Originally Posted by ShellyCrash

Eastern culture is very very different from western culture. You can't just take a communist system and flip it to caplitalism and expect business culture to easily assimilate. There is alot of shit going on over there right now, and has been for some time. The class divide and the crime seem pretty out of control and that's always a bad combo. I think if anything having a strong mafia / costa nostra over there would improve things, because that's not what they have now. Organized crime can in some ways be a blessing- it keeps small bands of disorganized theives and random thugs away from your business and away from your family.