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**fajerdoksdsaaker** · 10-19-2010, 03:12 AM

The moral sounds more like "Italians are evil bigots". So typical of Hollywood.

Chazz Palmintieri who wrote and starred in the film is a proud Sicilian-American, and Robert DeNiro who co-starred in and directed the film is also Italian-American.

This was people reflecting upon their own experiences as adolescents growing up in New York.

Just in the US because most of italian americans are from the south (not the most progressive or open minded people exactly) and well... also because growing up in the US can make anybody to have really serious racial/identity issues.

Most of the Italians that came to South America were from North/Central Italy and most of them didn't have problems to mix with natives/blacks/whatever. I know a lot of people with Italian surnames whose phenotypes go from Dinarid to Zamboid.

And Southern Europeans are not more racist than any other people, they are just less hypocrital than anglos/germanics.

You do realize that you only speak for Brazil there, right?

Argentina and Uruguay are the most Italian countries outside of Europe and they have virtually no blacks or even mulattoes.

10-19-2010, 03:12 AM	#17
fajerdoksdsaaker Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 279 Senior Member	The moral sounds more like "Italians are evil bigots". So typical of Hollywood. Chazz Palmintieri who wrote and starred in the film is a proud Sicilian-American, and Robert DeNiro who co-starred in and directed the film is also Italian-American. This was people reflecting upon their own experiences as adolescents growing up in New York. Just in the US because most of italian americans are from the south (not the most progressive or open minded people exactly) and well... also because growing up in the US can make anybody to have really serious racial/identity issues. Most of the Italians that came to South America were from North/Central Italy and most of them didn't have problems to mix with natives/blacks/whatever. I know a lot of people with Italian surnames whose phenotypes go from Dinarid to Zamboid. And Southern Europeans are not more racist than any other people, they are just less hypocrital than anglos/germanics. You do realize that you only speak for Brazil there, right? Argentina and Uruguay are the most Italian countries outside of Europe and they have virtually no blacks or even mulattoes.
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