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Originally Posted by DALAZ_68
sounds like the parents failed then huh...
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Its not so much the parents failed Steve. Fact is Italian Americans came to the U.S.Their parents taught them to learn the language of their adopted country and be proud to be Americans.
They assimilated into the American culture and became Americans. Some of us learned to hold onto our heritage and be proud of it as well as being proud of being Americans.
Others just learned to be American and did not identify enough with the culture to care. They also intermarried with other cultures . Its not so much a failure just something that happens. Germans, Irish, Lithunians, etc the list is long most no longer identify with the culture of their ancestral homelands. They do identify with being Americans.
Of the Europeans Italians were a later group than a lot of the above so some of us hold the culture. Look at Armenians and Russians and eastern europeans a lot of them hold their culture right now being some of the newest of European immigrants and they do get stereotyped for it as the Italians did.
Oh and I will say this yes the parents of these jack asses on the east coast do seem to have failed its sad but its not the norm. Its just not a thing MTV should be putting out but then of course MTV puts out nothing but Garbage anyways these days. That network needs to die.