>When I lived in Brooklyn I had a chat with this guy on a
>visa, from Italy. Brooklyn has a big Italian American
>community and that's what I knew. This native Italian guy
>made a point to differentiate so-called American Italians
>and himself. He blasted the racist attitudes of the Italian
>Americans. He told me to visit Italy to see the difference.

See....I don't buy into this.

I notice that a lot of Europeans claim that that racial categories aren't a big deal in their countries. Funny, considering that they gave birth to the concept of European standards of beauty. My Korean friend spent a year in Germany...not a day went by without him bein' discriminated by muthafuckas on the basis of his Asian features.