I Have to Get This Off My Chest, Any Italian Who is a Bigot is More of an Asshole Than Anyone Else

[NewJeffCT]

10. On assimilation

my great grandparents on my mom's side came here from Italy and Sicily around 1900. (Sicily, or "up north" if you heard the Sicilian side talk about it - even though "up north" was only in Naples, still considered very much Southern Italy)

All of my great grandparents passed away before I was born, except for one great grandmother, who passed away some time in the mid 1970s. However, even though she had lived here for a good 70 years, she barely spoke any English that entire time - she lived in a Sicilian community within Middletown, Connecticut that allowed her to do her grocery shopping (at the still existing Public Market on Main Street), get her haircut, go to the Pharmacy, etc without ever having to deal with people that spoke anything but Sicilian. And, this was in a small city/large town of only 30,000 to 40,000 or so people. So, she never really assimilated into American culture and I've always considered at least some of those stories about how grandma or grandpa came to this country and worked hard to learn perfect English while working 5 jobs to make ends meet to be BS. (In some cases, I said, not all)