@hyperphonk@GiuseppeAttar17 As to whether we can be classified as “white” or “white enough” I can’t say, because everyone’s definition is going to vary. But you’re always welcome to visit the country and see for yourself 😉
@hyperphonk@GiuseppeAttar17 Fair enough, but we’re genetically close to Southern Italians because we’re descended from them. The idea that there was any large-scale mixing with non-European ethnicities simply isn’t supported by the evidence.
@hyperphonk@GiuseppeAttar17 The language is Semitic because the Sicilian settlers brought their Siculo-Arabic dialect with them. But language doesn’t always align with genetic ancestry. Hungarian is a Uralic language, but nobody thinks of Hungarians as a Uralic people in the same sense as the Finns.
@hyperphonk@GiuseppeAttar17 “Bleached Arabs”? Never heard that one before. You seem to have some pretty strange ideas about our country, mate. The Maltese have similar Y-DNA haplogroup distributions as Southern Italians.
@AuronMacintyre “Mental illness” implies that the condition can be treated. But it can’t, at least not through any conventional medicine, for it is a sickness of the soul.