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BigTTYGothGF • today at 2:15 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Wasn't too long ago people in the US were saying those kinds of things about Italians.


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saithound • today at 2:32 AM

Yeah, we remember. And thanks to the attitude displayed in your comment, these complaints were not taken seriously. until these specific Italians ended up with control of massive illegitimate industries, gambling, and loan sharking, ran protection rackets that victimised and intimidated thousands of legitimate small businesses, and murdered hundreds of innocents.

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linksnapzz • today at 3:14 AM

..and in the case of some of those Italians, they were absolutely right.

High-trust Anglo civilization is not compatible with the attitude towards civil authority common in the 19th-century Mezzogiorno. It took literal generations to fix.

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