What I find is some people forget that, no other criminal group in the US today has had as much success in the past few decades as the Italian-American Mafia has had. For the sole reason that people know the mob was so big and powerful once, when they look at today's modern mob, it looks minuscule in comparison. However, even with other ethnic organized crime groups today, none of them have reached that point in power yet and probably never will simply due to the time's we live in. That's also just what the Italians are doing today, just living under the same roof as all Russians, Asians, Albanians e.t.c.

I think some people automatically assume they have to be the best at everything just because of past days.

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