Posted on 11/04/2022 4:08:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Reputational Shift of Italian American Stereotypes As Analyzed by the Italian American Reputation Lab (IARL) Complete report presented October 29th 2022, at the National Italian American Foundation Gala Washington DC
F. Fasano and U. Mucci for We The Italians, R. Allegrini Niaf President, D. Ippolito and N. Vidali for Zwan and Reputation Research (Photo: Business Wire) F. Fasano and U. Mucci for We The Italians, R. Allegrini Niaf President, D. Ippolito and N. Vidali for Zwan and Reputation Research (Photo: Business Wire)
F. Fasano and U. Mucci for We The Italians, R. Allegrini Niaf President, D. Ippolito and N. Vidali for Zwan and Reputation Research (Photo: Business Wire)
October 31, 2022 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--“The Italian American Reputation Lab is a research initiative launched to monitor and assess the reputation values of Italy and Italian Americans. IARL’s methodology is grounded on a series of objective analysis developed in machine learning through a patented Artificial Intelligent process. All the documents and data are formatted in 5 operational Drivers in relation to 5 specific Stakeholder groups”. Stated Davide Ippolito, IARL partner, and director of Reputation Research Inc.
As described in the 2022 Report, the reputation of Italian Americans in the world has improved by 38.3% in the last thirty years. In the USA media environment (traditional and social), the Italian Americans is the third Community for number of mentions and the first at European-descendance, even more than the German Americans and the Ireland Americans which both have twice the number of US citizens.
“If just until 30 years ago the major discussions on the Italian American themes were about mafia-culture and the underworld crime (also fed by the stereotypes created by the Film industry), today the perception of the Italian American community is changing. In fact, a constantly increasing number of high-level decision-making positions in the private and public spheres are held by Italian Americans, and the media environment is shifting its focus on more positive role models such as Lady Gaga and the Russo Brothers just to name a few,” said Umberto Mucci, IARL partner and “We the Italians” President
"We are honored to host during our annual event the presentation of the first report. This is a very interesting study on a relevant theme aimed to improve the relations between the USA and Italy while also providing structured information to companies looking at investing in America, which is also part of our mission,” stated Robert V. Allegrini, President of the National Italian American Foundation.
IARL is the brainchild of We the Italians, a media company dedicated to improving the knowledge and the relationship between Italy and the US, and Zwan a firm specialized in Reputation Assessment and Reputation Marketing Strategies, in collaboration of Reputation Research Inc. More information www.iarl.org
Lucky Charms boxes and Pizza box illistrations don’t offend people of Irish and Italian descent because we aren’t p*ssies.
My husband is a magnificent American of Italian and Polish decent, who can speak both languages (Italian fluently).
We were never worried about the reputation of Italian Americans. I am proud of my Italian last name because he gave it to me when we married. Two of my brothers and my sister all married Italians.
Seriously, do people really think every Italian is connected to the mob?
Different areas different experiences.
I have no Italian heritage but grew up in the Kansas City area where my family was involved in construction for almost 90 years. Kansas City had a significant Italian-American population, significant mob influence, significant Italian-American crime history and some fine civic minded Italian-Americans who were totally honest but always found the tentacles of Italian mob influence tough to shed.
The main people harmed by the mob were Italian-Americans and their businesses. I sat in one club til past closing one night in the 1970s trying to explain this to a business associate from out of town. Exactly one week later that bar/restaurant, Pat O’Brians, was totally leveled by a bomb. The owner left town and disappeared for almost a year.
The honest and successful Italian-Americans were inextricably linked by family and marital ties to the mob connected and rarely wanted to be. They were victims as much as anyone else. I saw their business ventures and careers damaged or killed because their mob connections were too close. This did not end in the late 70s — it somewhat continues even in the last ten years.
In the early 70s I worked with a venture trying to build an athletic venue get its initial financing set up by the same guys that did the Las Vegas loans. I went to dinner with the fellow I discovered later was the control for the okay of mob influenced loans — I kept his card for forty years just to remember the event — all the contact information was in Venezuela but we all knew he was a Chicago guy.
Had some great friends in that community and saw it all.
Italian Americans call “their” organized crime “La Cosa Nostra”.
WASPs call “their” organized crime “The Government”.
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