A few years ago the tanned, spiky-haired dummies of
Jersey Shore introduced to America a culture of young people boasting dubious Italian heritage who love house music, Ed Hardy clothing and bar fights over nothing. Although none of the show's original cast members actually hail from Jersey (most of them are from outer-borough New York), television producers decided the Garden State must be the locus of embarrassing people whose great-great grandparents sacrificed everything to come to America, only to have their descendants proudly refer to themselves as "guidos" on television decades later.? [
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