How come sicilians get to be called what they are and people refer to Calabrese ppl as just italians.
I dont get offended when ppl call me Italian but i would like to be called calabrese. The calabrese people are more like sicilians then Italians. After all calabria is right across from sicily. They both have the dark skin, jet black hair and their dialects are very similar. Like i can speak calabrese dialect and i communicate pefectly with my sicilian friend which is alot easier then with someone i know from Lazio which is more like the center of Italy

To answer your question, Sicilians are called Sicilians because they are a seperate island. Just like you would call someone who lives in Hawaii, Hawaiian instead of American.

The Calabresians may be a lot like Sicilians, but they are not.

Also, Sicily is very dependent from the rest of the country, being ruled over my many different forces. Way back when, their name would change every week, depending on who controlled them (i.e. the Greeks, Arabs, Romans, etc.) Instead, everyone just reffered to them as Sicilians.

Hope that I helped.

thanks.... i think ill know wat ill do since not many ppl know wat calabrese is, i could just tell them southern italian if they dont know, becuase everyone knows there is a vast difference between soutern and Northern Italian

Who has more greek blood calabrese or sicilian?