Italian-American Group Begs Italy-Bound Jersey Shore: Please, Find Another Country

Will MTV’s Jersey Shore be good news for Italy–or Italian Americans? The hit show has announced its upcoming fourth season will be shot on location in Italy, and that has the president of an Italian American group says the news is “unfortunate.”

Joseph V. Del Raso, president of The National Italian American Foundation, has never liked Jersey Shore, describing it as a high-profile platform for compounding the worst possible stereotypes about Italians (full disclosure: my last name does, in fact, end in a vowel).

Now, with MTV planning to export the entire Jersey Shore cast to Italy in the spring, Del Raso’s telling the Hollywood Reporter he’s not a happy man:

“It is unfortunate that American television producers want to export an image of young Americans that has little to do with the image of most of our youth. American youth has so much to offer the modern world and it is certainly not representing by the caricatures portrayed by the Jersey Shore cast.”

Perhaps Snooki and company would be happier someplace else? Maybe a country eager for attention from MTV viewers around the world? Just thinking out loud here, just spitballing it, but what about, say, Jersey Shore: Kyrgyztan?

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