Haha thats a very good one!

ANyway...It's true that when I say that i'm Italian people make jokes about the mafia (and espacially when they aks me: and where from Italy and I say Sicily)..But here in Holland they dont think immediatly: Italy? Mafia!. They see ITaly as a beautiful country and everyone has been there on vacation at least once and they love it. And the mafia is not very bad, it's more cool because the only thing they know about it is The Godfather. They know its bad but their first reaction about the mafia is not negative.
But also a Sicilian friend of my father calls me Don Paolo because he knows im interested in the mafia...The dutch kids of my age (16) think its cool, the mafia is cool..

But actually its very discriminating that they see Italians (Sicilians) as mafiosi. I'll give an example.
Here in Holland there are many muslims (mostly from turkey and marocco). Those are sometimes discriminated (because of the terrorist and to be honoust they make many problems). But people would never say to them: so your a muslim, when are you going to fly with a plane in a building?
But its (almost) the same as as asking a italian if hes a mafioso.

But cut the crap...I dont give a .... if they ask me if im a mafioso, i find it funny! They dont want to offend you, they want to be nice. And Italians aren't hate there loved! People love Italy and Italians.

But....the Italians in New Orleans in the early 1900's were discriminated very much..that's true..

But anyway, in general people love italians (and they are right!!) Italian romance! Italians know how to tread wimen(?)/women. There food is very good. They talk, eat, talk, talk, eat, talk and talk...Ferrari, Lamborghini, Armani, Alfa Romeo, Versace...Haha