Originally Posted By: olivant
The upshot of both scenes is that Sicilians don't necessarily consider themselves Italians and especially in the 1920s.

...or, alternatively, that mainland Italians didn't consider Sicilians as Italians...

Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.