The NJ Chapter of UNICO is one of the few UNICO chapters that hasn't from it's inception taken a "I'm Italian-Please Like Me"position, and instead has struck back at Negative Stereotypes. The almost 40 Comments that accompany the article are either obvious Bigots who say "That's Italian", or the Overwhelming response that  ridicules the caricature.
 
Wop, Dago, Guinea and Guido are all Italian Ethnic Slurs. No Better than Nigger, Spics, Chinks, Slant Eyes, or Kikes.
Sure there are Guidos, like there are Blacks who revel in being "Niggas", Latinos who revel in being a "Homies", or "GangBanger", or Jews who take pride in being "Scammers", but you don't "celebrate" them, or show them as "typical", OR STEREOTYPES, It's "PROFILING" and Defamatory!!!!  
 
UNICO, NIAF, & Sons of Italy must also realize there are a Large Population of Italian Americans that are STILL stuck in that "No Way Out Zone".Those must be Identified and Educated and Encouraged to rise above their "Airhead" Mentality. 

Click here: YouTube - MTV'S "JERSEY SHORE" NEW SERIES 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVWRXZWGzzI

MTV's "Jersey Shore," which premieres next week, stars eight twentysomethings looking for fun at the beach. But an Italian-American group has protested the use of Italian stereotypes in promoting the show. 
"Jersey Shore," the MTV reality show that claims to lift the veil over "one of the Tri-state area?s most misunderstood species - the GUIDO" (as per its press materials), is offensive to Italian-Americans and shouldn't air, says Andre Dimino, the president of UNICO, the national Italian-American service organization based in Fairfield.

UNICO, which also protested the portrayal of Italian-Americans as mobsters in "The Sopranos," says "Jersey Shore," which premieres Dec. 3, plays into another stereotype -- young, dumb fist-pumping guys with a severe hair gel addiction. Teasers for the show spotlight the "hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos" (their words, not ours) working out, working on their tan, and working on their hair. 

Dimino despises the term "Guido." But the word is embraced by the show?s stars (not all of whom hail from New Jersey, mind you), and they are seemingly not without some cultural pride: - I am a good-looking, well-groomed Italian who?s very, very good with the ladies,- boasts one.  [RAA: And you have a College Degree in What ??]

The cast only goes by their first names, and they include two personal trainers, one of whom refers to his abs as "the Situation", a deejay with own personal tanning bed, and a student who goes to the gym in full makeup and hopes to make a splash "with all the juiced-up men"

Dimino says he hasn't heard back from MTV, nor does he expect to. "Trash television sells, and they'd be more interested in making money than how they're offending a great group of people."

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