Hey fish and ...
Italians are not white and the only reason white people try to claim them is so that they can associate themselves with Rome.
Most Italians look more like Arabs....
Europe never really had any major civilizations until the Renaissnance, Greece and Rome were on the far outskirts of Europe and were populated by Semitic-looking people who had absorbed the culture of the Nile Valley civilizations, Mesopotamia, India, China, etc. basically everywhere that WASN'T white.
Europe was the last continent to experience a great indigenous culture with the Renaissance LOL thousands of hears after Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
This embarrasses them so they try to claim Italians as white even though most of them obviously aren't.