Rest In Peace to Gov. Cuomo (1)


Without being disrespectful to this thread which is about his life and legacy, I ask what leads people to think that Cuomo had contempt for his heritage?

He was married to an Italian woman(Sicilian), he remained a Roman Catholic, and he never changed his surname.

Conspicuously converting to Protestantism, marrying a wasp or person outside of your ethnic background deliberately, and anglicizing your name are the general things that people who want to distance themselves from their white ethnic roots do.
Not necessarily indications of self hatred/contempt but of wish to assimilate into what they view as "American" culture. Mr Cuomo did neither and I've heard in real life and now on this board that he held his heritage in contempt.

Could it be that he held media stereotypes of Italians in contempt and not his heritage. I read years ago that he refused to see The Godfather and I assumed that it was for this reason.