If Tony had better opportunities...

...how do you think he would've turned out? What I mean is that he came to this country and was imprisoned right from the start. He was released only because Manny had connections to Lopez and they killed Rebenga for him, only to be launched out with a crappy job and the clothes on his back, which led him to seek his fortune in cocaine. What if he had the same opportunities that americans have? With being able to go to school and go to college and have a regular, honest, good paying career. Would he be the same ambitious Tony we all know and love and maybe become the head of a major corporation and still reap the same rewards he got as a kingpin? Would he be a regular working class joe? Would he inevitably go into the cocaine industry(because as Vito Corleone said, "A man has but one destiny.")? What do you think?

Well I don't know that he'd end up as a drug kingpin but the violence in him might kick him out the street inevitably. He seems endowed with the type of brawling nature that wouldn't work well in a normal, civil, buisness setting. However would he even have been violent if not jailed and kicked around for most of his youth. I mean he was jailed and kicked around in Cuba and then sent to America to be further jailed and kicked around. That kind of treatment breeds hatred for your fellow man. However, I think there's some violence in his character, and a disregard for other people's feelings, that would have been there regardless of the opprutinties and treatment he recieved. So even given the chance to make money doing something legit I think he would have eventually slipped into some kind of shady behavior. Though maybe something less dangerous and destructive than cocain.