Hollywood's Regressive Stereotypes of Italians

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-cube/202111/hollywoods-regressive-stereotypes-of-italians

by 3littlefish • 3 years ago

2 8 3 years ago

He was meticulously careful to omit mention of someone who is, though possibly of ambiguous allegiance, an all-time favorite of Italians, patriots, and Roman Catholics in these United States, to the point where many statues were erected... unfortunately, this proved to be temporary.

I did find this gentleman named on the webpage with Ctrl+F... as a major city in Ohio where you can Find a Therapist!!1

Also totally omitted: religious leaders not counting Michelangelo: surely a few popular Popes or Cardinals are good role models: Pope St. John XXIII? Pope St. Pius X?

And don't forget to mention that Stefani Germanotta is totally Italian, so is she complicit in perpetuating her own stereotype, on screen and stage?

Why, oh why did this supposedly Italian writer close his article with a Spanish word? Another stereotype?

jaclaz2• 3 years ago

Only as a side note, trying to debunk stereotypes about Italians (being uneducated) and closing the (IMHO poor) article with:

Salud!

which is not at all Italian does not help much.

Is "Salud!" something that Italian-Americans (or their Hollywood representations) use?

3littlefish2• 3 years ago

It's something actual Spaniards say! Perhaps he's trying to shift the blame!

NoZebra120vClip3• 3 years ago

Yeah, like when you sneeze. Or having a toast.

Italians say "saluti!"

defrost• 3 years ago

Hollywood pffft.

I get my Italian stereotypes from Fellini's Satyricon, Bozzetto's Allegro Non Troppo and Greenaway's Belly of an Architect.

( likely a few other books and films to boot )

( ok, Greenaway isn't Italian, shrug )

Hollywood's Regressive Stereotypes of Italians

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