'Jersey Shore' Cast Banned From Filming At Florence's Popular Tourist Attractions

Get real they are the most ignorant. I can not express it enough...they are not Jersey people. The are all NY transplants. Go back to NY they are used to your ignorant habits.

Since so many Americans of Italian decent and New Jersey natives are offended by by this group, who in their right mind thought that actual native Italians would put up with such negative stereotypical crap?!

I WISH NJ SHORE GROUP GET LOST. THEY GAVE NJ SHORE BAD NAME AND THEY ARE JUST PLAIN STUPID. LIVING LIKE LEACHES FROM TV SHOW. GET A REAL JOB YOU ARE DEFINITELY OLD ENOUGH AND GIVE NJ A BREAK.

Yeah they might be perpetuating a sterotype, but isn't it the duty of the individual to not let it change they way he or she feels about Italians?
I'm in college so I know what most young twenty-somethings are like, and in fact, most young twenty-somethings are ignorant, self-absorbed, horny and immature.
I think they are being themselves and that I cannot hold against them.
The show is funny and I've seen Italian television before. It's not like its so much more sophistocated and educational than American television. Most talk shows are hosted by scantily clad bimbo models and the Italians have a taste for slapstick.
The whole thing is being blown out of proportion; and I'm sure the guidos and guidettes on the show are thrilled that they get to go to the motherland for free.
And so what if they are trashy? There's trashy people everywhere, even in Florence. Aren't we infact being intolerant of people from uneducated working-class families? That's just pure snobbery.

I am surprised that they were even allowed in the country. Popularity counts for little and in their case, it simply means that more people know that they are disgusting with both domestic and international audiences.

The city of Florence does not need white trash filming there. The cast represents uneducated, self absorbed people who add no value to American society except a negative self image of our society.

The Ugly American stereotype, while false across the board, has many examples that created and have maintained the image. Jersey Shore "highlights" would lead me to bring out the plastic plates and hide the fine china. That the cast has a job is good. That they keep that job by being themselves in all their depth and superficiality is fine. Let them show a modicum of respectful appreciation without cameras before they get access with cameras to wherever they choose. Perhaps if I watched the show I could recall the occasion(s) a cast member treated any place as anything other than a crash pad, a shore bar or an opportunity to pick-up, hook-up or throw-down. If I can get paid for being my limited self, with no incentive to grow and learn, what would I do? Find a monastery for each cast member, give them two weeks on their own, would they last? Imagine.

the ugly americans stereotype...