Thursday, July 27, 2006
Organizations like Yakuza
Italy has the La Cosa Nostra.
America has the Mafia.
The Irish and Jews have their own crime organizations in America.
Southeast Asia has the Triads.
China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have the Tong.
 
posted by necromanc at 2:44 PM | Permalink |


2 Comments:


At 3:01 PM, Blogger fred

You are confused a lot
in italy there
"Cosa nostra " in sicily
"camorra" in naples
"sacra corona unita" in puglia
"Ndrangheta" in calabria
etc etc
The word Mafia define all kind of italian criminal organizations and the word was imported in US like others italian word like pizza, spaghetti, lasagna etc etc
see ( in italian )
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia

 

At 2:22 AM, Blogger Ramón_Lozano

In fact "Mafia" is the real name of Sicilian mafia, also kwnown as Cosa Nostra. But Cosa Nostra is how mafia was called in America in 1920's

 
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