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Ita cult week 1
- 1. What is thefirst thing you associate to Italians? Cannoli? Spaghetti with meatballs?
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- 5. We’ll learn about • Italy’s contribution to American culture • Italy’s history from unification in 1861 • Geography • Identity issues • Regional linguistic differences • Italian art • Italian literature • Italian cinema …and much more!
- 6. Italians are thefourth largest European group in USA
- 7. About 5.5 millionItalians immigrated to the U.S. from 1820 to 2004
- 9. 4 million Italianscame to the US between 1880 and 1920 80% came from Southern Italy
- 11. Southern Italians wentto North America Northern Italian emigrated to Southern America
- 12. Primary causes foremigration (1898-1914) • Lack of modernization in agricultural system • Disease destroyed crops at end of the 1800s • Economy cannot compete with foreign products invading the Italian market • Price of wheat fell drastically
- 13. The invention ofsteamship gave impetus to emigration. • Enlisting laborers • arranging travel documents • booking passengers • lending money for the trip • selling the emigrant’s land and house became an important source of income
- 14. Factors that mighthave influenced the choice of the destination: • Previous immigrant flows • Information from the “new countries” • (supposed) Job opportunities
- 15. Most immigrants wherenon skilled workers
- 16. The project oftheir stay influenced the choice of occupation: • Masons • Stonecutters • Barbers • Shoemakers • Seamstresses
- 17. Most immigrants werefrom rural areas but settled in cities and suburbs forming “little Italies”
- 18. The unification ofItaly took place in 1861. • Until Fascism promoted the idea of a unified nation within one state, people felt a stronger tie to their “paese” (town) than to the “Stivale” (boot). • Most immigrants came to the US before the advent of Fascism. • Most were illiterate and the “national” heritage meant nothing to them.
- 19. In only acouple of decades Italians have excelled in all fields of endeavor … • Italian American directors and producers: Nicola Kim Coppola
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- 23. The Italian-American communities have often been characterized by strong ties with the Catholic Church…
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