Hello everybody.I'm a new member,i'm italian and i'm interested about the italian mafia in USA.Here in italy the only ways to know about the american mafia are books and some news articles on internet.Now finally i found this forum where i can read and know a lot of interesting things.
Now i have two questions:

- i would to know the difference between made men and associates
- the made men and the associates are all and only italians?how is possible that families continue to recruit italian men?where they get all these italians today that the immigration phenomena is over?
- currently in the territory of new york there is a neighborhood populated mostly by the mafia where there are social club and italian bar as i watch in various film(donnie brasco,goodfellas,a bronx tale,sopranos)?or this is just a thing of past?

i hope i've been clear,i'm sorry for my not good english.Please answer!!!