Posted on 12/05/2004 12:07:00 PM PST by sully777
My grandfather was President of UNICO, Hoboken many many moons ago.
LOL, Italian/ Puerto Rican Jersey girl here( talk about tempers, and I am a redhead to boot, lol). I don't have a problem with The Sopranos, I really don't. It's fiction, though I enjoy seeing alot of places I can recognize on the show. Now the Gotti's is a reality show and I could see how some could take offense to that. Though Victoria Gotti receives a real pay check, you have to wonder how much of those luxuires those kids live with is dirty money.
A NYer in Vegas, are you? I know Vegas is fun, but I'm sorry, there is no way you are getting good Sunday gravy over there.
Chicks? Did you say CHICKS???
Oh goody. A thread to actually perpetuate the stereotypes. Among Italians, as among most ethnic groups, there are two types of people: the ones who give life to the old stereotypes and the ones who come from good families.
The old "wife beater t-shirt/Madonna on the duplex in Bensonhurst/girls with hair higher than the ESB" stereotype is fading fast. Indicative of the fact that there are more Italians on Wall Street these days than working at Port Newark.
Agreed! LOL
My pet peeve are the greaseball wannabees who embrace every damned stereotype possible because they think that's what being Italian is. These are usually the same people calling into Joe Causi's show on KTU talking about eating buckets of spaghetti on Staten Island.
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Correct. You described about 50% of my former classmates in Valley Stream, NY. Thankfully, such people are disappearing. Its now up to the Latinos to live up to negative urban ethnic stereotypes.
That reminds me of that infamous scene in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever.
Guarnere (from Band of Brothers) is a real person. Everything in that film is based on the survivor's recollections of actual events.
You got that right...right down to the Salvadorean flags blah blah blah. After a while the teasing about one's last name gets to be ridiculous. That's so old *LOL* I know a lot about Italian history and culture, and the fact that I have big hair is by pure accident I tell you :o)
He contends that many Italian-American actors are reluctant to turn down gangster roles because there are so few roles available.
*** That's the reality of hollyweird. They are infamous for typecasting. That's why many Italians change their last names.
But Tom DeGenaro of One Voice Coalition said that actors of Italian descent who allow themselves to be cast in those roles are furthering the defamation.
*** That's easy for him to say. Many black people took degrading roles because they saw it as an opportunity to get better roles later and that gamble paid off somewhat.
> I've got Italian hair on a Polish head. Ain't mixed marriages great!
Whenever Curtis Sliwa talks about using Bertoli olive oil in the hair, I laugh because I've done it before LOL! When I was in Venice, the shop ladies would say they can tell I'm Sicilian by my hair that was happily getting bigger and bigger with all the humidity hehe.
Hey, nice to hear from you! Like I said, I don't have problems with most of the sterotypes of programs like 'Sopranos.' I really don't think most people think that kind of stuff to seriously.
Anybody who does, I choose to have some fun with. What's the harm in that?
As for good gravy in Las Vegas on Sunday, I have some cooking on the stove right now! Haha! My mom and grandma taught me well! :-)
Yea, I did say chicks! Haha!
I perpetuate the sterotypes AND come from a good family! I see the upside in the sterotype, what's the big deal? People should quit being so sensitive.
Very true!
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