Johnny Marzetti's House

 

Meeting Johnny Marzetti

"Johnny Marzetti Special"
Available only on Mondays at Michael's Goody Boy Diner
1144 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio

Gringo Minority

FURTHER CONVERSATIONS WITH MY SISTER ...

I'm glad our kids don't have that whole cultural bias thing...maybe it is a good idea to grow up "everything and nothing"

Interesting phenomenon though, being "everything and nothing", sort of a generic brown person.

That's what it felt like to me.

Funny how folks want you to proclaim your allegiance to one race

Yeah true

Some Blacks preach to me that I should have racial pride, I tell them I have plenty. Then I remind them that I have an Asian/Pacific Islander facet, too. On the other side, Filipinos get pissed at me when they discover I don't understand Tagolog.

I suppose we should be proud of the human race then....

Dad likes to claim the Native American part

I know

Too funny

That's a tiny fraction though

He has no real clue about Native culture

Teeny tiny

Our culture is middle-class, urban America which for us was Brady Bunch re-runs and tuna on white bread. A Filipino/American friend & I came up with a name for us: GRINGO MINORITY because we’re Brown Americans, raised by our non-white ethnic parents with no distinctive culture or language beside mainstream-American English.

I don't think dad likes the whole Black part too cause he used to say " we have very little Black…very little" whenever I asked what nationality we were

It’s weird, I know! He and his wife are not exactly Black Panthers

I love the Black part! Kick-ass food & culture...

…and emphasized the Irish (or Scottish depending on when he was telling it) and the Native American

The folks in Dad’s hometown kept telling me when I visited that we're English!!

oy vey!

…and our aunt, Dad's sister, sat in front of me & my husband when we visited and told us she couldn't help it if she acted White since it was in her blood.

How funny!

I think the floor dented from my husband’s jaw hitting it and his tongue was bleeding from biting it. I may have I strained an eyebrow muscle from the abrupt raising of it.

Sometime’s people's perspective's are hilarious

(OF COURSE, NOT WHEN THEY'RE CHASING AFTER YOU....)