I Believe In America: Italian Immigration to Boston

[LLOYD19851012]

America was found by an Italian explorer named Amerigo Vespucci in the 1500. So you could say America is part of Italy.

[RidirichdFlann]

Northern Italian blood here, most people think I am German though, lol.

[tichergeorge]

@RidirichdFlann they thought i was spanish

[RidirichdFlann]

@tichergeorge Your southern or Sicilian then aye? :P

[xxTorixx90]

What songs did you use?

[justjoking123456]

this is a good doccumentary! my exhibit made it to district for DISD and im excited for it (it's this saturday) . mines about the debate over offshore drilling. :)

[ruairidevine]

Oh come on, the reason for Italian gangs was not to protect them from the Irish.

[solf08]

@lucasandrade6

And give us the Amerindians and blacks percentage??? U guys also had one of the largest slave trade percentage of black to the Americas...

[abrett2010]

wow! questo è stato un documentario davvero buono. Devo scrivere un documento in posa come un immgrant italiana e deve indicare a tutti ciò che ho di fronte immigrare qui. Mi parlano anche l'italiano, chiaramente:) Io felice può parlare con persone che parlano italiano con me. vi amo tutti

[unfukkkmee]

BRITISH AND JEWS NEEDS MANY KICKS

[LarryScottBB]

60.000.000 of italian lives in Italy....70.000.000 of italian lives out of Italy...

[lucasandrade6]

@LarryScottBB

with full or partial Italian ancestry outside of Italy.

italian people....wikipedia

[unfukkkmee]

@LarryScottBB ARE NOT MANY ITALIANS IMMIGRANTS STOP PROPAGANDA MOST IMMIGRANTS IN EUROPE ARE TURKS AND SLAVS AND ISLAM

[lucasandrade6]

Brazil is home to 25 million Italian Brazilians, the largest number of people with full or partial Italian ancestry outside of Italy. Brazil 25 million Argentina 20 million United States 17.8 million



[soccergirl472]

IM italiani e dico che è davvero impressionante causa sono la lingua è più difficile che parlare francese! GO ITALIA!

[thecrazygentleman]

I used the information in your video for a project they gave me at school :) My father has relatives in Argentina, but he has lost contacts with them. Il tuo italiano va bene, devi solo migliorare le preposizioni che sono l'unica cosa che hai sbagliato (ma stai tranquillo che anche tanti italiani madrelingua le sbagliano).

[thecrazygentleman]

angelina masciari' s accent is very similar to one of my girlfriend that is from Basilicata. I think she might be from Campania or Basilicata. se capisci l'italiano volevo dire che hai fatto un gran bel video! complimenti!

[chromepro1]

grazie, sono contento che ti piaccia...ed penso che hai raggione degli accenti perche Angelina Masciari (la mia nonna) è di Calabria, vicino a Basilicata

[lavpaiva1]

nos eua tem muitos imigrantes italianos tbm ?

[pupipawd]

i am doing nhd and i need ideas.

[lavpaiva1]

eu sou brasileiro e dessendente de italianos o brasil foi a nasao que mais recebeu italianos .

[chromepro1]

grande, ti ha piacato il film? parli italiano?

[soccergirl472]

@chromepro1 yea lingua italiana è impressionante! Thats bene perché io sono itian grazie xD nice vid

[jaaackiie126]

Wow, this is a really good documentary. There was a lot of information in it, and you had a good use of an interview. I was in NHD this year. Check out my video! I need some feedback

[brushstroke]

la cosa nostra does not come from american dumbass try sicily witch it has been around for a long time luciano started turning the mob into a money making industry instead of just taxes and protection pretty much went from a form of government to a business.

[chromepro1]

that's true, but that is not what im arguing, im saying that the irish gave italians in boston more to fight against, encouraging more radical gangs, such as the mafia.

[brushstroke]

well yea the irish will cut off your head and sit down and finish there drink they where not going to want anyone comeing and taking there money

[brushstroke]

they said the mafia was made because of the irish yea ummmmm stupid this is bad info

[deviltai]

reminds me of the Godfather

[brushstroke]

.....fuck you

[onghiy]

remember :colombo and amerigo vespucci

[devulboy1]

What a good documentary, I heard about the time when the Italians arrived they seem to angered the Irish community of Boston alot more than the "WASPs". How did the Germans, Poles & Jews of all nationalities felt about Italians in the late 19th/early 20th century? The Greeks, Portuguese, Armenians & French Canadians also settled in Boston at the time, another part of the immigrant experience. Despite Italians held on living in the North End, it's now a gentrified & diverse neighborhood.+

[gallinellanikita]

where can I find the speach that Rocco Brindisi, honorary Consul in Boston did at the Synphonic Hall in Boston in defense of Sacco and Vanzetti around 1927?

thank you

[resliders]

By the way, why didn't your video even make it to district?

[chromepro1]

i dont know, lol, i guess the people that judged us were irish ;D and we stated that irish were against the italians lol, nahhh just kidding, im not sure why...

[resliders]

Wow, thats ironic (the Irish thing). Our coach for my area doing NHD is Scottish, and I believe she is a judge this year, like previous years! She is pretty nice though... Maybe the video did not do too well because the video was really close to 10:00 minutes, or becuase you said 'uh' in the videos. IDK, I am just guessing. Those judges can be pretty strict...

[chromepro1]

yeah probably, also u can see our NHD from last year in my profile, Cambodian Genocide. That is the first version, the real version is much better and with a proper intro. But check out the first version and see the interviews.

thanks

[resliders]

How did you do on the Cambodian Genocide? Me and my partner have emailed Yoko Ono aksing her for questions on John Lennon and all of his good crap! I guess that can count as an interview... I like your Cambodian Genocide one by the way! Good job! :-)

[chromepro1]

Nice job, and thanks for the comment. We went on to districts, and that was all.

[resliders]

I think your video is great!! Our theme is Individuals: Actions and Legacies. We are doing John Lennon. Its pretty bad that your video did not even make it to district. This is my first time participating in History Day, so wish me luck!!

[fdsajkl684]

Did this make it for state finals?????

[chromepro1]

no, not even to district

[infovobis]

All these people come from the poor south...In my family a lot of people emigrated but we dont't know where they are if they are alive...

[godfatherson69]

This was great, my great grandfather came in through boston in 1908....thanks for posting, this is the 1st 9 minute video i've ever watched on youtube....great job... "THE PAISAN FROM PSL"

[italiandevilish]

who can do a video on the italian tragedy of new orleans or tallullah?

[Marj2377]

cuz.... lots of them were chained down on boats against their free will. Columbus did not discover America by the way.

[ForzaJersey]

Well, after his voyage, Europeans came to America. So, Columbus is important.

[90klop]

black people and native americans are perhaps the only non-immigrants groups in the US

[guiguox]

black people came from africa. they are non immigrants just in africa, i suppose.

[Corntown503]

@90klop Native Americans, definitely not immigrants. Yet African Americans are still immigrants. Even though the vast majority of African Americans was brought over as slaves, many also came by own will.

[muzikmafia27]

This was good. We are learning about immigrants in school, and it's like the only thing I find interesting. Italian immigration esspecially, like Little Italy in NYC. Maybe it's all that Godfather stuff getting to my head...

[Lissidini908]

yea but guess were all italians went to people ARGENTINA ...there are more italians in Argentina than in the United States...and Argentina has the highest concentration of italian people in the world...CIAO

[2spacci1duro5]

this is really good dude

[chromepro1]

Yeah we got honorable mention

[MJohnnyboy]

Did you get honorable mention in the first round?

[chromepro1]

Mateo is his name, and he works as a teacher at Dante Alighieri, sorry for the misunderstanding

[Pertelot]

Pellagra e malaria where tipical issues of southern Italy, wich Mussolini tried to solve by land reclaimations(quite successfully). BTW, the old man doing a speech at 2:38, what's his name? Matteo(like me) or Dante Alighieri(like the poet)?

[riccardoro85]

The 99% of them were come from the south Italy...

[italiandevilish]

it's not really ....read the orda of gian antonio stella-......in south american were more the northern italy

[refi77]

nice

[EnRicoTesoro]

i cry for my people....but they had nothing in it about italians being seen as non-white....and we are niot but theats a different debate

[hatchbx]

Enrico, good point. Irish weren't considered white either for decades. Irish and Italians were pitted against each other, like many Latinos and African Americans are now. And we have many Irish and Italian Americans now opposing Mexican migrants. History repeats itself.

[trackseventeen]

well the Irish were considered white, It was thier catholocism was thier reason for discrimination.. the mafia was not a result of the Irish... I never heard that before...

[SVBerk65]

This is a pretty interesting project but the production could be better.

States PA Tomorrow!!!!

[chromepro1]

I made this video with my friends this year for nhd and the theme was triumph and tragedy

[TriumphandTragedy]

what year was this documentary made? what was the theme?

[P1ut0]

I like all of your tags... borat, soccer. I think this was good! Regionals is in a few days for me. I did a team documentary

[onenonlymike]

no!

[chromepro1]

Just to know, this video did not go on in the competition