How Bodega typifies Silicon Valley’s cultural ignorance

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

> if here in Italy you opened an activity with real or supposed insert your favourite heritage here style, no one would ever care

I bet many people would care, but they would not persistently & vocally voice their discomfort for fear of retribution/confrontation.

> how should we Italians feel about being always portrayed as "pizza, mafia, gobbledygook mamma mia"?

In popular media? Complain to the broadcaster/studio/publisher, support organisations like the Italic Institute of America to do this on your behalf.

Why should you do that? Because you think that the stereotypes unfairly prejudice Italians who may be denied opportunities in those countries.

I think your comment perfectly proves GP's point.

> I bet many people would care, but they would not persistently & vocally voice their discomfort for fear of retribution/confrontation.

How about: because they have better things to do with their time? The perception of oppression of any group you can name is mostly just manufactured.

> Because you think that the stereotypes unfairly prejudice Italians who may be denied opportunities in those countries.

If this is actually happening, then such a country has a much deeper problem of people being dumb enough to deny opportunities out of petty prejudices. This is not a normal state.