Italian people

The Italians are a Western European Latin ethnic group primarily associated with Italy and the Italian language.

Immigrants to Italy

Today immigrants from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia are coming to Italy both legally and illegally but are not present in great numbers like they are in France. It is interesting to note that hostility towards Arab and North African Muslim peoples is very intense in Italy. One theory holds that along with Spain and Greece, Italy was one of the main entry points of Islamic armies into medieval Europe. Because of the fact that Italians had to defeat and drive out these people in the past, there is a feeling of contempt toward them in modern Italian culture, which is not found in the more northern countries of Europe, which were isolated from Muslim invasion.

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