Italian Immigration There was little Italian emigration to theUnited Statesbefore 1870. However, Italy was now one of the most overcrowded countries in Europe and many began to consider the possibility of leaving Italy to escape low wages and high taxes. Most of these immigrants were from rural ...
Southern Italy (Mezzogiorno), the source of more than 75 percent of immigration to the United States, was an impoverished region possessing a highly stratified, virtually feudal society. The bulk of the population consisted of artisans (artigiani), petty landowners or sharecroppers (contadini), and...
根据第一段TheFeastoftheSevenFishesisanItalian-Americantraditionthatdatesbacktoanimmigration(移民)waveinthe1900s.(七鱼盛宴是意大利裔美国人的传统,可以追溯到20世纪初的移民浪潮。)和第二段AvastmajorityofItalianimmigrantstotheUnitedStateswerefromruralSouthernItalyattheturnofthe19thcentury.TheycametoAmericabecause...
The Feast of the Seven Fishes is an Italian-American tradition that dates back to an immigration (移民) wave in the 1900s. The Italian American tradition of the “Feast of the Seven Fishes” has appeared in movies and recently in the hit show The Bear. But talking of the origin, you’...
From 1880 to 1920, Buenos Aires experienced a massive wave of Italian immigration, similar to the one that was happening simultaneously in New York City. "In the 1900s, 12% of Argentinian population was actually Italian," said Adrian Glickman. "So, Italians pretty much set the pace not onl...
The history of Panther Hollow,one of Pittsburgh’s first Italian neighborhoods, is the quintessential story of the immigration experience in America. Early settlers began arriving in the late 1800s, largely from the two small towns of Gamberale and Pizzoferrato – humble peasants in search of ho...