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Originally Posted by Vulgaris
Northern Italians are completely errant if they believe they have any right to suggest racial superiority over their Southern countrymen. It's completely ridiculous.
They are not German nor Celtic - they are Italian.
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There's no need of preposterous history lessons, since the mere fact of physical appearance is, for practical purposes, more revealing than every conceivable genetical test - which should nonetheless be encouraged.
One should know next to nothing about this country, in order to come to the conclusion that differences within its people are only the artificial hallucination of some wannabes.
As Coon acknowledged in the period of Italy's most striking unity and cohesion,
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No country in Europe in which one language and one cultural tradition prevail shows a greater diversity of race between its southern and its northern extremities than does Italy.
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The appreciation of this diversity doesn't imply southern inferiority (which necessarily depends on the standards which are to be assumed), nor inherently suggests the convenience of splitting what ultimately is the outcome of the forcible conquest and annexation of the peninsula by the Sabaudian kingdom of Piedmont.