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"Silvio Dante: I don't know what you're so hot about. They discriminate against all Italians as a group when they disallow Columbus...

Tony Soprano: Will you fucking stop? "Group"! What the fuck happened to Gary Cooper? That's what I'd like to know.

Silvio Dante: He died. You mean..., 'cause he fought the Sioux in all those westerns? 

Tony Soprano: Fuck that. Gary Cooper. Now there was an American. The strong, silent type. He did what he had to do. He faced down the Miller gang when none of those other assholes would lift a finger to help him. And did he complain? Did he say, "I come from this poor Texas-Irish illiterate fucking background or whatever the fuck, so leave me the fuck out of it, because my people got fucked over"? 

Silvio Dante: T, not for nothing but you're getting a little confused here. A: That was a movie.

Tony Soprano: What a fuck difference does that make? Columbus was so long ago, he might as well have been a fucking movie. Images, you said...

Silvio Dante: The point is, Gary Cooper the real Gary Cooper or anybody named Cooper, never suffered like the Italians. A madigan like him, they fucked everybody else. The Italians, the Polacs, the Blacks.

Tony Soprano: All right, even if he was a madigan around nowadays he'd be a member of some victims' group. The fundamentalist Christians, the abused cowboys, the gays, whatever the fuck!

Chritopher Moltisanti: He was gay, Gary Cooper?

Tony Soprano: No! Are you listening to me? 

Silvio Dante: Hey, people suffered.

Tony Soprano: Did you? Except, for maybe, the feds?

Silvio Dante: My grandparents got spit on because they were from Calabria.

Tony Soprano: Let me ask you a question. All the good things you got in your life did they come to you 'cause you're Calabrese? I'll tell you the answer. The answer is no. You got a smart kid at Lackawanna College. You got a wife who's a piece of ass. At least she was when you married her.

You own one of the most profitable topless bars in North Jersey. Did you get all this 'cause you're Italian? No, you got it 'cause you're you, 'cause you're smart, 'cause you're whatever the fuck.Where the fuck is our self-esteem? That shit doesn't come from Columbus, or The Godfather, or Chef fucking Boyardee. "