You'll never get an argument from me, my friend. I've known it all my life.
I tell my Jewish friends all the time (yourself included), that if a Jew spots something in an Italian that he doesn't like, or an Italian spots something in a Jew that he doesn't like, it's only because he's seeing himself. I mean, who really likes himself?
From our guilt based theologies, to our overbearing and slightly psychotic mothers, we are EXACTLY the same.