Italy’s Constitutional Court has signaled support for a controversial law restricting citizenship by descent, a move that could block millions of people abroad from claiming Italian nationality.
The Kingdom of Italy before 1861 was only a tiny part of the italian peninsula. Before that there was a Kingdom of Italy as part of the Holy Roman Empire and then another Kingdom of Italy created by Napoleon. Modern Italy was created by the unification and annexation of a lot of kingdoms, duchies and so. This isn’t unique to Italy either, Germany was created in a very similar way and only started existing as one nation in 1871.
trivia to annoy Italians, napolitan immigrants arrived to America before Italian unification. they made pizza, therefore American Pizza predates Italian pizza on the technicality that Italy didn’t exist
If you want a mindfuck, check out what the Holy Roman Empire consisted of lol. Germany and central Europe used to be full of tiny kingdoms, principalities and whatnot.
Look at their parents. If they are both Italian, so is their offspring. How do you know if the parents are Italian? Look at their parents. If they are all Italian, the parents are Italian. How do you know if all of them are Italian? Look at their parents. Just look at parents until you come to the Etruscans and revoke everyone’s citizenship because there are no Italians.
🤔🥴 Somebody is going to have to explain that first sentence to me…
I know there was an “Italian Kingdom” around that time, did that change it’s status from something to a country?
The Kingdom of Italy before 1861 was only a tiny part of the italian peninsula. Before that there was a Kingdom of Italy as part of the Holy Roman Empire and then another Kingdom of Italy created by Napoleon. Modern Italy was created by the unification and annexation of a lot of kingdoms, duchies and so. This isn’t unique to Italy either, Germany was created in a very similar way and only started existing as one nation in 1871.
trivia to annoy Italians, napolitan immigrants arrived to America before Italian unification. they made pizza, therefore American Pizza predates Italian pizza on the technicality that Italy didn’t exist
The earliest pizzeria in the US opened in 1905, long after Italy existed as a nation-state.
that’s assuming that napolitans did not make pizza in the US until they opened a pizzeria.
Thanks, that helped a lot… I didn’t even consider many smaller kingdoms. Don’t know why.
If you want a mindfuck, check out what the Holy Roman Empire consisted of lol. Germany and central Europe used to be full of tiny kingdoms, principalities and whatnot.
It was a bit of a mess
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Italian-unification.gif
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Italy
Thanks. That graphic is great.
Look at their parents. If they are both Italian, so is their offspring. How do you know if the parents are Italian? Look at their parents. If they are all Italian, the parents are Italian. How do you know if all of them are Italian? Look at their parents. Just look at parents until you come to the Etruscans and revoke everyone’s citizenship because there are no Italians.
the sentence says: is the person applying an immediate descendent of a parent who is an Italian citizen?
That’s it, no grandparent or great grandparent lineage anymore. Is your mom or dad, a legal Italian citizen?