The Godfather

The godfather is so much about the italian american imigrant experience, and this is just something that it never occurred to me to even wonder about. i would guess that in 19 72 people were a lot less scared of italians than they were in 19 forty two. I think there was a more porous relationship that America had with most eastern european countries. And there is also the sense that if you come over from another country like Italy or russia then your life may not be very good for many years. But one of the things they talked about was that different rates of return for different immigrant populations. So for example, russians who emigrated to US stayed