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2 years ago
Tom Hagen might not be Sicilian but he's fluent in the language, uses Sicilian hand gestures, has Sicilian facial expressions, even prefers the language over English at times and has married an Italian wife. Clearly he's done everything possible to absorb a language and culture that he wasn't born into to the extent that Vito even says that he made Tom a Sicilian and yet almost every character in the book spends every 5 minutes reminding him that he isn't one of them.
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What more do they want from him?
I have no idea what Sicilian facial expressions are
but according to the book
he has them
It pains me that he's doing everything possible
to respect the language and culture
probably more than many of their own
but he's always going to be treated like an outcast
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