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Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel
Mostly it was that Italian organized crime, and the stereotypes that come with it, are not in the majority of organized crime in America.
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That's a completely different topic. What you learned in your course is only dispelling the myth that organized crime = Italians.
Regarding this topic, the scholars who acknowledge the existence of organized crime (not all do) tend to acknowledge that Italian organized crime has a distinct culture from other organized crime groupings. This culture is essentially Italian/Italian-America culture, but it takes on a stigma and exaggeration when it is associated with organized crime.
This is why it is offensive that in many movies and shows the Italians are playing organized crime roles or are loosely associated with it. People who don't know any better associate Italians/Italian culture with organized crime, period, because of this media saturation. I think the promoters on RH of NJ knew that when they did the commercials and preview show. They wanted to spark viewer curiosity.
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