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military personnel at the
local Air Force Base, Las
Vegas has more security/
police personnel than almost any city in the world.
That’s why one can walk
down the street at 4:00 in
the morning, with $2,000
cash in his pocket and not
be worried about being
mugged.
What’s the actual presence of the Italians in Las Vegas and in Nevada?
It is very common for Italian Americans to believe that there are only two
types of people in the world: Italians and those who
wish they were Italian.
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www.wetheitalians.com
There are Italian Americans in every position in
the State; the Attorney
General, Adam Laxalt
(who father is former US
Senator Pietro Vici Domenici) has Italian heritage.
Las Vegas offers opportunity to people with skills, risk takers and hard
workers --positions that
Italian Americans are well
adapted to because they
had parents and grandparents who left Italy for
exactly the same reasons
(and they grew up hearing
stories about leaving the
homeland for opportunity
and success if one was just
willing to work hard enou-
gh for it).
Las Vegas is an ideal
city for people (i.e. Italian Americans) who are
committed to exceeding
expectations. And we believe that the commitment
to exceed expectations is
one of the factors that sets
Italian Americans apart
from others: while others
do a job until it is good
enough, Italian Americans
do it until they are proud
of the results and believe
that others will be equally
proud.
With only about 2,000,000
permanent residents, Italian Americans here know
who the other Italian Americans are. Las Vegas has
other strong ethnic and
religious groups, such as
Chinese, Filipino, Hispanic, Jewish, Mormon. Italian Americans uniquely
cover the entire spectrum
of employment (though,
unlike Filipino, Hispanic
and blacks, it is not easy
to find a large number of
unskilled Italian American
workers). One will find a
large percentage of Italian American who are
lawyers, doctors, architects, judges, accountants,
executives, artists entertai-