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"Count Italian-American Alyssa Milano among the non-fans of MTV&amp;apos;s new reality show Jersey Shore.\r\nThe show -- which follows the booze-fueled nights of eight self-described &amp;quot;guidos&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;guidettes&amp;quot; on the Jersey Shore -- has outraged Italian-Americans, who claim it exploits a stereotype and gives the vacation destination a bad rap.\r\nUNICO National, the nation&amp;apos;s largest Italian American service organization, has even asked MTV to cancel the show.\r\n\r\nMilano, 36, can see why.\r\n&amp;quot;My husband actually showed me the trailer on YouTube last night, and I got upset,&amp;quot; she told Usmagazine.com Thursday at the UNICEF ball in Beverly Hills. &amp;quot;It upset me. I was like, &amp;apos;Turn that off!&amp;apos; So no, I don&amp;apos;t think I&amp;apos;ll be watching that!&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nBut 21-year-old Jersey Shore star Nicole -- a.k.a. &amp;quot;Snookie&amp;quot; -- doesn&amp;apos;t see what the big deal is.\r\n&amp;quot;The Italian, whatever, national, whatever their organization is, they don&amp;#x2019;t understand that &amp;apos;guidos&amp;apos; and &amp;apos;guidettes&amp;apos; are good-looking people that, you know, like to make a scene and be center of attention and just take care of themselves,&amp;quot; she said on The Wendy Williams Show Friday (check your local listings). &amp;quot;They are old-fashioned. They don&amp;apos;t know that; they think it&amp;apos;s offensive, because maybe in their time it was offensive, but now it&amp;apos;s kind of a compliment. So they don&amp;apos;t understand that and that is what we are trying to say. They are way overreacting to the show. We&amp;apos;re 22 to 29 just having fun at the shore. They are just taking it way out of proportion.&amp;quot;\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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