You're right. Half Italian against a full Italian, the winner will be the full Italian. It was really only Carmine Galante who cared about that sort of things. He didn't take the chance of an arguement over a half Italian and instead took born Sicilian's and made them into his family. All of the made-members now in the Bonanno crime family probably have Italian born fathers because of what Carmine Galante did. Now it isn't a BIG deal as it was in the 1920s-60s, but will only make American's or American's that have a small Italian background so no beef is held.