Amazoniac
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It's not that, we all knows he was in part being facetious. However! I have the impression that Travos tries to dissociate himself from anything that is synthesized by his italian stereotype. We're all subject to variances in state, but I guess for someone with extreme skull expansion such as him, you run the risk of building your identity on being the smart, and when step outside of such zone (especially against your will, after an alliamide attack for example), you's haunted by an image of turning into your antithesis: the extravagant person that's moved by emotions with immoderate behaviors as a reflect of lack of tenmal clarity.I don't think the whole 'Sicilian Brain' comment was an uncivil remark lol he was just kidding/correlating the high olive oil consumption per capital of Italy compared to the rest of the world :) the dude had me rolling with that whole convo actually!
And personally I love Cat videos AND I'm a non denominational Christian but I think Travis is hilarious and his comments make me laugh even the ones that I could take as a personal attack if I felt like getting butt hurt about something...not to mention stereotypes are founded on a truth and so when people broach stereotypes that I could belong to I just remind myself it's mostly true even if the tone is a tad harsh. We're all just parodies of ourself and if you can laugh it then all humor and good will is lost on you.
P.S. psychotic stick figures, and eloquently broken English makes me think of super villains from freakazoid
Every mockery serves to distantiate himself from a side that he fears more than others for threatening his identity. Instead of wearing a Joy Divison shirt, Travi wears one carrying the word Vernunft or Logik, I remember commenting this with him.
Anyway, isn't it curious how I've just quoted a german to make that point?
Part of my family is italian (dammit), and it seems to me that a great deal of their behavior can be attributed to habit. Kids growing up with everyone around being expressive and warming, they must eventually adopt the same (learned) behavior; they'll for the sure try to avoid being misfits and perhaps might even exaggerate those characihetaitsics to stand out in the group. It then turns into part of their identity and they's proud of it; not being contained definitely draws more attention to you, making you hooked to it. If you ask them why they behave in such way, they'll reply by saying it's the 'italian genes' with a 'hell, yeah'.
@olive - Don't mind this thread, it's nothing personal (it can't be).
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