Lots of Prejudice, but what about pride?

It would seem impossible to hurt the feelings of a senior citizen who has seen everything, and some things twice, but BBC Prime has managed to hurt me deeply in a programme recently aired which tried to list the 50 dishes one must taste before dying.
The programme was pleasantly superficial and took the viewer all over the world, presenting items which even I had never heard of but which sounded tempting and interesting. In many cases the presentation was accompanied by a brief skit to introduce the atmosphere of the Country, Region or Town famous for the delicacy which was being presented.
When the moment came for Neapolitan Pizza, my Italian heart swelled with pride, and I thought that, finally, the BBC would be justified in bringing out its mandolins and serenading viewers to the tune of “O Sole Mio”, which it invariably plays when showing documentaries about the Dolomite Alps or the City of Venice (It would be like playing “My Old Kentucky Home” while showing pictures of Alaska).
The Leit Motif, instead was the Mafia, and the music, I believe, was based on the score of “The Godfather” while the screen was filled with sinister figures in dark glasses and mention was even made of horses’ heads.
I won’t go into the fact that Pizza has nothing to do with Sicily and that the Mafia has nothing to do with Naples: these are items of local lore of which foreigners can very easily and understandably be unaware. I do however deeply resent the fact that so often images of Italy are associated with, of all things, the Mafia, while my Country has so much to offer which is more interesting and even amusing,
The Mafia is a terrible phenomenon which has nothing amusing about it and which damages and degrades the people of Sicily in many ways. Many Magistrates and Police officers, as well as ordinary citizens, have been killed while trying to oppose the Mafia, and turning it into a light-hearted background for the presentation of Pizza is cruelly unjust and in bad taste,