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When Ms. Williams goes out in Chicago or pretty much anywhere else in the United States, she said, she often feels ignored by men who seem to barely register her existence. But when she walks into a room in Italy, all eyes are on her - and to her, that’s a good thing. These polar reactions occur, she said, because she is black.
“Even though I would behave in the same way at home and abroad, in Chicago I felt invisible,” Ms. Williams said in her home in the Monti neighborhood of Rome. “But in Italy I kept meeting guys.” In November, she moved in with her Italian boyfriend, whom she met on Tinder in Rome.
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www.nytimes.com
“Even though I would behave in the same way at home and abroad, in Chicago I felt invisible,” Ms. Williams said in her home in the Monti neighborhood of Rome. “But in Italy I kept meeting guys.” In November, she moved in with her Italian boyfriend, whom she met on Tinder in Rome.
Source:
‘In Italy I Kept Meeting Guys’: The Black Women Who Travel for Love (Published 2020)
Despite Italy’s troubles with racism, African-American women are traveling to the country for love, and finding it.
