[Genoa]

....you can't marry that Italian.

Reminds me of the comic Pat Cooper (born Pascuale Caputo), who said he brought home a Polish girlfriend to his grandmother, no problem, then brought home an Irish girlfriend to his grandmother, no problem, then brought home his new girlfriend. "Grandma, she's Italian!!" Long silence. "What part of Italy is she from?"

[allmendream]

LOL. My grandma is half Italian and half Irish. Because she likes her father, but not her mother, she claims Italian.

I told her this joke....

“A kid goes to his dad, he says “Dad. Can I have $5 for a Guinea pig?” Dad says “Here is $20, take out a nice Irish girl.”

Suddenly she was half Irish. ;)

But I like your anecdote. Sort of a “all politics is local”, or as I point out - usually the most vitriol is not reserved for those who a group disagrees with diametrically; but for those who disagree by the smallest extent.

‘then we have to fight our TRUE enemies!’
‘the Romans?’
‘No, the Peoples Front of Judea!’
‘I thought WE were the Peoples Front of Judea!’
‘No! Were the Judean Peoples Front!’
‘Splitters!’

“Splitters!”