One of my aunts (my grandfather’s brother’s wife)… is Italian, has a son that got involved in the Mafia, and was unhinged in her younger years (not to mention she was a tuberculosis survivor), or even when she got older. She tried to dye her kids hair black (they were adopted). It is a long story. I actually like her, she was a nice person… the rest of the family just thinks she’s nuts. I always thought some of the stuff said about her was a bit over-the-top, just because she wasn’t a WASP from Oklahoma like them, just an Italian coal-miner’s daughter from Pennsylvania. Just like for many years, only my uncle would acknowledge we had any Injun blood in us at all (it turns out I’m at least 6 percent Indian, I could be more- the dark secret is alot of folks in that part of the country don’t like talking about it).
The other young woman I was attracted to several years ago (that turned out to be, um, insane)… she was half-Italian, and her mother was schizotyphrenic (and full Italian). The father must have had the patience of a saint, or he was whipped really good… I could never tell.
OTOH my favorite Latin teacher in highschool was Italian, and she wasn’t crazy (she was very nice and funny, even though she had survived a pretty bad bout with breast cancer), so I guess there are at least a few Italian women I know that aren’t insane. And I guess you are OK too, Bella. So that makes it 50/50. Italian women are only half insane- I gotta be sure not to get on your crazy side, 'cause when Italians don’t like you, they get nasty 
It’s like a bunch of harpies comming after you to tear your flesh off 
We WASPS are so uptight, we just tend to ignore people we don’t like, or give them cold looks… 