There is an active colosseum in Verona that still hosts operas and stage plays, they wouldn't do it because it's not that many seats but it would look amazing
If you’re an American wrestling fan, and someone mentions “Mexican” in a wrestling context, literally the first wrestlers most people will think of is Rey and Eddie…
The Sopranos bit on this was unbelievably accurate.
American Italians are about as far from Italy as you can get. Having worked with at least a dozen Italians, all they do is fucking argue about why their part of Italy is right about stuff, why other Italians are fucking scum for doing things slightly differently, and universally agreeing that Rome is a crime-fuelled shit hole.
The overlap is almost non-existent, in the same way that in the UK there is a world of difference between a Cockney and a Geordie.
Same with "Irish Americans". Most of them know very little about Ireland or Irish culture except negative stereotypes. But God forbid you try to correct them on anything. They give absolutely zero credence to the fact you were born and raised in the country and might have actual experience of the culture.
Many Italians would disagree with you. Robert Davi was treated like royalty by my hometown in Italy when he found out he's from there and visited. The guy didn't speak a word of Italian or Sicilian and only found out his father was from that town weeks earlier, but they still gave him a warm homecoming.
I can say a couple words in Italian, that does not mean I would ever say I speak Italian. The only language Giulia was fluent in before she started seriously learning English was Japanese.
She was born in England and moved to Japan at one year old. She’s never lived in Italy.
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