Originally Posted By: pizzaboy
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.


Yeah but it works in their favour to limit the amount of outsiders. Plus chinatown itself makes more than enough money when you count all the stores, vendors, sweatshops, brothels,gambling establishments not to mention all the other illegal activity that takes place. And you don't see these guys getting taken down in indictments every year like the mafia has.