I don't want to always sound critic of the USA, but if here in Italy you opened an activity with real or supposed insert your favourite heritage here style, no one would ever care.
You would get awful reviews if you weren't doing a good job of it, but aside from that, why would anyone really be offended?
If you guys were coherent, places like Olive Garden should never exist. And I am not even starting on how much of a shit job Olive Garden is doing of trying to look Italian, because I don't care.
Europe, with such a rich mix of cultures should be a trigger-hell for you Americans.
(I am being sarcastic) How can you really cope with all this?
Edit: to add insult to injury, how should we Italians feel about being always portrayed as "pizza, mafia, gobbledygook mamma mia". It's so far from our reality, we don't care.
Edit2: better phrasing
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