Are Italians considered white? Because they're comically racist. Can "real" whites still be racist against Italians if so? Because it would probably be a downer to see it downgraded to something fickle like prejudice.
Roommate is Italian, from the east coast. I make lots of comments about Italians he thinks are racist. East coast has kept their cultural identity among the separate European cultures inside of cities. He gets really mad at things named after mafia characters, restaurants in particular, and thinks its really racist. His parents are hilariously east coast Italian though, mom wears leopard print coats, smokes a lot, is incredibly overbearing on him ("joohnny you aren't getting enough food, you need to eat more!"). As a kid, he would get presents from his cousins that "fell off the back of a truck". I find the stories really fun.
He also talks a lot about not liking black people, not all of them though, just the thugs
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