to some extent this is true but you can make generalizations like that about any culture, and I've always been proud of my Sicilian heritage because our amazing artistic and culinary skills not for being "Manly" of course I'm not exactly ranked with John Wayne on the manliness scale either, I've always been somewhat of a scrawny dude with enough respect and humbleness to get through life without any enemies, and I have a much more cold calculating anger than the blind dumb rage you typically see from "Manly" meat heads, as do the rest of my family. And as far as the dropping the rifle part you are going to have to be more specific as to which era of Italians you are speaking of, Ive had family who have fought, and I mean fought not just served, in every major war since WWI.