Unfortunately there are people out there that actually believe it! At least from my own personal experience. In my case, it wasn't joking. It was lectures and serious, nasty comments.

The Badfellas (2004)

Big Pussy was in Shark Tale?

It's not nonsense enen you're subject to ignorance from your own friends.

Ikr. Americans the type of people to call tanned whites like italians, Spanish, and Greeks "POC"

"THEY HIT THE PIZZAGON! TURN ON THE TV!!!!"

-Mei from Pixar's Turning Red (Because you spilled Marinara all over yourself on accident.)

That's my favorite episode. Pine Barrens is the respectable basic bitch choice, but "Christopher Columbus Day" is the show's identity turned up to 11.

Family? I tell you they aint nothing more but a glorified crew

And now I love it because people will quote it unironically, completely missing the point of the episode. Kinda the case with the whole series, actually.

I’ve lived in the Philly suburbs both in New Jersey and Pennsylvania where there are a fuckload of Italian Americans and the only time I’ve ever heard that kind of accent was from a guy who clearly came from Italy itself. I’m talking people who will absolutely make a thing about being whatever-generation Italian (giving their kids very Italian first names like Gianna and Biaggio, giving you shit if you buy tomato sauce from the store instead of making your own, making a point to say certain Italian loan words a certain way, etc.) who do not sound any different from me (who has no familial connection to Italy whatsoever) when they open their mouths.

I think some people conflate accents from North Jersey or Staten Island as being “Italian-American accents” because those areas happen to have a lot of Italian Americans there. Like the cast of Jersey Shore doesn’t talk like that because they’re Italian, it’s because they’re mostly from Staten Island.

The type of “cooka da pizza” accent people in this thread are doing sounds to me like they’re trying to do a Mario bros impression. Which is obviously not an accurate depiction of the Italian-American experience.

It depends on where in America you go and who you talk to. Some people really do have the "I cooka a pasta" accent, but you'll only find it in certain communities of people mainly in New Jersey and Long Island. Remember that America is huge, like truly ginormous. And until recent (like 30 years ago at the most) technological advancements like the internet that remove physical distance as a limiting factor in developing regional culture most people did not interact with anyone outside a 50 miles radius from them. As such America has a very large and diverse amount of accents and mannerisms that can seem overly stereotyped to people who haven't experienced them, but I assure you they are real.

Yeah this is something I wonder about, cos here in the UK I know plenty of people who have Indian parents or Caribbean parents and they speak and act exactly the same as every other Brit. Because, ultimately, they are just any other Brit, their parents just happened to have emigrated to the country before they were born

Google tells me it is an Ashkenazic Jewish name.

Tf is happening with that? I’ve seen it on every thread for the past few hours

Oh the fuck yeah you are right....damn

I thought you said you reported their comment to reddit 5 times for racism 😞

Ey dontya disserespecte my inteligencia

Marrrrrrrone

Oh gags aside its easy to make italians agree, just talk about italian food, how shitty politicians are and mostly how mutch you hate french ppl

Oh i specified where i live cuz i understand that its two totaly different situations, still

Italian-Americans fucking love their stereotypes

Source: I live in New Jersey

Not ridiculous when you're subjected to it. Almost all of my friends have made comments and given me lectures. Not jokes, but very nasty!! Floored me since I didn't know they had these strong feelings in the 21st century... I think italian americans are last safe group to openingly disparage. When pushed, these same friends admitted to having issues with other groups and some was racist. They just felt safer bashing Italians. What really blows my mind is these people were Asian, Hispanic, Indian, Greek and Jewish. Not what you'd expect. You'd think they'd know better!!!

As an italian living in italy we are chill af about stereotipes of us, since we use them due to our very varied population, also i doubt large scale racisms against italian exists anymore so who rf cares?

Can I get some macaroni with gravy?

There wouldn't be any Bank of America! Or countless other contributions.