Tuesday, May 26
Italy is a very young nation that was unified in 1861. In
order to have a nation they needed to have a dialect and army. In Italy they
had the dialect before the army, which usually it was the other way
around. Italians didn’t have a great
civic sense, and in the Roman law they believed that what was your was yours.
What was not strictly yours was the property of no one. In every city of Italy
they had a strong identity. I was shocked and surprised that Italy has the
highest unemployment rate in Europe. However what surprised me even more today
was after learning about the Italian Mafia because it is very similar to what
many families experience in my hometown in Mexico. In Italy the mafia started in the city of
Sicily with four different mafias. In my culture the difference was that it
didn’t really started in one place it was all spread out. All the different
drug cartels had there men working for their boss and they just get orders and
go do what they are told. In the Italian culture and in my culture the cartels
or the mafias maintain a secret they each did their own thing and it was
something pretty much that even though you may be seeing what is occurring your
better off not saying a thing otherwise you will be facing some severe
circumstances. Also the Mafia in Italy had
the mafia ten commandments and in a way could be somewhat compare to what the
United States has which is known as the Bill of Rights. These men got paid to
protect others and to follow orders, and many times made money from taxing
small and large business. If businesses disobey owners could pretty much end up
dead. This comparison between the Italian Mafia and the Mexican Drug Cartels
from my point of view is an observation I came across.
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