldom_bucket
@@seldom_bucketthe Welsh and Cornish were there long before the Anglo-Saxons. They are the Britons that fought Rome. The real descendants of boudica, Arthur and all the other kings of fairytales the English stole. Yes cornwall is mostly culturally assimilated into England but the culture is still distinct and the genetic make up is still different and the language is being revived.
As an Italian who lives in America, I cross the street to avoid them.
Haha that was awesome, thanks...
You're going to sleep with the fishes for this one.
Rofl, this is great!!!
In fairness, the average Italian American speaks much more Italian than the average native Irishman can speak Irish
I think it’s called Gaelic
Abair liom go bhfuil tú as Baile Átha Cliath, gan é sin a rá…
@@Itoshimi gaelic refers to multiple languages, not specifically Irish
@@Itoshimiit’s called gaeilge not Irish
Just not true whatsoever lol
Italian Americans don't "think" they're Italian. If you ask an American "what are you" and they say "Italian" (or Irish, or Chinese, or Nigerian...) it is with the implicit knowledge that there is a silent "-American" at the end. Because unless you're indigenous, we all ARE those ethnicities. We are part of a diaspora. All diasporas develop differences from the original culture...
This weird European superiority complex gets increasingly cringe.
America has its own cultural identity. Its especially cringe when Americans say they are from ## but have never been to thet country or grew up in that country
@user-zb6tb6ur4p 🤣🤣.
European superiority complex? As cringy as the stereotypical caricature displayed by these people (and I don't refer only to Italian-Americans)? I doubt it. More annoyed. You confuse the annoyance of seeing a stereotypical caricature for which we don't relate to as superiority complex. From our point of view, it's a cultural appropriation poorly made. You'd feel the same if someone from another country with some distant relation to your country and culture did a poor misinterpretation of your culture.
This is pure gold 😂
Man you are taking this content to the next level! This was based af hahaha
next up - Africans who think they are Irish
As a British Italian, I can say you're in our house now Frankie.