  I prefer to celebrate him as a white American, but I guess I am biased :)  Since he is American, and from Ft. Myers, Florida it's a pretty slim chance that he's 100% Italian anyways, about the only places in America you still find people who are purely Italian is usually in tight knit ethnic neighborhoods on the east coast and in Chicago. I'd bet it's pretty unlikely he's full Italian or even half, since most White Americans aka Americans cannot identify with any one single old world nationality or ethnic group. For all we know he could've taken the name of his step father or something which is common. He's an American ;)