Originally Posted By: Ted
Originally Posted By: mulberry
Originally Posted By: stern49
Ted, although they're the same race as you call it. I myself don't consider Italian Americans white. The white people are Anglo Americans or people of Northern European descent. Mexicans and Italians have a lot of similarities.


It depends. Look at how Paul Castellano and most of the NY mobsters thought about Hispanics. Then you also had plenty of Hispanics who worked with the mob. I don't think the Italian gangsters think they're the same as the Hispanics. Italians are closer to Caucasians than they are to Mestizos.

The reason the California mobsters were closer to the Hispanics is because the AB didn't become a force until much later than the Mexican prison gangs. The choice was between aligning with the blacks or the Mexicans.

Good points. And even if Mexican and Italian culture is similar, Italian Americans would definitely have more in common with Caucasians than Mexicans/Mexican Americans.


Italian-Amercians identify with Caucasians more, but I believe that an Italian from southern Italy would have more in common with a mexican than some 4-5th generation Italian-American you grew up in the burbs and is playing gangster. As its been said
so many times before these guys look at the $ differently than we do its about power and respect to them, not to mention both groups have been shown to be ruthless.