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Italy is a social construct
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I'm Italian and can confirm. People even started actually using "standard" Italian(mostly with some remnants of their previous local languages/dialects) in everyday speech only after the inception of TV. The patriot Massimo D'Azeglio said "After making Italy, we need to make Italians", and the (state controlled) TV did this.
EDIT: It was D'Azeglio, not Garibaldi.
This is also why the stereotypical NJ Italian-American pronunciation of things sounds so unlike Italian.
It's not that Americans somehow turned "pasta e fagioli" into "pasta fazool". They turned "pasta e fasule" into "pasta fazool", which is a much smaller leap.
That quote is from D'Azeglio, not Garibaldi.