Influenced by various mafia movies such as The Godfather, as well as Al Capone, The Five Families and other mafia legends, it is easy to give people the illusion that Italians are easy to mix in the United States.
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But the reality is exactly the opposite.
For a long time in the United States, the most unpopular white ethnic group was the Italians, not the Irish as many people thought.
In almost all gangster movies, the gangsters are basically set to be of Italian origin, which in itself is a form of discrimination.
In addition, in the movie "Green Book", the police refer to the Italian protagonist as half black, which also well illustrates the embarrassing situation of Italians in the United States at that time - half black, this American of Anglo-Saxon descent
White people's disparaging names for Italians followed Italians for nearly a century from the 19th to the mid-20th century.
So why do immigrants in Italy, once the cultural center of Europe, encounter such a dilemma?
The reason is simple. Most Italians who immigrate to the United States come from southern Italy.
Just like the United States is divided into North and South, Italy is also divided into North and South.
Northern Italy has developed industry and commerce, so it is relatively wealthy. In contrast, the south is more mountainous and has fewer resources, so it is basically poorer.
If wealthy Italians in the north want to immigrate, they are unlikely to choose the United States, but South America.
Because the Italian immigration wave was later than other European countries, the resource allocation of various ethnic groups in the United States had basically been finalized at that time. Therefore, wealthy Italians would rather choose the broader South America for development, hire indigenous people and black people to open up the land, and become their own
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In contrast, poor Italians have no capital, so they will choose to go to rich North America to work for already developed Americans.
In other words, the Italians who come to the United States are poor people with very low levels of education.
In addition, as southern Europeans, the ancestry of Italians is relatively close to Latin, and the differences in appearance are obvious.
In addition, Italians like to live in groups, are industrial workers, like to live in groups, have low-level attributes, and have low education levels. When these attributes are combined, it is naturally easy for people to have bad associations.
At the same time, it also caused Italians to be able to do some of the lowest jobs in the United States for a long time and were unable to contact the upper class society.
The same thing that happened to the Italians was Chinatown next door.
Especially during the period of President Coolidge, the 1924 Immigration Act was specifically targeted at Italians.
This bill is not well-known, but its impact on Italian immigrants is actually no less than the "Chinese Exclusion Act" on the Chinese.
This naturally caused dissatisfaction among a large number of Italians.
what to do?
Obviously, he is a gangster.
Italy's original mafia system was relatively similar, but it was copied to the United States, and the results were surprisingly good. In addition to the original discrimination, Italians have since added a gangster attribute. While they are feared, they are even more ostracized.
It is also under the influence of this reputation that Josie naturally feels a sense of fear towards the Little Italy neighborhood.
However, after much hesitation, Qiao Xi decided to go in.
After all, the car he bought at noon was stolen in the afternoon. He had never been so aggrieved in his previous life.
But before entering Little Italy, Josie lifted up his collar, covered his face, and then walked into a gun store across the street.
Well, there are many gun stores, which is quite convenient sometimes.
To enter the prestigious Italian District, Josie felt that just having an M1911 was definitely not enough. He also had to have two Thompsons and a shotgun.
Although he is a time traveler and has never been a soldier in his previous life, Qiao Xi can use a gun.
Whether it was a submachine gun, an automatic rifle, a bolt-action rifle, or a shotgun, when Josie traveled to Mao Xiong in her previous life, she had been exposed to them in shooting clubs, and had also hunted in the Far East, for which she spent a lot of money.
Not only in his previous life, but also in his previous life, before his father passed away, Josie's predecessor had also been taken hunting, with only a rifle.
So I can't say I'm proficient in guns, but I can at least use them.
Soon, Josie picked out the Mafia's favorite Chicago typewriter, the Thomson, in the gun store. In addition, there was an M1918 Browning automatic rifle, a shotgun and the corresponding bullets.
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Comes with gun case.
Cost Josie nearly two hundred dollars.
After buying the gun, carry the gun case into a deserted alley, assemble and load the firearm, and then put it together with the gun case into the system warehouse.
After doing all this, Qiao Xi walked into the Italian area unhurriedly.
Perhaps because of the broad daylight, although the streets in the Italian Quarter looked a little dirty and smelled of sewage, there were actually no idle gangsters on the streets, and they were quite different from the black neighborhoods of later generations.
Although there are many Italians who are involved in gangs, like the Chinatown next door, there are more people at the bottom who work hard and hard, and most of them are actually busy making a living during the day.
It only seems more chaotic at night.
So Qiao Xi's preparations along the way were of no use at all.
However, after patrolling two streets, Qiao Xi couldn't find the car and couldn't help but feel a little discouraged. It seemed that the other car was just passing through the Italian Quarter.
However, just when Josie was about to give up, he suddenly saw the door of an old warehouse in the distance, with half of the car's butt exposed.
Qiao Xi looked around to make sure no one was paying attention, and then walked towards the warehouse.
As the distance got closer, he could see the entire rear of the car clearly, and the conspicuous scratch was clearly visible on it.
At this time, he also heard conversations coming from the old warehouse.
"Listen, Joe, this is just an old Ford from more than ten years ago. Even if it is put on the second-hand market, it will only sell for two hundred at most. I still have to deal with the joints, so the most I can do is follow the price of old parts.
The price is fifty, if you are not satisfied, go find someone else!" said a slightly hoarse voice with a strong Italian accent.
"Don't be like this, Mike, you should know how difficult it is to do this job recently. How about giving me a little more, ten yuan, just ten yuan?" said another slightly oily voice.
Carefully approaching the warehouse, Qiao Xi could easily see what was going on inside.
There were two people inside, one was a middle-aged man with Mediterranean hair and covered in engine oil stains, and the other was a young man with a slightly fat body and short height.
It can be easily judged from their conversation that the young man is a car thief, while the middle-aged man specializes in selling stolen cars and collecting illegal cars.
The various car parts placed everywhere in this warehouse also indicate that this is a black car trading factory.
Besides his old Ford, there was another car parked.