John Turturro Reflects on his Family Emigrating from Italy to the United States
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- Опубліковано 18 лют 2020
- John Turturro witnesses the moment his grandfather became an American citizen in 1930 through this document in his Book of Life.
#FindingYourRoots airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on PBS. In the February 18 episode, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of talk show-host Jimmy Kimmel and actors Marisa Tomei and John Turturro, introducing them to ancestors who made immense sacrifices to bring their families from Italy to America.
Watch the full episode at: www.pbs.org/findingyourroots
John Turturro said something that touched me and made me think of my mother. To leave your country and all that you know to another country where you don't know the language or anyone and to "GO AT IT ALONE" bless my mother's heart for being brave enough to want more in life for herself and her children. THANKS MOM
I did that ... It's not easy to be a foreigner anywhere... But u evolve as a human for it 🙄😩😛🙃👻💞💚👌💪💪💪👁️🦉🦉🦉🦉✝️☯️✝️
Same story with my family. The reason I'm here is because of my grandparents making that same journey, leaving their language and village behind. There was no internet back then so you were really going alone. It's quite a brave thing to do and I'm so grateful they did.
One of the most underrated male actors ever !!!
Io l'ho conosciuto grazie all'interpretazione di vari film fatti su Trasformers, grande John, orgoglio della Sicilia😍👏👏
I’ve always liked him ❤️
I love this guy. I was introduced to him via Spike Lee movies, and I've followed his career since. Oh Brother, Where art thou? & Men of Respect are 2 of my favorites (Aside from his Spike Lee movies)
Italian Roots
Season 6 Episode 9 | 52m 41s is priceless to me because as a result I have learned more about my Aunt Katherine, My Father Fred and actually had the chance to see a picture of my grandparents for the first time. Thank you to John Turturro for appearing on this episode to talk about it. I have had a bunch of unanswered questions about my Dad Fred for many years of my life.
His accent is wonderful
Wht accent...... 🤷
@@gato0082 none :D
@@badcassandra2915 it's OK....🕊️🎄✨🎄🕊️✝️🕊️💚🎄🎄🎄
Priceless! ⭐⭐⭐⭐
i like john turturro many families left europe for one reason jobs, and the end of the war and many places were destroyed by bombs. leaving italy for example a country with amazing culture, history, food and how they rebuild their country to one of the most beutiful place on earth.
I REALLY LOVE JOHN HE IS A VERY GOOD ACTOR 🎭 ONE OF MY FAVORITE GOD BLESS HIM ALWAYS AMEN AND HIS FAMILY AMEN 🙏 AND GOD BLESS ALL MY COUNTRY MAN ITALIANO 🇮🇹 AROUND THE WORLD AMEN 🙏🇺🇸🇮🇹🇮🇪🇩🇴🌻🌞🙏❤️
Ciao.... Fratello.....✝️🌫️🌫️🌫️✨💞💚👁️
Grazie ✨✨✨✨beautiful clip 💞💞💞💞✝️💖🇮🇹
I've only ever remembered John Turturro from Transformers, but it was enough to instantly add him to my list of favourite actors.
This is a common story. But what I know about my Great Grandparent’s journey is incredible. My Great Grandfather came over first with my Grandfather. They went to Detroit. At some point my Grandfather got to Pittsburg CA. But the crazy part is taking one of those ships from Sicily to the US would have been bad enough one time. My Great Grandmother made MULTIPLE trips by herself to bring her other 8 children over. She couldn’t bring them all at once! Sicily to Ellis Island to Pittsburg CA many times!
Every person who claims the US to be theirs, only theirs, and scoffs at "immigrants", needs to have a good hard look at their own history. Someone at some point went through a lot of trouble and hard work to get you and me here.
speak for yourself
@@chosenpaul3187 Bruh if you ain’t native Americans at some point your ancestors were immigrant dumbass.
@@youtriggeredbtch7845 Even Native Americans came from Asia 10-20,000 years ago.
@@chosenpaul3187 your ancestor was an immigrant too
@@chosenpaul3187 change your mind or you still an asshole?
I thought his grandfather's name was Nicola, the guitar maker.
I want to see his total admixture results….he looks like he has some middle eastern or subsaharan ancestry . Show us the total results
You stole my story
If you live anywhere in the Americas, chances are you descend from immigrants, be it voluntary or forced. Since the Europeans managed to wipe out the original population, today the numbers are disproportionately higher in favor of us. My great-grandparents immigrated from Italy to Brazil in the 1800s to work in the coffee farms, eventually buying some land of their own. Up to my generation, they lived in secluded Italian communities, barely speaking the country's language Portuguese, and decided that me and my brothers and cousins should not grow up speaking our family's mother language, since they saw it as a step back in the new world. I wish they had done it differently though, I'd love to be fluent in Italian like they were. Now that the generation before mine is dying off, a part of our history is going with them.
Languages r a beautiful thing the more u can speak the more the world opens up to u.
I think it was a good move.Sure it's kind of sad to lose your original culture after a generation, but on the other hand Brazil hardly has any ghettos, and no talk whatsoever about being italo-brazilian, spanish-brazilian as if it was somehow a thing to be noticed. You are just five-times world champion brazilian, and that's it. :)
@Wolong Gong He was talking about the Tupi in Brazil. He is also wrong, since they were not "wiped out". But yes, they were forced into labor and many were killed.
@Wolong Gong There's no written history but there's an oral history, from which anthropologists learned more about them. They were in constant warfare between tribes, although their war was "cerimonal", the aim was to capture the high rank people and....eat them. hahahahaha
@@ricardocima hardly any ghettos 😂😂😂
Not a good move leave Italy just saying
Skipped Mussolini. I’d say that’s a great move.
Didn't investigate as deeply as with Jessica Alba.
Complexion - dark! The Americans and their racism! Happy to be European!
I think : the term dark here refers to his past and his family, the hard times when they came in.
Not dark about skin colors or such
@@rijusnar5910 Do you know what complexion means? He is reading…..Not talking about the past
@@alebhard you were overinterpreting
@@rijusnar5910 Complexion is SKIN COLOR 🙄 America is obsessed with anti blackness anti darkness. It's sick. It makes dark people twist themselves into pretzels chasing this disgusting idea of wt supemacy. I'm glad I live in Rome and my kids know nothing of this perverted ideology
@@rijusnar5910 You need a dictionary dude
John from transformers
Welcome to the “dark complexed” Raphael Turtorro! 😊
If you are 100% italian Blood from new york you are italian american, if you are 100 italian Blood from argentina or Uruguay you are "latino", a xenofobic term.
If you are any ethnicity born in a Spanish/portugese speaking country, then technically you are hispanic/latino. That is why Germans in Brazil are considered white latinos.
@@Sean-jc6cu technically?....then a american with a polish roots whats is? A popeslavic?
The funny part of all this is latino/latina is an Italian word. The word Latin does not exist in the Italian language. It is always Latino/Latina in the Italian language. The U.S. corrupted an Italian word to mean anyone south of the U.S. border for racist census data.
I've heard many European Italians speak of American Italians as different from them. Same with the Irish. If you are born in America you are American but with Italian ancestry which is different from a native Italian.
@@nicolelabram5575 Correct. A person, even if they have all their recent ancestry from Italy, will be more than likely culturally different if they were born and fully assimilated to the U.S. If a person had Italian ancestry, but never visited Italy, doesn't speak Italian, or has no contact with relatives in modern day Italy, their outlook will be totally different from an Italian perspective. On the other hand, another person who speaks modern Italian language, travels to Italy to keep in touch with relatives, keeps up with current events in Italy, and has dual Italian citizenship will still be seen in Italy as an American (since they were born in the U.S.), but way more Italian than the first person I used as an example. So it depends on the personal circumstances. Most Italians would not consider a Italian-American, regardless of how much DNA they have from Italian ancestors, fully Italian unless that person moved back to Italy and totally assimilated back into modern Italian culture. Having Italian ancestry and having a good understanding of modern Italian culture (NOT what grandparents told you what Italy was like 100 years ago!) are NOT the same thing! The same would apply to American's of Irish ancestry.
Wow he looks Jewish.
He’s got the East African features or we got it from the Italians 🤔🧐
Lots of Italians have Ethiopian and Horner blood.
@@LynRuiz that’s interesting
I didn’t know that
I’m Italian but I’m a mix of loads of other things .... very pale lol
Most likely has Sicilian roots being of a darker complexion. Sicily and her people were conquered, colonized and ruled over by many foreigners in which has changed the original bloodline. Being that from Africa and middle east by thr moors- the arabs and berbers (darker skinned).
He does not look Jewish. He is a classic swarthy Sicilian
@@chrislesher8119 and Normans, which resulted in many sicilians being blond with light colored eyes
He should at least be able to pronounce his grandfather's name correctly
He has Nappy Hair! HAHAHAHA!
Why is that funny?
Is that your actual legal surname? I’m asking because a lot of folks that migrated from Europe changed their names to McDonald McKinnon, Mackenzie etc.
John has lovely curly hair.
Many of us Italians do. It’s not pure in the southern part of Europe. Doesn’t change the fact we have the greatest culture and country on earth but there you go❤️😂 ITALY RULES 🇮🇹
He likes 99% of italian americans are South italian ancestrally. The free central and North Italians were deemed as belonging to Celtic race. Duh.