MTV's the Jersey Shore...

[drift freaq]

Ok I was going to keep my mouth shut on this but this thread has gone on way to long.

I.E. most of you fail to realize just how offensive to most Italian Americans and the people who are like this in Jersey is.
Fact is growing up as a kid the term used so loosely in the show and MTV's attempt to label it a lifestyle is a pretty damn derogatory term.
Those people are embarrassing to all people of Italian American heritage.

What a lot of you fail to realize is Italian Americans were once a minority. Put down ridiculed etc.. Stereotypes were labeled on them much like other minorities.

Today we for the most part are pretty much considered White's it was not always that way. In fact throughout corporate America you will find upstanding, proper language speaking Italian Americans running things.
Largest Toyota dealership in the World started and run by an Italian American. One of the founding companies of Silicon Valley's Technology center run by a corporate vice president Italian American..
just a couple of examples and the list goes on.

I state these only to show the gross representation of our culture, that show and the Jersey shore is shoving on you. It is disrespectful to all Italian Americans who work hard and are normal people who don't act that way.

Younger Italian Americans are failing to realize this. Those people on the Jersey shore really make us look bad.
The ones that say I am Italian American and don't care well the problem is you should care. Its not so much the word as it is the whole show and the people who are out there portraying that lifestyle. Especially when its a minority of the Italian American population at best.
Problem being the average idiot is going to think you an Italian American acts that way. Its like the Chinese guys that think Italian Americans talk like Mafioso because of the Soprano's . LOL but worse.
Yes I have experienced that from Chinese guys and it made me laugh but this show is worse than that.

Now anyone that complains about being called a .......... or a ,,,,,,,,,,, i.e. derogatory slurs of their culture and then condones this is a hypocrite. Nice to see so many hypocrites in this thead. Hell if I said fuck you to half your faces you would probably call it fighting words.

So I dare anyone of you to say I just let the shit roll off my back and not bother me. Oh and Matej stay out of this with your lame ass rebuttals.

Sorry boys, its just like eastern Europeans do not want to be portrayed as Vodka swilling drunks.

[Bubbles]

Originally Posted by drift freaq

Ok I was going to keep my mouth shut on this but

Priceless.

[DALAZ_68]

Originally Posted by drift freaq

Younger Italian Americans are failing to realize this.

sounds like the parents failed then huh...

[drift freaq]

Originally Posted by DALAZ_68

sounds like the parents failed then huh...

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.