Originally Posted by Hollander
Originally Posted by Revis_Island
Did the Italians take from the model that the Italian Americans had originally put in place?


The Americans were modern and businessmen, before that the Sicilians were just a bunch of peasants. But the Mafia is a Sicilian thing they had the structure already in the 1800s.


Right. I am talking about how the Americans were more business minded and then the Italians followed suit afterward.