"The Fair Skinned Italians” (?)
Posted by Lauren in Randoms, Site News on April 4, 2005 | « Back to main
What you may be thinking: “But Italians are not (usually) fair skinned.” *
. . . Which is the irony of what is going to happen to my last name in a few months. My current last name (some call it ‘maiden’) is Petrella, which is my heritage from my Italian father. Technically, I’m half-Italian. But you’d never know it, since my complexion is dark enough that in elementary school, my teacher thought I fit into the Eskimo/Native American demographic.
Meanwhile, Josh’s last name -that I will soon be happily taking on- is Teague and translates as “fair-skinned.” Thus, to celebrate the wonder of God’s sense of humor, Josh and I thought it would be fun to give this site the name you now understand. The Fair Skinned Italians. (.com)
*The makers of this site are well aware of the value of cultural diversity and the need to avoid stereotypes. One of us had to write several papers about Cultural Diversity in the Classroom, in fact. It is not our desire to reinforce the idea that race=color. However, in this case it worked for us and we ask that you respect that.
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Hilarious. I also very much love the fact that we will be getting more than just Josh-voice on this site. Lauren!
(Little known fact: When Jeanine and I got engaged, we briefly toyed with the idea of securing the pastyfleshedslovaks.com domain.)
April 5th, 2005
Great site. First of all - congrats to Josh for giving an dark skinned, Italian girl a “white boy” last name. I did the same for Mandy (used to be Petrella) Robinson. Just sucking the ethnicity right out of them. I’m not sure how much credit I can take for the “blind date” but thanks. Congrats - we’re very much looking forward to the big day.
April 5th, 2005
mrs p said….opposites often attract—but you two are opposites only in your appearance. In many other ways, you are very similar! An amazing combo. Beau and ms todd cotton’s comments are beyond hilarious.
April 5th, 2005
Beau, When my mom says your comment was “beyond hilarious,” what she really means is that she couldn’t read the comment aloud to me since she was laughing so hard she was wheezing.
April 6th, 2005
At some point in the future there may even be a Teague able to bask in direct sunlight. Now that’s what I call progress!
April 11th, 2005