Aprrently mario was created by asian dudes but mario is italian

what the

I found this quote from Shigeru Miyamoto

So that's also an interesting story. When I was younger, I used to enjoy comics and drawing comics as well. And among the comics that I read, some were Italian comics. And if you think about it, the big nose and the mustache is not a facial feature that's characteristic of Japanese people. And so I think that my connection to those Italian comics — probably I drew on that inspiration when we first drew the character.

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So that means that he is not Asian