Do Italians think they are descendats of the Romans?

[Perfection]

I do not see how any single person may be without the blood of a Roman free-men in those areas.

Even the Inuit?

 

[Xen]

Even the Inuit?

as far as I know, the roman empire never encompased the polar regions; i do belive I limited my thoughts of Roman nationalism to the areas that were occupied by the Roman state at least at the time of emperor Caracalla

 

[Dreadnought]

Im a Italian (well, from Sicily, but still) and I think its cool thinking Caesar could have been my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather or something. Or on a milder not my great-great....(look above) could have just been a legionairre or something

 

[MCdread]

Well, it is highly likely that pretty much everyone in the western world and further are descendants from pretty much everyone in the roman empire. It's probable that everyone of us is decendant from Scipio or Cicero.

 

[Godwynn]

@Godwynn:
In your dreams; you weren conqoured because you pitful land wasnt worth the effort needed, and Rome was to fractious internally to even bother looking to a bunch of forested swamps as being a future bastion of civilization

Then why did you try, and get beat at Teutoberg Forest?

 

[stratego]

I know that not all people of Roman descent consider themselves Italian.

 

[bigmeat]

i am a quarter italian and half spanish, so i probably have a lot of roman relatives

 

[downwithgravity]

I am probably descended from some hairy-chested, bearded Barbarian German chief who guzzled beer and went out and whupped up on the Romans. at least, that's how I imagine my ancestors doing it

 

[bigmeat]

i bet one of my anscestors was a pict, i am also a quarter scotch-irish

 

[Damnyankee]

My family is split between Genoa and Bari. My Genoese side of the family has blond hair blue eyes, the southern half brown eyes black hair. A good chance i am part german also. But do i consider myself a descendent of rome..... Yes

 

[thestonesfan]

My ancestors were 100% bad-ass, so they were probably barbarians.

 

[Damnyankee]

running nude into a field to get slaughterted by roman legions while there women folk till the fields is not that bad ass

 

[bigmeat]

i bet one of my ancestors was a legionairy who cut my other anscestors head off while conquering spain

 

[Chairman Meow]

I don't know whether Italians these days consider themselves the descendants of the Romans (I'm not Italian, and I've never been to Italy), but in the past, there has been a sentiment of Italy being the successor of the Roman Empire. For example, when Mussolini took power in Italy, his main objective was to rebuild the Roman Empire. His plan obviously didn't work, but is interesting to note in whether the Italians consider themselves the descendants of the Romans.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Most Italians certainly do not have Roman ancestry to any significant extent.

But who cares?

 

[Xen]

Then why did you try, and get beat at Teutoberg Forest?

A)there was no battle at tuetoburge forest; you decived a commabnder who only got the post because he was realted to the Emperor Augustus, and was in every aspect unqualified for the job

B)why did we try? Because Julius Ceasra beat the Germanic tribes into a living hell, and they presented a border threat; after the loss of the three legions, Augustus made the suggestions to his heirs that germany should be left alone, as the possibel benifits of the conquest were not worth the resources that had to be expended; however, a long tradition of successful Punitive campaigns of punishment agiasnt the german peoples contuned, culutatin in a full scale march of conquest along the germanic coastline, which was wildlly successful; however, this had to be abandoned, as other areas of the empire were fa rmore important that Germania ot the Empire

 

[Marla_Singer]

We are all descendant of the Romans... If there are people in this world that have not a single ancestor who lived in the Ancient Rome, than it's really really surprizing... Maybe few aborigenese in Australia.

 

[sabo]

I'm not Italian but I think of them as descendants from Romans. I tell my old Italian friend he might have conquered most of Europe, but my anscestors came from the only nation they could not hold... Germany.

Rome never conquered my ancestors in Norway either

 

[downwithgravity]

And Vikings were the ORIGINAL badasses. They practically wrote the book on badass-dom.

 

[Chieftess]

I'm part Italian too. Guess that means I'm a very distant relative of some of you. I think we're descendants of the Romans.