Jacaen wrote:
I'm mulatto and I have a mad crush on an Italian friend of mine. My brother told me Italians aren't too fond of black people, so I asked my friend about it. He said some Italians call blacks "eggplants" :/.
Yet you call yourself a mule?

Further down in south America their use Mestizo, which means mixed. Criollo actually refers to the idea of Spanish American with only Spanish ancestry, in it non broad meaning.
I don't think all Italians are hostile to different race. Probably the more cosmopolitan, and younger the less prejudices there are.