"Italic people are not the same as Italians. Because Italicity means belonging in the widest cultural sense. It doesn’t matter if you don’t speak the language ore aren’t a citizen of Italy. Because there are lots of people who emigrated from Italy and now third generation descendant doesn’t speak the language but still share a good portion of Italian values and interest. The focus should therefore be on the concept of diaspora rather than of migration. The crossing and re-crossing the world, nourishing its interconnections and network.(...)"