Don’t care if he was Sicilian. His “crying Native American” anti-littering commercial made a huge impact. It says a lot about the US that you don’t see these kinds of PSAs anymore.
Plenty of Native Americans who could have filled those roles, and were doing actual environmental activism instead of a kitchy, fake act. He did it for profit.
My only complaint about that is growing up native, there were several times when a person I had just randomly met would look at me and say, are you native? To which I would say yes I am, and they would say what tribe, and I would say Lakota, and they would say if I throw this piece of trash on the ground will it bring a tear to your eye? And I would then murder them.
That PSA may have prevented a lot of littering but it also cost a lot of lives.
