Could I pass rather as Irish or as Italian or Italo-Irish in Brooklyn or neither?

[Yarddog]

I feel badly for you.
You are probably the most insecure person on this forum.
Perhaps you faced a devastating rejection or loss.

Volunteer at hospitals to help others......Volunteer at homeless shelters.....stop focusing on yourself and you will feel better about yourself

I can do all things, but it is better when you do all those things if you do not openly or loudly say you are a gypsy. That is the truth. And no one with a IQ of above 75 would see it that way.

Yul Brynner was a Gypsy. I dont think he had a problem with it, neither should you!
Though maybe shaving your head might help.

 

[Batcat]

I dont know really much about it but I think in the early 20th century Brooklyn was mostly Irish and/or Italian? Am I right?
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I dont know really much about it but I think in the early 20th century Brooklyn was mostly Irish and/or Italian? Am I right?
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When I graduated from high school one of my first jobs was delivering dry cleaning. The city I lived in had a large Italian population. Several of my Italian customers felt I was a nice Italian boy. I told them I was Irish, English Scottish and Pennsylvania Dutch and they told me I was wrong.

Today we get find out what our ancestry is by our DNA. Of course I had to find out if my mother had been messing around and I was part Italian.

Turns out I am mainly English, Irish and Germanic European (Dutch?) with a little Swedish, Norwegian and Scottish mixed in. No Italian at all.

So obviously my Italian customers were wrong.

 

[Devils_Advocate]

When someone ask you where are you from say Yugoslavia and leave it at that...

Why are you ashamed of your Roma ancestry anyway?

 

[Batcat]

When someone ask you where are you from say Yugoslavia and leave it at that...

Why are you ashamed of your Roma ancestry anyway?

I would not be ashamed of it if I was Italian. I can’t be proud of being something I am not either.

 

[Devils_Advocate]

When someone ask you where are you from say Yugoslavia and leave it at that...

Why are you ashamed of your Roma ancestry anyway?

I would not be ashamed of it if I was Italian. I can’t be proud of being something I am not either.

Mort is a Roma Serbian that has issues with his Roma heritage...

I just discovered back in February that my Aunt that raised me lied about my heritage and I am mostly French and German with a little Norwegian and Scottish dashed in...

I am glad that I found out because my Aunt kept claiming I was Eastern European and I truly despise the Slovaks...

So Mort shouldn’t try to see himself as something that he is not and should embrace his heritage no matter the stigmatism that the Roma have...

 

[.oldschool]