Fact Check: ARE ITALIANS THE SAME RACE AS AUSRAILAINS
“ARE ITALIANS THE SAME RACE AS AUSRAILAINS”
Summary
Italians belong to a European Mediterranean ethnic group with a genetic profile distinct from that of Australians, whose population is a mix of Indigenous peoples with deep, separate ancestry and later immigrants from many continents. Consequently, Italians and Australians are not the same race.
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- Population structure of modern-day Italians reveals patterns of ancient and archaic ancestries in Southern Europe | Science Advances
Sources for both GT and MALDER were grouped in different ancestries as indicated in the legend of Fig. 3 and fig. S8. The expression [1950 − (g + 1)*29], where g is the number of generation, was used to convert the GT and MALDER results into years. To explore the extent to which the European and Italian genetic variation has been shaped by ancient demographic events, we merged modern samples from FMD with 63 ancient samples selected from recent studies (data file S1) (4, 5, 8, 23, 33, 59–61).
- The Italian genome reflects the history of Europe and the Mediterranean basin | European Journal of Human Genetics
Recent scientific literature has highlighted the relevance of population genetic studies both for disease association mapping in admixed populations and for understanding the history of human migrations. Deeper insight into the history of the Italian population is critical for understanding ...
- Indigenous Australian genomes show deep structure and rich novel variation | Nature
The Indigenous peoples of Australia have a rich linguistic and cultural history. How this relates to genetic diversity remains largely unknown because of their limited engagement with genomic studies. Here we analyse the genomes of 159 individuals from four remote Indigenous communities, including ...
- Italy | naa.gov.au
In the 2021 Census, 1,108,364 Australians self-identified as having Italian ancestry.
- Australia’s history of anti-Italian racism echoes grotesquely in rhetoric about Sudanese people | Jeff Sparrow | The Guardian
In countries of Italian migration like the United States, Brazil, Argentina, and Australia, these theories fostered the idea that southern Italian migrants were not really white, that they were racially ambiguous, that they had a drop of black blood in their veins, and that they were the ‘Chinese of Europe’.
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- Italian Australians - Wikipedia
As O'Connor reports in his work on the first Italian settlements, when Italians began to compete with Britons for work on the Kalgoorlie goldfields, the Parliament was warned that they, along with Greeks and Hungarians, "had become a greater pest in the United States than the coloured races". In other words, during the 1890s, a political and social alliance was formed between the Australian ...
- Australians - Wikipedia
The Australian Bureau of Statistics does not collect data on race, but asks each Australian resident to nominate up to two ancestries each census. These ancestry responses are classified into broad standardised ancestry groups.