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Italy is a social construct
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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.