If the story was about a tourist in italy or if the place where the story is plot wasn’t important, then you could be right, but as a matter of fact a people of another ethnicity (even if italian) living in Italy wouldn’t have the same life of a white italian and just ignoring this would be superficial in my opinion.
I totally agree with that
You’re also right about that, if I write the story a certain way I can just assume that she isn’t italian and allow full customisation
I probably aren’t explaing myself right