by AustraliaSteve » Tue Aug 25, 2015 5:07 am
Not American, so don't bite my head off. But wouldn't it just come down to the populace, history and socio-economic conditions of a particular location? Like, a rowdy-ish group of middle aged Italian dudes in a seedy little bar in the Bronx or LI would garner a bit more "respect" than than the same group in say, Minnesota or North Carolina? Maybe a little off-topic, but in my part of the world, I remember a little 'ethnic" bar my grandfather would go to,where known criminals of Italian extraction would congregate. I remember these guys having their own table, laughing and sneering at the 'plebs', and having their drinks on tab. I went there recently, and there was one Italian guy left (looking about 50 years older then the 10 it'd been) and he was surrounded by El Salvadoreans and other Spaniards, Latin American or otherwise. Times change. It's what makes us different from the rocks.
Not American, so don't bite my head off. But wouldn't it just come down to the populace, history and socio-economic conditions of a particular location? Like, a rowdy-ish group of middle aged Italian dudes in a seedy little bar in the Bronx or LI would garner a bit more "respect" than than the same group in say, Minnesota or North Carolina? Maybe a little off-topic, but in my part of the world, I remember a little 'ethnic" bar my grandfather would go to,where known criminals of Italian extraction would congregate. I remember these guys having their own table, laughing and sneering at the 'plebs', and having their drinks on tab. I went there recently, and there was one Italian guy left (looking about 50 years older then the 10 it'd been) and he was surrounded by El Salvadoreans and other Spaniards, Latin American or otherwise. Times change. It's what makes us different from the rocks.