My father in law was Sicilian. My mother in law was Calabrese. Of course, being old Italian, he always considered his wife as “stupid”. You cook, clean, wash my clothes and shut your mouth. Horrible to watch.
my dad was old world European and he was exactly like that!
I couldn’t figure out why my mom allowed that. and he had 5 daughters so he was surrounded by stupid!!
Don’t miss him at all.
My mom and pop were from Italy and pop treated mom like gold.
Pop from Naples and mom from Sicily.
Sorry you got the wrong impression about “old Italian” whatever that is.