Then he started describing the ethnic background of my husband. It turns out that, as Italians count it, he's not 1/8 French and 7/8 Italian, as I once thought. He is 1/8 Piemontese, 1/8 Calabrese, 1/8 Emiliano, 1/8 some place that used to be Italian but is now Swiss, 1/8 French, and I can't even keep track of his other 8ths which, in any case, all mean ITALIAN.
It's complicated over here.