how has italian culture impacted you're country
Indirectly:
>the Latin alphabet
>70% of Spanish's vocabulary and much of its grammar (pronouns, conjugations, genders for nouns), albeit in a simplified form
>civil law codes
>the Roman Catholic Church (which derived much of its structure, from its offices to its sees from the Roman Empire, and derived many of its rites either directly or indirectly from those of ancient Roman polytheism and many mystery religions present in the Roman Empire, and wholesale copied ancient Greek ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology as the intellectual basis for Roman Catholic theology)
Directly:
>Ice cream (first brought over to Mexico by Neapolitan immigrants)
>Caesar salad (invented by an Italian cook who lived in Tijuana)
>certain odd surnames like "Conti", "Ricardi", "Montenegro", and "Paoli"