lol, I was friends with this guy is HS and his family/extended family were strange. Leave it at that.
That's a good kinda strange, if you ask me. Honestly, I never understood that exagerated outrage italian americans have. It's part of our cultural heritage, it's not an indictment of any italian in particular.
And it's sexy and dangerous - like I said, if I were to sit down and write myself a sterotype, it would look a lot like the Italian/Gangster one. ;-)