Italian

A male of Italian descent. You will notice they are Italian because they feel compelled to tell you about it all the time. They evaluate everything around them on a scale of manliness which is reminiscent of a 7th graders idea of maturity - otherwise known as Machismo. Italian men are abused by their fathers. Their mothers come to their rescue and coddle them. They loathe themselves because they are mamas boys who feel they never measured up to their father's equally fucked up view of manliness. Most Italian-American's long for people to associate them with the ridiculous mafia characters produced by Hollywood. This is similar to how African-American youth attempt to identify with the gangsters from their own neighborhood. The idea is rather than earn respect from others, they can scare it out of them. The equivalent of this would be white people who want to be associated with the mountain men from deliverance. Italian people would be wonderful people if only their own insecurity/inferiority didn't make them act like such overbearing, loudmouth assholes.