WASPs were right in their estimation of Italians, and the myth of 'Italian integration' was an invention meant to convince people to let in waves of even worse immigrants. At least we got some decent cinema out of it, I guess
I cannot fault amoral familism, presently or in the abstract, as a reasonable orientation, but Banfield was right to call his book Moral Basis of a *Backwards Society*. To let in dozens of such microsocieties is to slowly dissolve the Western foundations that made us successful
Italians upset over this are further evidence that they haven't integrated into the American WASP culture. Good job
In thirty minutes I received more gnashing of teeth for this than I have for any other form of racism. Italians are black, confirmed: racial generalizations are fine, but not for us! It must suck to be the blackest white-passing group
All the Italians upset at this must open the doors of Italy to infinite North Africans, btw. Not only is there historical precedence, but in two generations all the Tunisians will be indistinguishable from other Italians, of course
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