My nephew (16, Italian Catholic) and his girlfriend (17, Jew) were at my house when they got into a bizarre argument, the exact causes of which I could not ascertain. She called him a "filthy papist bastard" and a "person of pasta" he replied with something about her still falling over herself for "dago cock" and called her a "fucking red sea pedestrian"
Unsure how to proceed, would teaching them about the 1929 Atlantic City conference and the national crime syndicate be a good way to inspire them to bridge their divide?
As an expert of Italian-American on screen relationships I can tell you that nearly all relationships involving Italian-Americans are antagonistic and filled with creative, often hilarious, insults.
Like the movie Green Book, which is about how all stereotypes about African-Americans are wrong and harmful, but all stereotypes about Italian-Americans are true and good.
Sounds like my love language, to be honest. Insults are a love language, so is smartassery.
