Italian-American groups appetite MTV to draw its fresh alternation "Jersey Shore," but some Fresh Yorkers aren't accepting agita over showcasing the Garden State's "craziest guidos." The absoluteness alternation - which promises "there's no aerosol tan too orange, no beard too spiked" for its casting of beer-guzzling beachgoers - has created an uproar alike afore it premieres on Dec. 3.
The appearance is "trash television," according to UNICO National President Andre DiMino, who is affronted that promos use the debasing "guido."
"We find this program alarming in that it attempts to make a direct connection between 'guido culture' and Italian-American identity," said National Italian American Foundation President Joseph Del Raso.
But in Manhattan's Little Italy, the cheeky promos didn't raise eyebrows.
"No, it's not offensive, but I'm not PC. It's funny," said accountant and pizza maker Giuseppi Emanuele, 38, of the Bronx.
"If they're gonna be tan and wear a guido T and chains, if they're gonna act like that and look like that, they deserve to be stereotyped."
Roberto Galante, 27, who works at a pizzeria in Little Italy, says he'll give the show a chance - even though he isn't keen on the flippant use of the word "guido."
"It depends on who's saying it," he said. "If an Italian is calling another Italian it, then, no, it's a joke."
MTV defends the show as continuing the network's tradition of documenting young people's rites of passage and adds that "the Italian-American cast takes pride in their ethnicity."
