There are some 5 million Sicilians, but the number of convicted Mafiosi stands at just 5,000. When people leave Sicily and go the Italian mainland, or England, or France they hear people say and point at them: "Sicilian... Mafioso." Generalization makes many Sicilians angry because the great majority of them are very honest and hospitable. And yet because of a few thousands good-for-nothing thugs the island is demonized.
The Mafia runs deep in Sicily. After all it's been around for a long time. The Mafia is a structure that developed in parallel to the Italian State 150 years ago. The cause of its development is that the Sicilian economy was mainly feudal. In those days there were huge estates which were the property of barons who lived on the Italian mainland and didn't even know the re...
Title: Documentary - The changing face of the Mafia
Published on Oct 8, 2013
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