Here's a sample...WARDROBE: tight zipper shirts, tracksuits, designer jeans, fuzzy kangol hats, tiny hoop earrings, fake gold chains, and related Euro-trash garb and tacky cheese-wear. NATURAL HABITAT: Known to frequent Tri-State area malls looking for club gear to waste their week's pay on (most likely spotted shopping at "Bang Bang" in Staten Island). During the day when not at their food delivery, telemarketting, or construction job, can be located at their local gym tanning or lifting weights. Can be found nightly at mainstream danceclubs they read about online (SF, Webster Hall, Etc.). Most notable for cruising the Jersey shore in an old car (Honda, Mustang, etc.) which has been tinted, painted and sports $1,000-$3,000 rims in a feeble attempt to look like new. Guido cars usually have a boomin' system through which cheesy music like freestyle, commercial club/trance and hip-hop (anything KTU plays) is loudly blasted.
Joined: 27 Nov 2004 {Posts: 1763 } Location: Hudson Valley, NY
Posted: Fri 11 Apr 2008 18:34 Post subject:
They all look radioactive to me. Really.
This "culture" exists primarily in Jersey, Long Island, Brooklyn/Queens/Staten Island/the Bronx (to a lesser extent, the Bronx), parts of Connecticut, parts of the Philly area. Maybe that's why I stay away from those areas. The Guido has changed from the '80s, they are much worse today I think. Also, some Jewish guys on LI could be classified as Guido's. It's a culture that could not be understood by most of the nation, I would say, even upstate NY.
When I was going to college in the early to mid '80s, the JAP was all the rage on college campuses in the tri-state area. JAP being Jewish American Princess. A lot of Italian American girls fell into that category.
This site you posted here reminds me of the other one you posted, the GetOffOurIsland site.
This "culture" exists primarily in Jersey, Long Island, Brooklyn/Queens/Staten Island/the Bronx (to a lesser extent, the Bronx), parts of Connecticut, parts of the Philly area. Maybe that's why I stay away from those areas. The Guido has changed from the '80s, they are much worse today I think. Also, some Jewish guys on LI could be classified as Guido's. It's a culture that could not be understood by most of the nation, I would say, even upstate NY.
Staten Island must be their Jerusalem. Oh you forgot to mention Rhode Island. More than a few out there. A friend of mine from Chicago told me there have been sightings out there as well.
Albanians (in the Bronx at least) appear to have been absorbed into this culture as well. Some of them can be down right ghetto.
Joined: 27 Nov 2004 {Posts: 1763 } Location: Hudson Valley, NY
Posted: Fri 11 Apr 2008 20:37 Post subject:
Guido's were never into rock 'n' roll. In the '70s and '80s, they were disco boys. The John Travolta character in Saturday Night Fever typified the Guido image of that day.
Now it seems they are into gangster rap and try to act ghetto. It makes me laugh when I see this creatures.
Joined: 19 Jan 2006 {Posts: 223 } Location: Southern California
Posted: Fri 11 Apr 2008 23:16 Post subject:
Wow. I had absolutely no idea about this "subculture". But then again I've been living here in Southern California for the last 20 years and never lived on the east coast. Guess you learn something new every day
Joined: 27 Nov 2004 {Posts: 1763 } Location: Hudson Valley, NY
Posted: Sat 12 Apr 2008 00:04 Post subject:
DucorpsToo wrote:
Wow. I had absolutely no idea about this "subculture". But then again I've been living here in Southern California for the last 20 years and never lived on the east coast. Guess you learn something new every day
Yeah, it's primarily a Northeastern problem. To break it down further, mostly within the Greater New York Metropolitan Area. I live in the Northeast, in the northern part of the New York Metro, and we do not have these morons, Thank God. I know a lot of Italian Americans, and they think these cretins are idiots and fools. They really are. I see them occasionally at the rest areas on the New Jersey Turnpike. They stick out like sore thumbs.
I think you just verified what I wrote:
DChapman wrote:
It's a culture that could not be understood by most of the nation, I would say, even upstate NY.
I would stick my neck out and say most "normal" people where ever they live would not understand this.
California and Florida both each have over 1 million people of Italian ancestry, so you would think there are would be a thriving Guido culture in those 2 states but it does not seem to be the case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_American#Communities
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Posted: Mon 14 Apr 2008 12:28 Post subject:
Bischoff wrote:
California and Florida both each have over 1 million people of Italian ancestry, so you would think there are would be a thriving Guido culture in those 2 states but it does not seem to be the case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_American#Communities
The reason I think is that when most Italians migrated to the US, they moved into communities that were people of their ethnicity. Ellis Island had the bulk of the immigration from the 1890's until 1954. Also just about all arrived by boat, into the ports of New York, Boston, Philly, Baltimore. So arriving by boat into an Atlantic port from Europe was feasible. There are still neighborhoods in Brooklyn (Bensonhurst), Queens (Howard Beach), and Staten Island (New Dorp) that are predominately Italian descent.
I would bet that most Italians in Florida have Northeastern roots of some kind. Probably the same in California. But Italians were not relegated into their own segregated communities if you will in those states, hence the reason why there is not a Guido culture. Well there actually might be in some parts of Florida, Guido's flock to Florida during some parts of the year. Ethnic neigborhoods stemmed from people of the same ethnicity being put into the same area, often people who came from the same city in the old country. Little Italy and Chinatown are examples. The Cuban neighborhoods of Miami is an example. Chinatown in San Francisco is another example. Now these types of neighborhoods are chic to an extent. Citites that never had immigration are emulating this. The one thing I actually miss when I go out West/South West is that there really are no ethnic neighborhoods, at least from an ethnic European perspective. That's probably the way it should be, but something I'm not used to in the cities. Where I grew up in the burbs, it was all mixed.
...when most Italians migrated to the US, they moved into communities that were people of their ethnicity...
It is also a generational thing. It has been shown that original immigrants tend to cluster because they are more comfortable surrounded by their own traditions, language, religious, practices, child-rearing customs, etc. But their U.S.-born kids are then raised in public or parrochial schools, where they are exposed to maintream language and customs. They are more mobile than their parents when they mature, and feel no need to cluster by "ethnicity" once they leave home. Their children, in turn, often revive a sanitized version of their grandparents' ethnicity, wheverer they moved to (with Italian-American social clubs and the like). And so, I suspect that the Italian-American ethnicity embraced today in San Francisco by the 3rd-generation descendants of Italian immigrants in the 19th century is not exactly the same thing as the ethnicity felt by their grandparents. (Trivia point: The original name of the Bank of America, when it was founded as a local San Francisco bank, was "Bank of Italy.")
This "culture" exists primarily in Jersey, Long Island, Brooklyn/Queens/Staten Island/the Bronx (to a lesser extent, the Bronx), parts of Connecticut, parts of the Philly area. Maybe that's why I stay away from those areas. The Guido has changed from the '80s, they are much worse today I think. Also, some Jewish guys on LI could be classified as Guido's. It's a culture that could not be understood by most of the nation, I would say, even upstate NY.
When I was going to college in the early to mid '80s, the JAP was all the rage on college campuses in the tri-state area. JAP being Jewish American Princess. A lot of Italian American girls fell into that category.
This site you posted here reminds me of the other one you posted, the GetOffOurIsland site.
Yes, you're on point with their geographical location.
Northern NJ has a ton.
In NJ we also use a term called "Meatwackers" for a certain segment of Guidos (they tend to be into the bodybuidling/gym culture, love showing off their bodies, always tanned and baby oiled up, cocky walk, and a simplistic robotic type dance)
Italian culture is dying in San Francisco, from what I have been told the demographics of their Little Italy which is called North Beach is starting to become increasingly more Chinese causing many Italians to go "White flight" into the suburbs. Thats what happens when you create a Little Italy within such close proximity to a Chinatown.
Joined: 27 Nov 2004 {Posts: 1763 } Location: Hudson Valley, NY
Posted: Mon 14 Apr 2008 17:42 Post subject:
Bischoff wrote:
Italian culture is dying in San Francisco, from what I have been told the demographics of their Little Italy which is called North Beach is starting to become increasingly more Chinese causing many Italians to go "White flight" into the suburbs. Thats what happens when you create a Little Italy within such close proximity to a Chinatown.
Little Italy and Chinatown are in the same general area in Manhattan. Sometimes you can go from one to the other without knowing it. A lot of the Italians have moved out into the suburbs, leaving the older folks behind. As they pass on, the neighborhood changes. But the mob has an influence in the area as they have "social clubs". Actually there is a larger Chinese neighborhood in Flushing, Queens. Chinatown in San Francisco is in the Grant St. area downtown. North Beach is not downtown.
Italian culture is dying in San Francisco, from what I have been told the demographics of their Little Italy which is called North Beach is starting to become increasingly more Chinese causing many Italians to go "White flight" into the suburbs. Thats what happens when you create a Little Italy within such close proximity to a Chinatown.
North Beach, rich in Italian heritage compresses cabarets, jazz clubs, galleries, inns, family style restaurants and gelato parlors into less than a square mile. Bakeries and delicatessens serve up such traditional Italian delicacies as prosciutto, provolone, mozarella, St. Honore cake and sacripantina. A perfect spot for cappuccino and espresso, North Beach is transformed into one of San Francisco's most electric playgrounds by night; live music and dancing keep the streets swinging.
Spazio Italiano SF
1853 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
Ph: 415-573-9542
Spazio Italiano SF provides Italilan language classes and workshops for children and their families. Morning programs are language specific and are focused on children 18 months to four years of age.
Afternoon workshops offer language classes as well as cooking, art, and sport for children five to ten years old.
Caregivers, as well as families, are encouraged to participate in the language programs with adult classes available in the evenings. www.spazioitalianosf.com
the Guido culture (Bad Hair,Chest hair showing,Wife beaters,cheap suits,gold chains) extends beyond italian americans it can be found among Israelis,Levantine Arabs,Morrocans in france,Syrian-Jews of brooklyn
Joined: 27 Nov 2004 {Posts: 1763 } Location: Hudson Valley, NY
Posted: Fri 19 Sep 2008 14:45 Post subject:
Jewcepticon wrote:
the Guido culture (Bad Hair,Chest hair showing,Wife beaters,cheap suits,gold chains) extends beyond italian americans it can be found among Israelis,Levantine Arabs,Morrocans in france,Syrian-Jews of brooklyn
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Oh you forgot to mention Rhode Island. More than a few out there. A friend of mine from Chicago told me there have been sightings out there as well.
