What Iliers and Italians have in common

Theoretically at least, Independent Long Island and Italy could not be more different, since the countries or nations speak an entirely different language, and they are separated by a vast body of water called the Atlantic Ocean. Yet the two also share a great deal in common.

By Most Rev. Dr. Cesidio Tallini

What do Independent Long Islanders or Iliers have in common with Italians?

For starters, both share as a Christmas tradition the female equivalent of Santa Claus, or la Befana. Both also enjoy good food and wine, and some even make their own food and wine.

Both Independent Long Island and Italy share a national reptilian species, the Italian wall lizard (Podarcis sicula). Both Independent Long Islanders and Italians love the sea, and are surrounded by it. However, the similarities do not end here.

Both Independent Long Islanders and Italians hate taxes, and both are overtaxed.

Both Independent Long Island and Italy have federal government entities that look down at them. Independent Long Island has the United States, while Italy has the European Union.

Both countries and nations have a capital that includes another geographic entity. Independent Long Island’s capital will probably be Brooklyn in the future, and it includes New York City, while Italy’s capital is Rome, which includes Vatican City.

Both Independent Long Island and Italy have a working top-level domain (TLD). Independent Long Island uses the .ILI TLD, while Italy uses .IT. Most Independent Long Islanders can’t talk to each other over the telephone without dialing a different area code before the number (718, 347, 917, 516, and 631 are the most commonly used area codes), but this is also true of most Italians.

Both Independent Long Island and Italy are divided. Independent Long Island is divided into West and East, while Italy is divided into North and South. Both had to be reunified starting from “the island”. With Independent Long Island the reunification process started from what was then known as Long Island, while Italy’s reunification process started with the island of Sicily.

Both had revolutionaries that had previously fought battles abroad. Independent Long Island’s Tallini fought battles in the Fifth and Sixth Worlds, while Garibaldi fought in Brazil and Uruguay.

Both Independent Long Islanders and Italians are very “matriotic”, since both are highly attached to their local area and family, and usually do not give a hoot about the Greater Nation, but they should!

Both Independent Long Islanders and Italians went to the Moon in cultural terms, and Independent Long Islanders even landed there when Grumman’s LEM landed on the Moon in July 1969.

Most Independent Long Islanders cannot speak Italian, and most Italians cannot speak English, and yet that is where virtually all the differences end!

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