Italy isn’t as diverse as the United States. Mostly everyone has dark hair (or previously dark hair, dyed garish colors), and is white. The Asian population is extremely low, and whenever you see large groups of Asian people, you know that it’s a tour group, and you’re near the tourist section. My friends Erica and Fire are both Asian, and dislike that they always look like tourists based on their skin color.
That said, Veneto is a racist region. It’s the wealthiest part of Italy, and thus hates all the poor people “eating their tax money”. This essentially means Southern Italians. It threw me off: sure, in the US, we have some friendly adversity towards the South (hehe, they have an accent and tried to succeed lol), but it’s more like New Zealand and Australia instead of Ireland or Belgium. In any case, that racism and bias is also thrown towards Africans. There was a Maddox post a long time ago (they all are, after all..) about how “African-American” is a silly term, since not all black people are American. It always surprises me here that most of the black population is from actual Africa, which is after all, not very far at all. It’s actually really cool! Minus the whole racism part. It’s unfortunate, as most of the black population speaks better English than the Italians, and yet they are still poorer on average. One African man asked me if I was scared of black people, which I thought was ridiculous.
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