Belmont, if you've never met an Asian with children out of wedlock, you've clearly never been to the Red Hawk or Thunder Valley casinos outside of Sacramento.
I might recommend that you visit Fresno, Long Beach, or the San Gabriel Valley for more evidence of Asian ghettos. Oh, and how could I forget Garden Grove?
Your romanticized take on Italian-Americans sounds like Lilo Brancato's narration in A Bronx Tale. Fast forward to this century. Jersey Shore and Growing up Gotti. Real working class heroes.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
