The New York Post's Linda Stasi waded in with a fiery column in which she accused MTV of stereotyping her ethnic group as "gel-haired, thuggish ignoramuses with fake tans, no manners, no diction, no taste, no education, no sexual discretion, no hairdressers for sure , no real knowledge of Italian culture and no ambition".
MTV responded with a statement insisting that the show depicts just one slice of youth culture. The frustration for protesters is that controversy is life blood to any reality show. Jersey Shore's ratings doubled to 2. In one respect, though, MTV may be vulnerable. Advertisers are becoming nervous about appearing during the broadcast.
Domino's Pizza pulled all its commercials, and other brands are thought to be quietly shunning the show. That helps explain MTV's increasingly cautious approach.
It no longer uses the terms "guido" and "guidettes" in its marketing material, and in the last episode it edited out a shocking scene in which one of the four women, Snooki, is punched in the face at a nightclub by a man who was later revealed to be a New York PE teacher.
Even before the episode was shown, the clip of the fight went viral on the internet www. New Jersey's 1. My mother likes the bad boys. It isn't seemly. Plus, she is old enough to be his mother. So the stereotypical associations of Guido go back in considerable detail at least to , four years after Risky Business , but Google Books doesn't provide any matches from earlier than In its pejorative sense, the term may have emerged from a combination of influences, probably not earlier than —but the main ones likely were 1 as a distinctly ethnic Italian name 2 associated first with a comedic figure Father Guido Sarducci and 3 then with a flashy, vulgar, and dangerous stock character from a teen-friendly movie Risky Business.
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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. The origin of the derogatory usage of Guido Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 8 months ago. Active 5 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 2k times. Guido : is a slang term, often derogatory, for a working-class urban Italian American. Wikipedia Is there a reason why, among different typical Italian names of early Italian immigrants, Guido became the one used to refer to Italian immigrants with a negative connotation?
Improve this question. Community Bot 1. So it is used as the name for the prototypical "dumb Italian" in jokes. Like "Sven" and "Ole" for Scandinavian jokes. And, of course, "Guido" sorta sounds "dumb", like the name of a movie thug.
HotLicks - yes, but the same is true for Mario, Luigi, Piero etc Well, Mario is either a singer or the cute little character in the video game, and Luigi is the guy who runs the local pizza joint. They're stereotypes, just different ones.
He told The Hollywood Reporter that "We actually did pull the word 'guidos' from voiceover and descriptions of the show. However, if [the roommates] refer to themselves that way, we let that exist as is. A Guido, he says, is just "a good-looking Italian guy. Many clamor to differ. It's a pejorative word to depict an uncool Italian who tries to act cool. Do younger Americans of Italian descent have a different relationship to the G word? In the same way that radical gays call themselves queer.
There's no date stamp on when the term Guido came into play, but Tricarico theorizes that it very well may have originated as an insult from within the Italian-American community, confering inferior status on immigrants who are "just off the boat. In fact, in different locales, the same slur isn't Guido: in Chicago the term is "Mario" and in Toronto it goes by "Gino.
Tricarico traces the mainstreaming of the term Guido to what he frames as a "moral panic" racing through the media in relation to a racial incident in the predominantly Italian neighborhood of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn.
But he pinpoints the real birth of the Guido subculture to the s.
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