It's the times Nicky. Back in the early 20th century Italians immigrated to the USA due to overpopulation, poor living conditions, and economic woes. Just like everyone else they wanted a better life and found it in America. These days Italy is trying to "keep" the younger population within the country because the older generation is getting larger and no ones making babies anymore. Italy is actually offering dual citizenship to people in the USA, Canada, and brazil who are of Italian descent. Bottom line is you won't ever have that kind of large scale immigration again, especially not from Europe.
I think you have to have a parent that is an Italian citizen in the US for them to have dual citizenship with Italy, no?
Take my kids for example. My husband is not an american citizen, so when my kids were born here in the US, they automatically have dual citizenship with Italy. Is that what you mean?
Yes. Thank you for clearing that up carm. It is true though that Italy is having trouble getting people to have kids? I hear their population is going down dramatically especially within the next 30 years
I can only speak for sicily and even then only can speak for family. And as far as my and my husband's family is concerned....they're like rabbits. I dont even think the ink of the marriage certificate is dry and I'm buying baby gifts to take over. Big big families, lots of kids and quick...one right after another. But I can't speak for the entire country. It is true, though, that out of the archaeic cities that I go to, they are going to university more and more, becoming educated, and getting married later in life and even living together now before marriage. But not where I go. lol
And another thing, these people are happy. They wouldn't leave their country for anything. Life is hard, work is hard to come by, but they're happy just being with each other and eating. lol
If you go where I stay, you'd think it was nothing short of the ghetto. My husband only came here to get away from the wars in the 90's. It was getting too bad and too much heat, so they left. The wars aren't happening that way anymore, so people are content to stay put and feel safe.
