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In reply to the discussion: White DUers: Tell Your Stories [View all]JustAnotherGen
(31,798 posts)In our house it's on par with his paisanos. IE "JAG I gotta paisan coming over he's a real goombah and his wife is a bombola."
But I live with a man from there (not an American of Italian descent) so he has literally a different understanding.
He's saying a Calabrese man who is a good guy and his wife is a sweetheart.
Now - let's talk about the idea that the default setting for Americans of Italian descent is that they are all in the Mafia if they are successful.
Or - how the guys from that Jersey Shore show would get their asses beat in Acri.
Or the constant whining from the Italian Immigrants I'm immersed in - that if your family c came here 100 years ago and denounced their Italian citizenship you aren't Italian. Or how my husband tells them his black wife is Italian - they aren't. I have my citizenship there so technically he's right.
Aaaaand - we don't have red sauce every Sunday. We are having a drunken prostitute for dinner.