On another note, there's a similar (NOT identical, Im not juxtaposing the situation in the two countries) issue in Australia where Italian-Australian gangsters are automatically lumped together with Ndrine elements or named as "mafia members". While the two are not mutually exclusive, they are often independant notions.
I've always found this fascinating, in the States Italian born criminals are far more likely to work with American born Italian-American criminals when they arrive than their Commonwealth emigrating cousins. Italian criminals work independently and with loyalties based on family and local customs. Native born Italian-Canadians and the differences of Italians in Montreal. Same with Melbourne. With the exception of the strictly Sicilian Cherry Hill Gambinos, Italians emigrating to the states are more likely to work with their American born counterparts than other Italian immigrants and their native born Australians and Canucks.
On an American level it shows how arrivals here will throw off old country loyalties much quicker
