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It’s generally agreed that the most popular Italian-American in Hollywood were from the seventies and the eighties. That’s because they were often first generation from immigrant parents and the link to their roots still very well regarded in their life.   Younger generations often have it in the name but sometime they have lost touch with m...

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The movie documents the experience of Italian immigrants in California, which was markedly different from that of their compatriots elsewhere in the United States. Through stories set in seven Italian communities throughout California, this film examines how economic and social mobility became possible for many Italians in the Golden State.  ...

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by James Estrin   Strolling along Mulberry Street in Little Italy during this year's Feast of San Gennaro, visitors passed stands selling zeppole and sausage and peppers as vendors hawked "Fuggedaboudit" T-shirts and "Godfather"-themed trinkets. But when they reached St. Patrick's Old Cathedral at the corner of Prince Street, the atmosphere...

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Leaving his Italian homeland for the United States in 1979, Lino Tagliapietra brought closely held recipes for battuto, zanfirico, reticello, pulegoso, martelé. For the next several decades in workshops around the country, he taught those glass-making techniques to Americans hungry for new skills.   In turn, his own creative appetite was nou...

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Con lo svolgimento degli Stati Generali dell'associazionismo degli italiani nel mondo, una lunga fase di discussione e confronto è stata portata a termine. Il processo di autoriforma delle associazioni ha rappresentato un forte e visibile dato di rinnovamento nell'analisi e di innovazione nelle prospettive, promosso all'interno della più vasta real...

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Quasi cinque milioni sono gli italiani che attualmente vivono all' Estero e di questi moltissimi sono i giovani che cercano fortuna nelle Università straniere, particolarmente in quelle degli Stati Uniti e del Canada. Ma quali sono al momento le possibilità di cooperazione universitaria e di ricerca oltre oceano?   A questa e ad altre d...

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Telling a story in pictures is Little Italy, the newest addition to Arcadia Publishing's popular Images of America series. The book by local author Chris Dorer is set to release on August 17, 2015. The book boasts 200 vintage images, many of which have never been published, and showcases memories of days gone by.   Originally called Alta Vil...

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Secondo l'Aire all'1 gennaio 2013 i cittadini italiani residenti fuori dei confini nazionali erano 4.341.156, il 7,3% dei circa 60 milioni di italiani residenti in Italia. L'aumento rispetto allo scorso anno è di 132.179 iscrizioni, +3,1% rispetto al 2012.   La ripartizione continentale rimarca che la maggior parte degli italiani residenti f...

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In times of spending review Italian institutions are trying, more or less, to rationalize their costs: we have to say, with mixed results. The complex system which belongs to the Farnesina, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs which performs many activities to represent our country all over the world, weighs on the state budget for a measly 0.2%...

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They survived the worst ever migrant catastrophe in the Mediterranean, but now a group of refugees find themselves in a surreal new environment – a former US military base in Sicily that has been turned into a vast encampment for the desperate and dispossessed.   The 16 adult survivors of Sunday's disaster, in which a boat capsized off the c...

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