1 posted on
09/24/2002 6:49:26 PM PDT by
max epr
To: max epr
"...this site gleefully joins the chorus"Most Italians I know and work with (and there are several) also join the chorus and laugh about it all.
Don't take everything so seriously. Fact is, certain groups of people have certain stereotypes attached to them. Maybe they're grouped and stereotyped by race, maybe it's their profession, or maybe it's religion or nationality.
It's not necessarily fair and the stereotypes don't even need to be remotely accurate. It just is.
If you're a fellow freeper, then let's not fall into the same trap that some other groups have found themselves in. Life's too short and there's too much to accomplish.
2 posted on
09/24/2002 6:55:21 PM PDT by
Lloyd227
To: max epr
I'm of German descent and Nazi movies don't offend me a bit.
3 posted on
09/24/2002 6:57:01 PM PDT by
Arkinsaw
To: max epr
There's a reason why they film "The Sopranos" in New Jersey.
It's also worth noting that a corrupt, disgraceful Italian-American piece of sh!t like New Jersey senator Robert Torricelli doesn't to much to dispel any stereotypes about Italian-Americans.
(In case anyone is wondering, I'm an American of Irish descent who is perfectly willing to accept any similar sterotypes of Irish-Americans. A bloated, drunken slob like Ted Kennedy doesn't do much to dispel these stereotypes, either.)
To: max epr
I agree that was a total outrage....
Imagine thinking that everyone in the country watches that show...
I am outraged.
6 posted on
09/24/2002 7:06:37 PM PDT by
Krodg
To: max epr
The Italian mob stereotype works good on TV. I just bought a history of the mob centered around Legs Diamond. Until the about the time of the death of Meyer Lansky the mob was run equally on the national level by a coalition of Italians and Jews. You don't see movies or TV series centered on people such as Siegel, Buchalter, Cohen, etc. If there ever were an attempt at such a thing the Anti-defamation league would bring suit.
7 posted on
09/24/2002 7:07:47 PM PDT by
RLK
To: max epr
Waaa. Go start your own Jesse Jackson professional whiners organization.
To: max epr; Flyer; bobbyd; Humidston; COB1; PetroniDE; TWfromTEXAS; Dog Gone; bgsugar
I agree, do you have any idea what a rotten name Walter Matheu gave to honest, hard working Curmudgeons?
To: max epr
I watched Miss America. All of the contestants (still in the running) were asked the same question.
17 posted on
09/24/2002 7:31:38 PM PDT by
encm(ss)
To: max epr
Is that all you got?!?!?! I'm Southern..... blonde/red head..... with grandparents on one side who where,an Irish Catholic grandmother..... and Irish Protestant grandfather...... never a shortage of jokes (thank-goodness) ........quit yer grippen and enjoy who and what you are.
To: max epr
I'm half German, half Italian. I tend to attack and surrender at the same time. Try the veal.
33 posted on
09/24/2002 8:18:10 PM PDT by
Jhensy
To: max epr
I'm of Scottish descent, and it didn't bother me at all in Braveheart when they depicted the Scots mooning the English.
34 posted on
09/24/2002 8:20:28 PM PDT by
copycat
To: max epr
First off, I like the show the Soprano's, but they do play to sterotypes. They make Mafia folks look almost noble and imperfect, when in fact they victimize innocent people (ask the people who have to pay shake down money, or have to use certain contractors, or buy materials from certain people or get hurt for it, which is costs then passed on to us). This isn't the worst of it, some people (out of ignorancy) won't even hire italians. I've personally known stock brokers who think anyone italian knows somone, and thus, leaven them vulnerable to being pushed into something illegal. I wish they had more honest portrayls of people of different ehtnic backgrounds and ethnicities instead of so many god damn sterotypes.
37 posted on
09/24/2002 8:29:01 PM PDT by
Sonny M
To: max epr
Hey I'm Jewish and I sure as heck ain't cheap. But I am kinda loud and obnoxious...:)
39 posted on
09/24/2002 8:35:37 PM PDT by
Hildy
To: max epr
Outrage:
Not only should all Americans of Italian descent be upset
but all European Italians and all from the Italian Province of New Guinea should be ticked!
44 posted on
09/25/2002 6:15:12 AM PDT by
TRY ONE
To: max epr
I guessed wrong. I thought that'd be asking what exit she lives near.
46 posted on
09/25/2002 5:06:48 PM PDT by
kcar
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