Bittersweet Musings and Curiosities from a Super Bowl Freak
It's all in good fun—except for the bookies and advertisers
Read morePasquale Palumbo grew up in the Italian neighborhood of Corona in Queens. As a First Generation Italian American, he has love for both where his family is from and where he lives. His interests include, pop culture, sports, and literature. He likes to remind people that he has been Italian American his whole life.
It's all in good fun—except for the bookies and advertisers
Read moreHow a simple business decision left some Italian Americans devastated and “in mourning”
Read moreThe other day, while looking up different ideas for how to prepare some different Christmas meals, I started to see many recipes for The Feast of the Seven Fishes. This got me to thinking: why is this such a prevalent item on Google when I, as a first generation Italian-American,...
Read moreI delinquenti sono un punto fermo della cultura pop americana dall’inizio del ventesimo secolo. Gli americani amano le storie che parlano di mafia, come è evidente dalla presenza costante del Padrino… mi sento spesso un ipocrita a denunciare gli stereotipi italo-americani negativi mentre, allo stesso tempo, li accetto in serie...
Read moreThe gangster has been a staple of the American pop culture since the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Americans love a good mob story, as evidenced by the ever presence of Godfather… I often feel like a hypocrite for denouncing negative Italian-American stereotypes while at the same time embracing them...
Read moreDespite my having been declared "Jeopardy!" Champion, these people on social media felt no hesitation to besmirch me in such an ethnically specific manner…this would never happen to any other ethnicity without consequence...Yet slurring an Italian-American without any fear of repercussions, especially in the age of Cancel Culture, is still...
Read moreIt is not an exaggeration to suggest that one of the linguistic tyrannies prevailing today in this age of political correctness, tolerance and multiculturalism, is the use and abuse of the N-word. The word has penetrated every aspect of public discourse and has taken a prominent place in American popular...
Read moreYou can make film after film and T.V. show after T.V. show focusing on every negative stereotype and caricature of Italian-Americans with impunity, and you can continue to ignore the great contributions Italian Americans have made to our society, as when Chirlaine McCray de Blasio ignored the results of a...
Read moreI’ve been Italian American my whole life; I’ve felt insulted when called a guinea, when called a wop, and when called a dago, but I’ve never been called Fredo, nor would I be terribly irked if someone called me that.
Read moreThe word “racist” has lost all meaning and power in the last decade; the word is thrown around so frivolously as to devalue it completely; if everything is racist then nothing is. And what is the benefit of even asking the question?
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