NEW YORK – “Shame on you”. “You are not part of the Italian family”. “From now on I will hide my origin”. But also, “hold on”, “I believe him”, “you have defeated the Covid emergency, don’t give up now”. The alibi of the “Italian style” invoked by the former governor Andrew Cuomo, to justify kisses, hugs, sexual jokes and the tentacular use of hands on the bodies of collaborators, did not pass the examination of the Italian-American community, or at least not all: from Tuesday, after the heated self-defense of twenty-two minutes in to which Cuomo announced his resignation, but defining himself as a victim of the “cultural and generational leap” that he had not realized, the “paisà” of America are split.
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