Why are Sardinians Italian?

Abstract

This article aims to explain in brief why Sardinians are Italians and why Italy, according to the “Doctrine of Statehood”, is nothing more than the continuation of the Kingdom of Sardinia, founded in 1324. The “Doctrine of Statehood”, combining institutional and constitutional law with both present and past history, starts «from the consideration that all men and women who act and produce historical events (called “res gestae” by the Latins) are necessarily born in a specific state, so that if one wants to understand the past and present of a given society, one must know all aspects of that society's state, all its attributes of personality: date of birth, formation and, above all, evolution over time, that is to say, its history». What this theory highlights is that a «historical deception» has been created, in the sense that it «causes us Sardinians double cultural damage that is reflected in all areas of our lives: from the social to the political and even the economic. The first is that an external culture, foreign to our general way of thinking and acting, is imposed on us through schools and all forms of mass media: in essence, they influence us and subject us to their will. The second is that they deprive us of our history, even though since 1324 it is this history that has created the state now called the Italian Republic».