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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My very Italian grandmother used to judge Irish women for "always wearing outrageous furs, being perfectly coiffed, owning lovely cars and homes but with unruly children in ill-fitting clothing and holes on the soles of their shoes. I cut, dyed my own hair and made do with old clothing so my children could have clothes that fit..." Love the old school Chicago Italian v. Irish wars. [/quote] Love it. I'm pretty sure my great-grandmother judged other Irish women in the tenements. She moved her family to a tenement occupied primarily by Jewish families because she felt they were so much cleaner and more civilized. I'm fairly certain this was an unusual position for an Irish immigrant farmgirl at the turn of the century. The same woman objected strongly to her grandson's engagement to a Japanese-American woman but was quickly won over by the family's extreme cleanliness and deferential attitude toward elders. [/quote]
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