Io Sono Italiano

Italians have great lives. We have big close families, sayings that only Italians can understand, loud family dinners, and food that only an Italian mom can make. Granted we have life pretty good, but as with anything else good in this world, it comes with the bad. Italians are hit with stereotypes that don’t come close to the person that I am. You couldn’t believe how many people think that I have family in the Mafia, all I eat is macaroni or even think that just because I’m Italian I have a huge attitude problem.
Thinking back to the first day of college, my roommate and I can laugh at our first impressions of each other. In preparation of this essay we were talking and she was telling me th...