Frankie Grande, 40, announces he is officially an Italian citizen

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3 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

Can someone please check if Gaga is still breathing?

She is gonna follow suit soon, being Italian  

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With so many Italians who don’t have citizenship but are Italian, how is this fair? This stupid ancestry scheme honestly, makes me think of Hitler’s genetic pie charts !! 
 

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56 minutes ago, TheSine said:

I can't tell if I'm suppose to say congratulations or nooo from looking at the comments.

Both! He can be happy and take advantage of it, but it’s dead wrong (I’m sure he doesn’t even speak Italian) ! He’s not a criminal or a bad guy or anything; just it’s a middle finger to all those of Italian origin who don’t have citizenship. There dozens of thousands of such people, mostly children and teens who have lived in Italy all their lives who still can’t have citizenship because of racist laws

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So why is it so difficult for some non-citizens to gain citizenship if not for xenophobia?

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I don't get the slight shade towards him. It's just assumed he doesn't speak Italian and not proven, and it can be presumed the only reason he doesn't have citizenship is because his great grandparents immigrated to the US. Their family seems to still embrace their Italian roots, with him and Ariana having always called their grandma nonna and Ariana speaking on the culture on several occasions. I think people who immigrated to Italy should be allowed to stay/live there under a vast number of reasons, but why are they more entitled to Italian citizenship after 10-20 years than somebody who's family contributed to the development of the country for generations?

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lol there was a tweet that said he is 40 and people should start calling him Frank

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I legitimately and sincerely thought he was like 23. Slay gurl 

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How is his age relevant to the rest of this information LOL

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52 minutes ago, TortureMeOnReplay said:

 

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3 hours ago, Neroneau said:

With so many Italians who don’t have citizenship but are Italian, how is this fair? This stupid ancestry scheme honestly, makes me think of Hitler’s genetic pie charts !! 
 

I do think that it's unfair that people born, raised and still living in Italy don't have this right. 

But you have to view this from another perspective. I'm an Italian immigrant living in a country near Italy. I speak fluently Italian, went to Italian school and grew up "very Italian". So, I do identify myself as Italian and I couldn't be happier with this "ancestry right".

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slay king

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Does he even speak Italian??? 

Its honestly not Frankie’s fault, he’s just taking advantage of the extremely discriminatory, arbitrary, xenophobic, racist politics to be a citizen in many European countries, it’s the same **** in Spain 

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Not Google autotranslating on mobile. 💀

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8 hours ago, Levine said:

This caused a bit of storm here, because there are non italian people who were actually born and raised here and still didn't get the italian citizen, while he can't even speak italian - I suppose - got it. 

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"I repeat this paradox: an American who does not speak Italian, has never lived in Italy, has never attended Italian schools is considered more Italian than a person of Ghanaian origin born and raised in Italy only because the former has great-grandparents from Molise."

 

 

"I've been here for 13 years waiting to be able to request it but I don't have enough money since I need an income of at least 8k stable per year and I'm currently at university. But he knows how to say Ciao and Buon Giorno, so that's fine."

I do not understand why ancestry matters so much to ppl and or institutions or governments

 

It is interesting to hear about ur families history but that's all it is... Interesting

 

In most cases what they went thru or didn't isn't the same situation with u and it's not really relevant

 

Focusing specifically on heritage and nationality for a moment since that's the OP, personally I am of Portuguese background but I do not live there and I was not born there. So I have a heritage but I'm not a true Portuguese as far as I'm concerned even tho my parents got me citizenship when we lived there for a few years

 

Don't get me wrong I still appreciate the culture a lot and those roots! But if my parents hadn't gotten me citizenship I wouldn't bother to try to get it for myself now. My main nationality is Canadian cuz that's where I was born and that's where I live, Portuguese is just my background 

 

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Why are people mad at him though? Up until this point he wasn't even eligible to vote for Italian laws anyway. Blame the institutions