I noticed some not so agreeing reactions. But I think I didn't put my question right. Maybe I should have put

"meanwhile they know less about the Sicilian maffia."

Instead of

"meanwhile they know nothing about the Sicilian maffia."

I didn't meant to let it look like Americans are stupid, but I just noticed they usually know more about American than about Sicilian maffia. That is of course logical, but I also wanted to see how much they know about Sicilian maffia.


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Originally posted by SC:
The very place of this Mob's origin spells it M-A-F-I-A. Its not that we spell it differently here (in English).

Remember, one of the POSSIBLE origins of the word "Mafia" comes from the cry "[b]Morte All Francia Italia Anelia". [/b]
Actually, they use both forms in Sicily. According to John Dickies "Cosa Nostra", they use both - mafia and maffia - in Sicilian.

About Morte alla Francia, Italia Aliena, I know you said 'possible', but the unlikeliness of this theory is 99,9%. A more plausible explanation is the Arabian "Ma'Afir", but I forgot what it means. MMFloors maybe?

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See, we can act as smart as we want, but at the end of the day, we still follow a guy who fucks himself with kebab skewers.