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In reply to the discussion: So, what "Shithole" country did your ancestors come from? [View all]ProfessorGAC
(65,058 posts)37. Sicily (Wops) and Calabria (Dagos)
My GF moved here in 1925 (in the no immigrants era) to escape the gradual Mussolini purge of Sicilians
He was a railroad worker, and I mean on the train itself
Came here to be a fireman (coal shoveler) on the Penn Central and moved to Chicago (family already there) to work on the Rock Island as a brakeman, which is what he did in southern Italy
It's why I get black guys using the N word. I use wop, guinea, and dago in my family all the time!
It's a way of diluting the impact, but really Italian Americans haven't had to worry about a fucking thing in my lifetime and I was born in 1956!
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I never understood why you left. The neighborhood went to hell and back afterwards. Now you can't
politicaljunkie41910
Jan 2018
#83
I beg to differ. "Shinola" the shoe polish came first before the luxury goods Shinola Detroit
politicaljunkie41910
Jan 2018
#144
Italy and Ireland. I got DNA from Other Shitholes, I mean, Garden Spots
TheOther95Percent
Jan 2018
#91
Lithuania (or Russia, depending on the year and the borders) and White Russia
no_hypocrisy
Jan 2018
#101
Scots-Irish from Northern Ireland in mid 1700s (paternal) & 1700s From England (maternal).
CottonBear
Jan 2018
#119
Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell's the matter with you?! Stupid!
Algernon Moncrieff
Jan 2018
#129