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Neither. They are slight tanned, like most people from countries around the Mediterranean Sea.

Neither. They are slight tanned, like most people from countries around the Mediterranean Sea.

Neither. They are slight tanned, like most people from countries around the Mediterranean Sea.

Neither. They are slight tanned, like most people from countries around the Mediterranean Sea.

Neither. They are slight tanned, like most people from countries around the Mediterranean Sea.

Neither. They are slight tanned, like most people from countries around the Mediterranean Sea.

Neither. They are slight tanned, like most people from countries around the Mediterranean Sea.

Neither. They are slight tanned, like most people from countries around the Mediterranean Sea.

Neither. They are slight tanned, like most people from countries around the Mediterranean Sea.

Neither. They are slight tanned, like most people from countries around the Mediterranean Sea.

Neither. They are slight tanned, like most people from countries around the Mediterranean Sea.

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Some Italians are partly descendant of Islamic African (moors) settlers/invaders. There are reports that show Italians from Sicily have on average 10% African ancestry. Also, keep in mind that Rome, an empire headed in what is now modern day Italy, had people from all over the empire live there.

But genetics aside, Italians are just Italian; as the majority of its population has been homogenized. Culturally, they have very little in common with African cultures, and in the United States, Italian immigrants and their descendents are classified as Caucasian due to similar genetic and cultural traits with other Caucasians.

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http://ethnicgenome.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/sicilians-have-10-sub-saharan-african-dna/

http://www.niaf.org/research/statistics.asp

Thomas A. Guglielmo, White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945, 2003, ISBN 0-19-515543-2

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Only the ones who are partly descendants of blacks

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Neither. They are slight tanned, like most people from countries around the Mediterranean Sea.

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