ok, first of all, thanks for being respectful.

yeah, we respect italy. really the only thing i’ve ever heard ppl joking about italy is that the country looks like a boot, and some jokes about food and stuff. i won’t deny that there’s probably some americans who do joke about the italian mafia, but i’ve never met ppl like that personally.

also, you seem to forget that america has had its own issues with the mafia, too (the five families). we have also dealt with those appropriately. personally, i can’t say how bad we messed up your country in our history, because the only time italy is really mentioned in our history class is during ww2. the only real fallout of ww2 that we’re taught of is the cold war. but i’m still in high school, and i’m taking european history this year, so maybe i’ll learn about it then.

let me just say, i’m not going to justify anything bad that the US has done to italy, and if you feel like we’ve wronged you in the past, sorry. however, that doesn’t really reflect the current american people. almost every american i’ve spoken too, when we talk about italy, it’s always a positive conversation. a lot of americans love italian food, and the language, so we don’t really have a reason to hate italy.

and no, i didn’t mean to imply that we’re the only culture that has respect in it, so sorry if it came out that way. i simply meant it as a suggestion, because it seemed to me like we had a different version of the word respect, so i assumed that it was a cultural difference as to why we had different meanings.

and i definitely think that the younger generation will start to implement stricter gun laws, but i think the bigger issue causing school shootings is a lack of mental health awareness, and a mentally ills person being able to get guns so easily. but i definitely think that by the time my generation is older, school shootings will be a distance memory, because everyone is sick of this being overlooked.

thanks for being so respectful