@@benmorris Thanks for noticing me been watching your vids for about 2 years now! Really love the vibes, music and editing transitions you do in your vids! Your vids are so relaxing yet informative.
@@benmorris for sure this added value will result to added views/subscribers too! Keep it up, Ben! Hope you also get to visit the Philippines some day!
"I spent three days on the island, and never sensed a mafia presence." I seriously doubt that they're going around advertising who they are to every tourist that strolls around.
exactly lol My family is from there, and there is actually a lot of mafia. It's more subtle than what you imagine. Also this title is so click baity i hate it.
A mafioso nowadays can be a politician, an entrepreneur, a doctor, a lawyer or your next door neighbour... It's more subtle nowadays because those days when they wanted to be talked about, are long time gone.
at the day of today mafia in italy is very different, it's all over in italy and it's also mixed with italian government so basically we pay ton of taxe's but money disappears from governement
I glad that the people of Sicily stood up for themselves their families and their brothers and sisters this isn’t a battle going to be won so easily just like many in the past with more understanding and education the better for everyone ❤🇮🇹
Ben your videos have got me through some hard times in life. I look forward to seeing them it’s like life is better when you upload. Please never stop.
My friend from Liverpool in the UK, was a Optician and worked in Palermo on 2 or 3 occasions. He said he didn’t know how the owner of the Opticians, made any money, every other customer was a man of respect and no charge. The customers that actually paid, must have been paying for all the customers that didn’t.
Thank youuu for the video, sicily had been on my list for 3/4 years! I travelled nearly all of Italy and fell in love with it, one of my fav countries !❤
You could very easily make a platform game based on this video. You play as Ben running form the mafia who are chasing him. All you'd need from Ben is some hit sounds e.g. ouch, ooch, ow etc for when he takes damage. Maybe a few eek for when he's captured. The video thumbnail would be a great main menu background. Simple!!!!
From the title I expected a low quality video essay about the usual stuff that’s said online about the mafia in Sicily. I was very pleasantly surprised, special thanks for giving Addiopizzo a spotlight.
I dont know how I found your channel, but I've seen so many of your videos over the past couple months, and the content just keeps getting better. Big ups!
Wow, always amazes me to know people are watching me from all around the world, I'd love to visit Iran one day and make a video! Thanks for supporting ❤
As a foreigner is probably very difficult to understand all the facts surrounding the Italian mafia (we still don't know lots of things) but I'm glad you were able to go beyond the fiction of The God Father, Goodfellas etc. Amazing movies but most of the time tend to portray an image that is simply not true and sometimes create a fascination about the mafia. If you want to come a lil bit closer to the reality, I'd suggest "one hundred steps" which is a true and really sad story (+with original audio is crazy good).
Love Sicily and just came back from Palermo. Absoulutely beautiful and it was my second visit. The last visit was to Siracusa. You don't really feel any criminal vibe as a tourist, and you can go anywhere freely and feel safe. I feel more of a mob presence here in NJ/NY LOL. In my opinion, they get their money in more discreet ways and don't need little tiny businesses to make their money anymore.
I didn't feel any weird presence there either if I'm honest.. obviously with it being my main intention to find out more and filming did it make me a bit concerned but everyone was so friendly!
nice reportage, man. I was raised in Northern Italy and I'm enjoying seeing Italy from the angle of a open mind foreigner like you. Hope you tried some cannoli too!
I love your work! Any chance you could make some longer, less hurried videos? I'm so interested in what you have to say and you travel to so many amazing places but it's so rushed that I always feel left hanging.
If you find the topic of mafia interesting, I strongly suggest you to watch some interviews with an italian writer and mafia expert Roberto Saviano. I don't know how many English videos about him are online, but if you manage to find one, you'll learn a lot about mafia.
Just discovered your channel; your videos are insanely high-quality, and if you ever need a tour around Dubai, let me know. I would love to help! Keep up all the good work; your content is very inspiring, and this is day 1 of commenting until we film a vlog together 💯
@@benmorris Ayyyy, anytime man. I've lived in Dubai for 16 years, so I know the place pretty well. So, seriously, man, whatever you need, brotha, I would love to help.
BTW, Italy has one of the lowest crime rates in the world,... the homicide rate is tied for the 3rd LOWEST in Europe, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, Norway tied with Italy. Latvia the highest is 7.5X more.
Never mentioned...Yakuza from Japan were formed nearly 300 years before the Sicilian...so Sicily did NOT "invent" the mafia. Virtually every country has one, or syndicates or gangs which are a form of mafia, some have all 3.
Those movies are so inaccurate as to how the Italian mafia is today!. Just a note having been involved in that lifestyle for 7+ years and I left it all just 12 months ago I cannot understand why you would want to walk into it all, start questioning them because they do NOT like people poking around asking questions and honestly that is a VERY dangerous game to play! A journalist got attacked in Roma a few years ago for questioning a mafia boss's friend! Having spent a lot of time in Napoli and Palermo the difference is incredible and having been involved it keeps me on my toes! PLEASE do not go poking around this stuff Ben! I know you mean well but when I say it's NOTHING like the movies and it's an EXTREMELY dangerous lifestyle I mean it! I am happy to share my story if you want to hear it but I do NOT recommend people doing the same thing Ben is doing!
I once got on the wrong side of Giuseppe Cacello’s mother! Wouldn’t recommend google reviewing these restaurants in the south - got a stern talking to and i narrowly dodged an arancini ball to the face. Ended up bribing my way out by offering to sing a beautiful rendition of andrea bocellis “con te partiro”. Goose bumps they all said. 😅
I heard such different views from different people, I did genuinely fear walking around talking about it and made sure to be careful when asking the locals I met up with! You never know who someone can be or who they know.. Thanks for the advice though - I could be super interested to hear your story if you wouldn't mind giving me a message on Instagram @benmorris with more details
I half Sicilian and visited the island with my dad countless times. This comment is bullshit, it’s completely okay to ask about the mafia, nobody cares to be honest if you are a stupid tourist.
Just went to Rome. Met a person who knows a ton about how mafia operates in Italy. Looking forward to this video. I have to say, you never miss. Instant click when I see you post anything 🫡
the Mafia was created by the Arberesh community in Sicily search the Arberesh people they have towns and cities of their owns in palermo calabria etc very interesting people
I thought I'd ask here, as I suppose people watching Ben's content enjoy traveling. I am going to Brazil for New Year's, is SimLocal or Airlo better for Esims?
its not. i am from sicily, there is no mafia. so stop this misinformation. my sicily is so pretty, safe.this woman doing this is doing it for job. lying stuff
If it's anything like organised crime (the half they let anyone see) where I'm from: you run a pub, strong suggestion you should hire their daughter, now if bs happens you know who to call. Had an engagement on and got free professional security. etc
wtf? i tought stereotypes about sicily were gone…😂 mafia was mainly eradicated after the eu got scared its image would be ruined after the attacks in the 90’s and 2000’s
Omerta is meaningless for people who aren't in the Mafia. The code of silence only applied to members, not your average person. As far as I know anyway.
Life hack: to eat for free in Sicily, pretend to care to learn about the mafia, get invited to people's homes for lunch, or to various bars for breakfast. Info learnt 0... kg gained 10 😂
I hate Hollywood movies who romanticised the italian organized crime. If you see italian movies about this topic the point of view is always from the people who fight the crime. i suggest you " I cento passi" very beautiful about Peppino Impastato a boy that in the 70s tried fight mafia and his own family, or " Palermo - Milano solo andata" a story about a witness that had to be escorted from Palermo to Milan. Someone already soggested you to see Roberto Saviano interwiews or books and movies but he talks more about Naples Camorra. You can ook dornthe stories of Falcone and Borsellino two magistrates whi were killed in the 90', or Aldo Moro anothe polician who tries tonfight mafia and being killed. Those are national Heros who tries to make a better world. Please dont continue romanticize mafia thanks - An Italian
"Island run by the mafia", such a stupid and offensive title, and I'm not even Sicilian. Why put such a title in the thumbnail if yourself weren't able to confirm the Godfather stereotypes about mafia? I know you need to find something for your content, but if you studied a little bit you would know the sicilian mafia, despite not being entirely eradicated, is a fraction of what it used to be, thanks to many arrests and trials from the 90s. So sick of these videos romanticizing mafia.
Unfortunately the stereotype predominately related to sicily is the mafia so people are more likely going to click the video and if they watched the whole video they would of learnt that the island is much more. Same way i used to get annoyed when people would say "visiting the most dangerous hood in Africa" instead of mentioning the actually countries name.
It's a marketing title, catchy etc. and maybe if Italians overall would actually step up and do something about the mafia in their Country, instead of being busy eating Pasta and Pizza without Ananas, perhaps it would be more attractive to invest time in the country.
Used to live in Calabria as an english teacher in a small town and I highly suspect my bosses were Calabrian Mafia... having a lawyer and an accountant and still managed to not pay taxes for me, lie about contracts and illeaglly pay cash in hand.. They also knew that I taught a kid who's family was mafia. I once had to tell a kid off because he accused someone in his class of being mafia, they were 8 years old. We had to have a code word that we'd use when we saw someone who we thought was mafia.
its not. i am from sicily, there is no mafia. so stop this misinformation. my sicily is so pretty, safe.this woman doing this is doing it for job. lying stuff
So tired of videos on the Mafia. Take a cold shower, and visit the history, appreciate the culture, and eat like a king, but please stop this insanity.
Typical stereotypical view from a British point of view...full of fictional description and folklore. Mafia (unfortunately) still exists, although it should be correctly called organised crime (which has different flavours in different parts of the world - you could argue that the British Cayman Islands system of money islands is also an organised form of crime), but it is nothing like this freshly combed dude is depicting.
I...struggled with Sicily. Spent three weeks there exploring the island last year and felt like my expectations just didn't match the reality. It is properly filthy (particularly Palermo), including in the water where you regularly emerge with plastic stuck to your limbs. The people seemed broadly nice but we had a lot of 'moderately dodgy' experiences that I haven't experienced anywhere else when traveling. We found much better comparable experiences in Puglia. I guess that's part of travel, and it is a matter of taking a place for what it is. But when people describe it as beautiful, I feel the need to get their head examined. I hope they sort out their Mafia infestation, I think despite its influence now being so diminished, it has had a pretty negative impact on the island overall.
Did we visit the same place? Haha. If I wasn't just there and in 2021, I'd believe you. Old cities, but not filthy at all. I've spent time in Palermo, down to Siracusa. I even went to the beaches. As a woman alone, I felt 100% safe. You are imagining stuff. Maybe Naples, I'd believe you. Some areas are raw there
@@TiemposDePaz Maybe we got unlucky, maybe you got lucky? Admittedly Syracuse was quite lovely, I'll happily exclude that. I may have chalked it up to unreasonable expectations, but then we went to Greece this year and the comparisons were obvious. It was much cleaner, much (much!) friendlier, and I never felt uncomfortable anywhere, even on the small local islands with minimal tourism. Heck, even Bosnia was cleaner. Sicily did remind me a lot of Naples, but I....preferred Naples.
So pathetic. Your comments say a lot about your highly enriched cultural background. 3000 years of rich history, which NO OTHER ISLAND in the world possesses, and you come up with immature comment. Being deaf and blind is no excuse!
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"Never speak of the mafia."
*Proceeds to make a whole ass youtube video out of them.*
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@@benmorris Thanks for noticing me been watching your vids for about 2 years now! Really love the vibes, music and editing transitions you do in your vids! Your vids are so relaxing yet informative.
Love the evolution of your vlogs. Thank you Ben for using it now as a platform to educate. Cool yet powerful. Cheers from the Philippines!
I'm trying to add some value to my videos instead of casual vlogs!! Really enjoying learning more about the world myself too
@@benmorris for sure this added value will result to added views/subscribers too! Keep it up, Ben! Hope you also get to visit the Philippines some day!
"I spent three days on the island, and never sensed a mafia presence."
I seriously doubt that they're going around advertising who they are to every tourist that strolls around.
exactly lol My family is from there, and there is actually a lot of mafia. It's more subtle than what you imagine. Also this title is so click baity i hate it.
A mafioso nowadays can be a politician, an entrepreneur, a doctor, a lawyer or your next door neighbour... It's more subtle nowadays because those days when they wanted to be talked about, are long time gone.
Buy a shop.😂
Actualy, that's what they want. To be invisible. They are very wise. And stronger then ever.
at the day of today mafia in italy is very different, it's all over in italy and it's also mixed with italian government so basically we pay ton of taxe's but money disappears from governement
I glad that the people of Sicily stood up for themselves their families and their brothers and sisters this isn’t a battle going to be won so easily just like many in the past with more understanding and education the better for everyone ❤🇮🇹
Travelled nearly all of Italy but haven't reached Sicily yet. Always been on my list now I know I need to go. Great video as usual.
Cheers John! Glad you enjoyed
Ben your videos have got me through some hard times in life. I look forward to seeing them it’s like life is better when you upload. Please never stop.
Stay strong, I hope you’re doing better
@ cheers buddy, that’s very thoughtful of you to say.
The quality of these videos is top tier Ben!
🙏🏼
As a Sicilian, the mafia isn’t really a thing anymore and it’s less common as they’re either in prison, dead or in America.
When I went to Sicily there was still plenty of shop windows smashed up coz they wouldn’t of paid their monthly money to the mafia or whatever
You’re a tourist not Italian by any form soooo
@@ashleylemushernandez8220 never said I was 🤣
What? This is why people shouldn't believe everything they read on the internet. The mafia is still a major problem in Sicily... MAJOR PROBLEM...
@@babyyoda1489 yes I know but it’s wayyy less common bc most of them moved to America over the years and do business in both
My friend from Liverpool in the UK, was a Optician and worked in Palermo on 2 or 3 occasions.
He said he didn’t know how the owner of the Opticians, made any money, every other customer was a man of respect and no charge.
The customers that actually paid, must have been paying for all the customers that didn’t.
He and all those other "customers" were definitely Mafia 😂
Thank youuu for the video, sicily had been on my list for 3/4 years! I travelled nearly all of Italy and fell in love with it, one of my fav countries !❤
Sicily was amazing! I absolutely loved how rugged & authentic it seemed.. and the food was amazing too
as an italian, sicily for me is the best region in italy. definitely visit: Palermo, Siracusa, Ortigia, Taormina, Agrigento
I’ve never been this fast❕Love the abundance of contents from you these days
Appreciate the speed ⏱️
You could very easily make a platform game based on this video. You play as Ben running form the mafia who are chasing him. All you'd need from Ben is some hit sounds e.g. ouch, ooch, ow etc for when he takes damage. Maybe a few eek for when he's captured. The video thumbnail would be a great main menu background. Simple!!!!
From the title I expected a low quality video essay about the usual stuff that’s said online about the mafia in Sicily.
I was very pleasantly surprised, special thanks for giving Addiopizzo a spotlight.
I dont know how I found your channel, but I've seen so many of your videos over the past couple months, and the content just keeps getting better. Big ups!
Cheers from Iran mate. Been watching your videos for a long time , love the new style. Keep going👏🏻
Wow, always amazes me to know people are watching me from all around the world, I'd love to visit Iran one day and make a video! Thanks for supporting ❤
I’m so excited every time I see a new video from you! thank you for the fun and educating content
As a foreigner is probably very difficult to understand all the facts surrounding the Italian mafia (we still don't know lots of things) but I'm glad you were able to go beyond the fiction of The God Father, Goodfellas etc.
Amazing movies but most of the time tend to portray an image that is simply not true and sometimes create a fascination about the mafia.
If you want to come a lil bit closer to the reality, I'd suggest "one hundred steps" which is a true and really sad story (+with original audio is crazy good).
love these documentary style videos mate keep it up :)
Thanks Leo!! Trying to evolve the content a bit, glad to hear you like it
@@benmorris you're smashing it matey 👍
I miss Sicily. Such a beautiful country. ❤ your channel
the best 🇮🇹
Sicily is not a country, it's a region of Italy.
I love your content! It's quite educational and you're my current favorite TH-camr! Thanks for producing high quality interesting content
Thank you Dara!! Really appreciate the comment
Love Sicily and just came back from Palermo. Absoulutely beautiful and it was my second visit. The last visit was to Siracusa. You don't really feel any criminal vibe as a tourist, and you can go anywhere freely and feel safe. I feel more of a mob presence here in NJ/NY LOL. In my opinion, they get their money in more discreet ways and don't need little tiny businesses to make their money anymore.
I didn't feel any weird presence there either if I'm honest.. obviously with it being my main intention to find out more and filming did it make me a bit concerned but everyone was so friendly!
Keep up the good work Ben. This is next level vlogging!
Loving these regular uploads!!
Always happy when Ben posts 🎉
That makes me so happy
nice reportage, man. I was raised in Northern Italy and I'm enjoying seeing Italy from the angle of a open mind foreigner like you. Hope you tried some cannoli too!
we love consistent Ben vlogs :)
What extent…olive oil, olives, pasta, tomato sauce…all food exports/imports throughout the Mediterranean.
Love your videos pls don’t stop making videos
I love your work! Any chance you could make some longer, less hurried videos? I'm so interested in what you have to say and you travel to so many amazing places but it's so rushed that I always feel left hanging.
Definitely will take that onboard! Thanks for the suggestion
Brilliant investigative geography 👍🏼
If you find the topic of mafia interesting, I strongly suggest you to watch some interviews with an italian writer and mafia expert Roberto Saviano. I don't know how many English videos about him are online, but if you manage to find one, you'll learn a lot about mafia.
Will do, such an interesting topic
Just discovered your channel; your videos are insanely high-quality, and if you ever need a tour around Dubai, let me know. I would love to help! Keep up all the good work; your content is very inspiring, and this is day 1 of commenting until we film a vlog together 💯
Thank you bro!! Hopefully will make another video in Dubai at some point
Sure you didn’t write this comment Ben? 👆🏻😂
@@benmorris Ayyyy, anytime man. I've lived in Dubai for 16 years, so I know the place pretty well. So, seriously, man, whatever you need, brotha, I would love to help.
@@Dave-zn3gf na bro, he didn't 😂I'm a real person trust me
@@benmorrismake sure you film the dark side with all the sex trafficking🙂
in italy politicians made a contract with mafia years ago.... very sus.... cheers from Italy
One of your best ones yet. Great job.
Glad to hear it! Quality content is the goal
One of your best Ben
Means a lot 🙏🏼
"The Godfather" book Ben, not the movie, it came afterwards. 😃 Thank you for the interesting vlog! 😍
thanks for making such great videos, love from Ireland!
thank you for watching!! 🇮🇪💚
New Subscriber here really enjoyed your calm narrative of the video... good work keep it up ❤😊
so glad he remembered his youtube password again. top tier quality videos!
Hahahahahah not forgetting it anytime soon 🤣
Ben I'm loving your consistency,, and great quality❤ lets goooo!
Finally feel like I've got some momentum and plan to keep up the regular uploads
I love your documentary content!
💪🏼
Very nice vlog, Ben! Thanks!
Thanks for watching!!!
Been there, very unique place
BTW, Italy has one of the lowest crime rates in the world,... the homicide rate is tied for the 3rd LOWEST in Europe, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, Norway tied with Italy. Latvia the highest is 7.5X more.
keep the videos coming mate
Ben is 100% something like 70% italian. He looks like he fit in there. Bet his ancestors were roman soldiers occupying britain. 😄
Pls go to Hersonissos in Crete Greece. Its a crazy party city I'd love to see you talk about it
i have always wanted to go to sicily, this video is so interesting!
It's an amazing place - I would love to go back and spend more time there
Never mentioned...Yakuza from Japan were formed nearly 300 years before the Sicilian...so Sicily did NOT "invent" the mafia.
Virtually every country has one, or syndicates or gangs which are a form of mafia, some have all 3.
Yakuza isn't mafia
Those movies are so inaccurate as to how the Italian mafia is today!. Just a note having been involved in that lifestyle for 7+ years and I left it all just 12 months ago I cannot understand why you would want to walk into it all, start questioning them because they do NOT like people poking around asking questions and honestly that is a VERY dangerous game to play! A journalist got attacked in Roma a few years ago for questioning a mafia boss's friend! Having spent a lot of time in Napoli and Palermo the difference is incredible and having been involved it keeps me on my toes! PLEASE do not go poking around this stuff Ben! I know you mean well but when I say it's NOTHING like the movies and it's an EXTREMELY dangerous lifestyle I mean it! I am happy to share my story if you want to hear it but I do NOT recommend people doing the same thing Ben is doing!
I once got on the wrong side of Giuseppe Cacello’s mother! Wouldn’t recommend google reviewing these restaurants in the south - got a stern talking to and i narrowly dodged an arancini ball to the face. Ended up bribing my way out by offering to sing a beautiful rendition of andrea bocellis “con te partiro”. Goose bumps they all said. 😅
I heard such different views from different people, I did genuinely fear walking around talking about it and made sure to be careful when asking the locals I met up with! You never know who someone can be or who they know.. Thanks for the advice though - I could be super interested to hear your story if you wouldn't mind giving me a message on Instagram @benmorris with more details
I half Sicilian and visited the island with my dad countless times. This comment is bullshit, it’s completely okay to ask about the mafia, nobody cares to be honest if you are a stupid tourist.
This guy don't miss
Through out the whole video I kept saying to myself this guy reminds me of Ezio Auditore lol
Just went to Rome. Met a person who knows a ton about how mafia operates in Italy. Looking forward to this video. I have to say, you never miss. Instant click when I see you post anything 🫡
visit vienna, the most liveable city in the world! :D
the Mafia was created by the Arberesh community in Sicily search the Arberesh people they have towns and cities of their owns in palermo calabria etc very interesting people
I feel like this would be like going to Northern Island and asking about the IRA?
Salvotore giuliano actually hated the mafia and they hated him , the massacre was nothing to do with the mafia
the king posted!! :) hope you stay consistent ah 😅
Got 2 more videos filmed & edited and filming another this weekend so I'm not going anywhere anytime soon 🤞🏻
@@benmorris ohhhh… that excellent!! im so impatient waiting for another videos😭
So entertaining. Amazing video
I thought I'd ask here, as I suppose people watching Ben's content enjoy traveling. I am going to Brazil for New Year's, is SimLocal or Airlo better for Esims?
U surely r a brave person
Brave? The Mafia doesn't care about youtubers or turists.
its not. i am from sicily, there is no mafia. so stop this misinformation. my sicily is so pretty, safe.this woman doing this is doing it for job. lying stuff
@@Joeythegoats k lol 😂🤣
Sicily may still have the Mafia, but crime is lower than most other places.
Love to see Morris on the notifs more often 🙌🏻
Get used to it!
@@benmorris i hope ahaha
I love the content🤌🤌
Thank you!!
I think we are in a Movie in the beginning
Italian Police seeing this video: 🤨
🥸🥸🥸
These people real think the mob will come to tourists and introduce themselves 😂 bruuh
Well done 👏
If it's anything like organised crime (the half they let anyone see) where I'm from: you run a pub, strong suggestion you should hire their daughter, now if bs happens you know who to call. Had an engagement on and got free professional security. etc
My brother side of the family is part of the mafia, that’s say he is person for trying to keep it in the family
So much litter and graffiti, what happened to Italy? It used to be elegant
👍Sicily 🇮🇹 🧡🖤
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wtf? i tought stereotypes about sicily were gone…😂 mafia was mainly eradicated after the eu got scared its image would be ruined after the attacks in the 90’s and 2000’s
Omerta is meaningless for people who aren't in the Mafia. The code of silence only applied to members, not your average person. As far as I know anyway.
Life hack: to eat for free in Sicily, pretend to care to learn about the mafia, get invited to people's homes for lunch, or to various bars for breakfast. Info learnt 0... kg gained 10 😂
I hate Hollywood movies who romanticised the italian organized crime. If you see italian movies about this topic the point of view is always from the people who fight the crime. i suggest you " I cento passi" very beautiful about Peppino Impastato a boy that in the 70s tried fight mafia and his own family, or " Palermo - Milano solo andata" a story about a witness that had to be escorted from Palermo to Milan. Someone already soggested you to see Roberto Saviano interwiews or books and movies but he talks more about Naples Camorra. You can ook dornthe stories of Falcone and Borsellino two magistrates whi were killed in the 90', or Aldo Moro anothe polician who tries tonfight mafia and being killed. Those are national Heros who tries to make a better world. Please dont continue romanticize mafia thanks - An Italian
"Island run by the mafia", such a stupid and offensive title, and I'm not even Sicilian. Why put such a title in the thumbnail if yourself weren't able to confirm the Godfather stereotypes about mafia?
I know you need to find something for your content, but if you studied a little bit you would know the sicilian mafia, despite not being entirely eradicated, is a fraction of what it used to be, thanks to many arrests and trials from the 90s.
So sick of these videos romanticizing mafia.
Unfortunately the stereotype predominately related to sicily is the mafia so people are more likely going to click the video and if they watched the whole video they would of learnt that the island is much more. Same way i used to get annoyed when people would say "visiting the most dangerous hood in Africa" instead of mentioning the actually countries name.
It's a marketing title, catchy etc. and maybe if Italians overall would actually step up and do something about the mafia in their Country, instead of being busy eating Pasta and Pizza without Ananas, perhaps it would be more attractive to invest time in the country.
The Mafia is in Italy, La Cosa Nostra is only in America.
Ben Morris isn't suicidal
Definitely not
Hi ben morris do you need thumbnail designer at cheap rates?
Used to live in Calabria as an english teacher in a small town and I highly suspect my bosses were Calabrian Mafia... having a lawyer and an accountant and still managed to not pay taxes for me, lie about contracts and illeaglly pay cash in hand.. They also knew that I taught a kid who's family was mafia. I once had to tell a kid off because he accused someone in his class of being mafia, they were 8 years old. We had to have a code word that we'd use when we saw someone who we thought was mafia.
That's so interesting!! You never know who someone might be
Wake up babe Ben Morris just posted a video
Who tf wakes up at this time?
So basically just the government.
its not. i am from sicily, there is no mafia. so stop this misinformation. my sicily is so pretty, safe.this woman doing this is doing it for job. lying stuff
Lol - NOT run by the Mafia - ahahaahahaha - this title is absurd!
yeah, absurd
So tired of videos on the Mafia. Take a cold shower, and visit the history, appreciate the culture, and eat like a king, but please stop this insanity.
India has 1.2 billion people who would like to watch this video in Hindi language , i would like to do that
JAAAAA BIG LOVE
1Up at 1:32
Sono siciliano,fatti un giro anche in Calabria
meglio che non ci vada........
Your guide was the mafia! not in plain sight ffs
interesting...
Typical stereotypical view from a British point of view...full of fictional description and folklore. Mafia (unfortunately) still exists, although it should be correctly called organised crime (which has different flavours in different parts of the world - you could argue that the British Cayman Islands system of money islands is also an organised form of crime), but it is nothing like this freshly combed dude is depicting.
I...struggled with Sicily. Spent three weeks there exploring the island last year and felt like my expectations just didn't match the reality. It is properly filthy (particularly Palermo), including in the water where you regularly emerge with plastic stuck to your limbs. The people seemed broadly nice but we had a lot of 'moderately dodgy' experiences that I haven't experienced anywhere else when traveling. We found much better comparable experiences in Puglia.
I guess that's part of travel, and it is a matter of taking a place for what it is. But when people describe it as beautiful, I feel the need to get their head examined.
I hope they sort out their Mafia infestation, I think despite its influence now being so diminished, it has had a pretty negative impact on the island overall.
Did we visit the same place? Haha. If I wasn't just there and in 2021, I'd believe you. Old cities, but not filthy at all. I've spent time in Palermo, down to Siracusa. I even went to the beaches. As a woman alone, I felt 100% safe. You are imagining stuff. Maybe Naples, I'd believe you. Some areas are raw there
@@TiemposDePaz Maybe we got unlucky, maybe you got lucky? Admittedly Syracuse was quite lovely, I'll happily exclude that. I may have chalked it up to unreasonable expectations, but then we went to Greece this year and the comparisons were obvious. It was much cleaner, much (much!) friendlier, and I never felt uncomfortable anywhere, even on the small local islands with minimal tourism.
Heck, even Bosnia was cleaner. Sicily did remind me a lot of Naples, but I....preferred Naples.
Italian beaches, including those near cities, are exceptionally clean and safe to visit even at night. Your speculation is typical of trolls.
So pathetic. Your comments say a lot about your highly enriched cultural background. 3000 years of rich history, which NO OTHER ISLAND in the world possesses, and you come up with immature comment. Being deaf and blind is no excuse!
This guy is in the wrong place!!!! Toto’ Riina territory capisc !!!!!
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