I was asking if the sicilian mafia in Italy and the Cosa Nostra?

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I was asking if the sicilian mafia in Italy and the Cosa Nostra in USA have the ame or differencies in members like pouring their blood on a picture of a aint and burning it? do they have the same or diffrences of cermony during membership acceptance? how come there werent any reports about this on the sicilian counterparts?

Answer 1

i'm a lil confused about your question ..

There is only one Italian mob .. and they are all from Sicily. .so the mob that is here in the US are the same people from Sicily. .. perhaps they did not start that cermony until they reached .. or started living in the US

I have only read about the mob from the 1800's - the 1950s
I dont know anything about the mob after the 1950s-60s
.. the mob started to fall apart after Sammy the Bull and John Gotti .. in that i mean .. older traditions were not practiced/kept once Gotti became boss

Answer 2

@ Manini: As I understand it the Italian-American Mafia was based on the same idea as the Sicilian Mafia, but (unless it's changed with the communication technology) don't necessarily honor visiting members from America, while the Italian-American Mafia honors members of the Sicilian Mafia as representatives of the root of their organization.

The Italian-American Mafia still exists and operates in this country. They no longer make public displays the aggressive ruthlessness of the 1920s through the 1940s and into the '50s, but they have not become a part of our history with no modern referent. If what I've read in the press and seen on TV news is accurate, it would appear to me that the Sicilian Mafia is still very strong and quite rabid in most of Italy.

The only aspects of this information that can easily be verified are in the first paragraph and the first three sentences of the second. The rest is my opinion based on more than 65 years of personal observation.