Originally Posted By: Scorsese
The tongs in chinatown are pretty powerful, they have connections to triads, snakeheads, as well as loan sharking and large-scale gambling operations. They are also involved with a lot of legitimate businesses and even trade unions.

That's true, but you almost never see them loaning money or gambling with non-Asians. That's what sets the Italians apart from them here in the States. Italian Americans will do business with other ethnic groups. The Asians are so clannish they won't even leave Chinatown for chemotherapy.


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