As for the death of Italian culture:

In my neighborhood, there is Papa John's that opened up DIRECTLY across the street from an independent pizza shop called John's Pizza.

John's pizza has a staff with Italian accents, personally knows his customers, sells large pies with fresh mozzarella.

Papa John's, as you can imagine, has a couple kids taking orders for 8 bucks an hour and sells (essentially) cheap, microwaved pizza.

Papa John's seems to be running John's out of business.