Why are Italians and Americans of Italian extraction 'over-represented' — to use, sarcastically, an ambiguous word whose very ambiguity endears it to the politically correct — among the fiscally responsible? Ten reasons.
Sadly, two highly-valued male friends of mine, one a philosopher who does not hike and the other a hiker who does not philosophize, are either clueless or inattentive when it comes to personal finance, like most Americans. Why do they lack basic common sense about matters monetary?
Do I enjoy a species of 'white privilege,' namely, 'Italian privilege?'
My use of 'privilege' here is of course derisive.