I'm not going to lie, I love being Italian. Being Italian, along with any other group of people also has its stereotypes. Do I get offended by them? No. Do some people? Yes. Do I think, contrary to the anti-stereotyping I'm trying to establish on this page, that sometimes views of Italians are just downright hilarious?
...Absolutely.
Time to get a little more serious. As an Italian-American, I do not find MTV's new show Jersey Shore to be offensive. I find it to be highly entertaining not in the fact that I watch the show but just how stupid some of the people on it are, and how ridiculously over the top it is. What is interesting though is that there are many Italian- Americans who find this portrayal offensive, understandably. The difference is that "white" ethnicities are usually not portrayed in umbrella stereotypes on TV in a negative way. Here, they are. Maybe it's a wake up call for those that might have stereotyped against other ethnicities in the past? What do you think?
I find some of the stereotypes hilarious. Here's the other thing though. If you had to name three "ethnic groups" associated most with crime, they would probably be Hispanics, African Americans, and Italians. Why don't as many Italians seem to be offended as other "races" would if they were in the same situation? Or do they? What do you think?
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