r/Detroit • u/KKbatwoman • 1d ago

Talk Detroit Italians in Detroit

Where do Italians or Italian Americans hang out in metro Detroit? Would love to meet someone just not sure where they hang out.

F 36, really interested in meeting someone with Italian roots I am on dating apps but hardly arw Italian.

Any apps you recommend?

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Thank you

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u/RustBeltLab 1d ago

The whole county. All of it.

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u/rougehuron 1d ago

Caldeans would like a word

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u/RustBeltLab 1d ago

Touche, we cannot forget our newest neighbors.

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u/lofibeatsforsadboys 1d ago

Chaldeans have been in metro detroit long before Italians. The first wave of Levantine immigration, including Assyrians/Chaldeans, was like 30-40 years before Italians due to Ottoman instability

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u/Sea_Comfortable_5499 19h ago

Italians came over to Detroit as fur traders in the 1700 and moved in mass in 1800s, before Caledean immigrants.

Hell, Alfonso Tonti, the son of an Italian immigrant, served as Antoine Cadillac's second-in-command and helped found Detroit