[allendale]

The old Italian first generation immigrants were fond of saying that “the donkeys remained in Italy”. Any poor person with brains and ambition migrated.

[max americana]

I hear ya. I’m 5th gen Sicilian and even when I visit I see this old women banging their clothes on river rock to dry them. Man, we’re lucky to live in the greatest country in the world and not some sh*thole like Cuba.