Italian People.

[MIKolbe]

if i had feelings, that would have hurt them.

[Hinter dem Horizont]

[color=#333333][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][b][url="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001001/"]Sonny[/url][/b]: How's Paulie?
[b][url="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0144710/"]Clemenza[/url][/b]: Oh, Paulie... won't see him no more. [/size][/font][/color]

[Hinter dem Horizont]

[font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"][b][color=#333333][b][url="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0144710/"]Clemenza[/url][/b]: What's with all the new faces?
[b][url="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001820/"]Tessio[/url][/b]: We'll need 'em now. After the hospital thing, Sonny got mad. We hit Bruno Tattaglia at four o'clock this morning.
[b][url="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0144710/"]Clemenza[/url][/b]: ...Jesus Christ. [/color][/b][/size][/font]

Edited January 28, 2011 by Hinter dem Horizont

[Hinter dem Horizont]

[font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"][b][color=#333333][b][url="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000199/"]Michael[/url][/b]: You gonna kill all those guys?
[b][url="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001001/"]Sonny[/url][/b]: Hey, Mikey, stay out of this, all right? [/color][/b][/size][/font]

Edited January 28, 2011 by Hinter dem Horizont

[vee]

Here is my list of well known Italian saints. Can they outnumber the ?

Gianna Beretta Molla
Francesca S. Cabrini
Clare of Assisi
Gemma Galgani
Maria Goretti
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
Angela Merici
Philomena
Dominic Savio
Scholastica
Benedict of Nursia
Charles Borromeo
John Bosco
Catherine of Siena
Joseph of Cupertino
Francis of Assisi
Aloysius Gonzaga
Saint Lucy
Pio of Pietrelcina
Thomas Aquinas
Philip Neri
Rita of Cascia

[AudreyGrace]

my mother got upset that I was spending so much time//started the Irish thread and not repping the Italian. So... yeah the food is amesome .[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/like.gif[/img]

[MithLuin]

I marinated artichoke hearts!

[img]http://s3.hubimg.com/u/94846_f520.jpg[/img]

I also really like the Italian folk band Lingalad:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TipJDqv8yoQ[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSuBXLozAaY[/media]

I had the chance to see them live in Toronto

Edited January 28, 2011 by MithLuin

[Chamomile]

Yay Italy!!!!!

The Pope is there!!!!!

[reminiscere]

How absolutely disugsting that (probably) Italian-Americans can find nothing better to post about in this thread than Hollywood stereotypes and mafia jokes.

[b]God forbid I start making jokes about Nazis in the German thread or drunks in the Irish thread or anything in the African-American thread (God forbid we have a Jewish thread). I would probably be warned/banned and my "ratings" drop immediately. But as far as Italians go ethnically like Catholicism on the religious level in the media and in every other arena, it's always open season. Anything's fair game.
[/b]
Italian-Americans have sadly and consistently perpetuated the mafia/spaghetti view of themselves and so have no one to blame but themselves for doing so - see Godfather, Sopranos and Jersey Shore for perfect examples - as well as the previous posts in this thread.

As a proud grandson of Italian immigrants, a parishioner at one of the oldest Italian churches in this country and someone who knows very well the language and culture of Italy I am ashamed of fellow Italian-Americans who continue to degrade themselves all in the name of humor trying to become assimilated or accepted. Honestly, find something else to joke or talk about.... or try learning some more Italian besides "mangia" and "pizza."

Edited January 30, 2011 by reminiscere

[MithLuin]

Actually...I posted a picture of a Nazi concentration camp in the Polish thread, and there have been plenty of comments about drinking in both the German and Irish threads. Part of being proud of a culture is to be aware of the shortcomings.

I'm sorry you were offended by comments on this thread, but I'll also point out that some very wonderful Italian saints were listed here.

To my knowledge, I do not have a drop of Italian blood in me, but Sts. Francis and Clare of Assisi are my favorite saints, and I have been to Rome to visit. All Catholics have a connection to Rome, and thus to Italy, and we'd be geniuses to forget that.

[BigJon16]

[quote name='reminiscere' timestamp='1296365277' post='2206614']
How absolutely disugsting that (probably) Italian-Americans can find nothing better to post about in this thread than Hollywood stereotypes and mafia jokes.

[b]God forbid I start making jokes about Nazis in the German thread or drunks in the Irish thread or anything in the African-American thread (God forbid we have a Jewish thread). I would probably be warned/banned and my "ratings" drop immediately. But as far as Italians go ethnically like Catholicism on the religious level in the media and in every other arena, it's always open season. Anything's fair game.
[/b]
Italian-Americans have sadly and consistently perpetuated the mafia/spaghetti view of themselves and so have no one to blame but themselves for doing so - see Godfather, Sopranos and Jersey Shore for perfect examples - as well as the previous posts in this thread.

As a proud grandson of Italian immigrants, a parishioner at one of the oldest Italian churches in this country and someone who knows very well the language and culture of Italy I am ashamed of fellow Italian-Americans who continue to degrade themselves all in the name of humor trying to become assimilated or accepted. Honestly, find something else to joke or talk about.... or try learning some more Italian besides "mangia" and "pizza."
[/quote]

I can see why you are upset about all the "stereotype" stuff. And I admit I get caught up in it, but I also feel as Italian-American's, we have our own culture apart of that of our ancestors. Both of my great great grandparents were right "off the boat", so to speak. But the truth is, as a fourth generation Italian-American, the full on Italian culture is hard to keep alive, and like i said, we have our own kind of "sub-culture" as Italian-Americans.

My father still cooks a Sunday dinner, my whole family still uses a lot of Italian "slang" yet I am the only one who regularly attends Mass. I am the only "full-blooded" out of my all siblings (long story for another time) and since I am discerning a call to the priesthood, though it pains me to say it, the traditionalism of my family will continue to die out, as it has over the pasts 20 years or so.

As for all the "stereotypes", well they exist and I cant defend them nor will I persecute them. Along with my love of God, and a loving family, they are all Ive got.

I will tell you this though, I will and have been trying to get in touch with my more "Italian" side so that I may bring those traditions into my ministry, if and when I do become a priest.
Come on, who doesn't like an Italian priest? hahahaha

[Mark of the Cross]

[quote name='BG45' timestamp='1296221610' post='2205668']
Love Italians!
[/quote]

Except for Silvester Stallone. Am I steroidotyping?

Edited January 30, 2011 by Mark of the Cross

[BigJon16]

[quote name='Mark of the Cross' timestamp='1296375700' post='2206650']
Except for Silvester Stallone. Am I steroidotyping?
[/quote]

hahahahaha

[tnavarro61]

[b]Siamo qui, sotto la stessa luce, sotto la Sua croce
cantando ad una voce:
E’ l’Emmanuel, l’Emmanuel, l’Emmanuel,
E’ l’Emmanuel, l’Emmanuel.[/b]

This is Italian, right? I love this song.

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='reminiscere' timestamp='1296365277' post='2206614']
How absolutely disugsting that (probably) Italian-Americans can find nothing better to post about in this thread than Hollywood stereotypes and mafia jokes.

[b]God forbid I start making jokes about Nazis in the German thread or drunks in the Irish thread or anything in the African-American thread (God forbid we have a Jewish thread). I would probably be warned/banned and my "ratings" drop immediately. But as far as Italians go ethnically like Catholicism on the religious level in the media and in every other arena, it's always open season. Anything's fair game.
[/b] [/quote]
[quote]
As a proud grandson of Italian immigrants, a parishioner at one of the oldest Italian churches in this country and someone who knows very well the language and culture of Italy I am ashamed of fellow Italian-Americans who continue to degrade themselves all in the name of humor trying to become assimilated or accepted. Honestly, find something else to joke or talk about.... or try learning some more Italian besides "mangia" and "pizza."
[/quote]
Italians are so discriminated against in modern day America. It just isn't fair.