'Guido' Academic Unhappy with 'Jersey Shore' Attention
Queensboro Community College sociologist Donald Tricarico became a hot commodity since the country became fixated on the tan and musclebound cast of MTV’s “Jersey Shore.” He’s been studying the rarefied subculture for decades, publishing his paper “Guido: Fashioning an Italian-American Youth Style” in 1991.
He played ball initially, buffering the complaints of Italian-American organizations in a number of outlets, including TIME last month, “Guido is a slur, but Italian kids have embraced it just as black kids have embraced the N word.
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