Discussioni:mangiachecca

ref mangia-checcha - mangia-checche (ca)

On the other hand, the first generation of immigrants had grown up in a small-scale rural community in Italy which was replicated in Toronto. Affiliation with this community provided some 'hidden' prestige to be held against the Anglo-Canadian pressure to assimilate. The mangia-checcha (hahese for 'cake-eaters', that is, the Anglo-Canadians) were, it seems, both envied and despised. […] the term mangia- checche is still widely used for demarcation, but not in a malicious sense any more, just as the Anglo-Canadian society has accepted the Italians

Fonti: http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/4560/pdf/Auer_Italian_in_Toronto.pdf