Jason Voorhees
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Italian immigrants came to the U.S. in the 1800s. Most of the ones that came to the US were poor farmers. Struggling to survive they turned to a life of crime with Lucky Luciano starting the first organized crime organization in the US. By the Great Depression, gangsters like Al Capone and Stefano has massive operations in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York etc dealing in bootlegging, extortion, and hits and had become very powerful. By this time the Italains had gained a reputation of being uncivilized, violent and criminal.
They had similar reputation to blacks. Everyone hated them. Thr Italain Mafia came to an end with Hoover’s FBI crackdown and wire tappings, the mobsters were hunted down and killed one by one in a series of brutal assassinations by the FBI and by the 1950s the Italian Mafia had lost all its power. They shifted to smaller crimes like tax fraud , money laundering, gambling etc. Most Italians moved into regular jobs no body wanted to hire them so they started opening pizzerias or working in blue-collar jobs, but the stereotypes seemed to have stuck around atleast until the 1990s. Do people still hate guidos in burgerland even after a century?
They had similar reputation to blacks. Everyone hated them. Thr Italain Mafia came to an end with Hoover’s FBI crackdown and wire tappings, the mobsters were hunted down and killed one by one in a series of brutal assassinations by the FBI and by the 1950s the Italian Mafia had lost all its power. They shifted to smaller crimes like tax fraud , money laundering, gambling etc. Most Italians moved into regular jobs no body wanted to hire them so they started opening pizzerias or working in blue-collar jobs, but the stereotypes seemed to have stuck around atleast until the 1990s. Do people still hate guidos in burgerland even after a century?
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