Nobody thinks that New York governor Andrew Cuomo and Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini are members of the same nation. The latter is Italian, the former, American. That being said, their great-grandfathers where undoubtedly members of one nation: they were all Italians. In most people's minds there is an understanding that Salvini and Cuomo share a certain cultural heritage, but that's where any commonality between them stops.
US Senator Chuck Schumer and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu are both Jews. Unlike in the case of Salvini and Cuomo, the implications of this statement go much further, though just how much is a matter of heated debate. In Israel, a majority of Jews sees in American Jews members of one nation, one people: the Jewish people. In America, some Jews consider themselves members of the same people as their Israeli counterparts and some do not, but it is fair to say that the Jewish hyphen, as in Jewish-American has a higher specific density, a deeper meaning than the myriad of other American hyphens, Italian-American included.
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