History Main / GenericEthnicCrimeGang

-->''The only native american criminal class is politicians

* In ''MassEffect'', Ethinc Crime Gang seems to be [[PlanetOfHats the hat]] of the Vorcha. Pretty much all you ever get to meet seem to belong to street gangs.

* Played for laughs in ''MyBigFatGreekWedding''.

* The Breccia in ''{{Discworld}}'' are the [[OurTrollsAreDifferent Troll]] Mob. The name is something of a GeniusBonus, as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breccia breccia]] is a kind of rock made from fragments of smaller rocks cemented together.

* And still more Chechens appear in an episode of ''WhiteCollar'', where they [[EvenEvilHaveStandards prove to have standards]] when it comes to a protection racket involving the exploitation of [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes innocent Chechen children]].

These guys are usually involved with the [[TheMafia Italian Mafia]] and based on Bugsy Siegel or Meyer Lansky. Historically, the Jewish Mob was a dominant force in the brief period between when White America started seeing Irishmen as "white" and the rise of the more numerous Italian Mob.

Some uses of this trope can involve UnfortunateImplications, as xenophobic writers use it to associate close-knit immigrant communities with violence, prostitution, drugs and other threats to the values and morality of "normal", "integrated" society. See EvilForeigner, a trope from which this one descended.

The classier, more organized version of GangBangers. Compare with TheYardies, who are strictly British.

* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Rabbi]] and co in ''LuckyNumberSlevin''.

Some uses of this trope can involve UnfortunateImplications, as xenophobic writers use it to denote close-knit immigrant communities with violence, prostitution, drugs and other threats to the values and morality of "normal", "integrated" society. See EvilForeigner, a trope from which this one descended.

* In the second season of ''TheWire'', the primary antagonist is only known as "The Greek". [[spoiler:He's actually Israeli, but the gang seem to be primarily Greek.]]

* Doug the Head, Frankie Four Fingers and Cousin Avi in ''{{Snatch}}''.

These guys are usually involved with the [[TheMafia Italian Mafia]] and based on Bugsy Siegel or Meyer Lansky. Historically, the Jewish Mob was a dominant force in the brief period between when White America started seeing Irishmen as "white" and the rise of the Italian Mob.

* In ''{{Taken}}'', members of the Albanian mafia are responsible for the kidnapping of the protagonist's daughter.

* AmericanGangster: Real life drug lord Frank Lucas models his empire on the Italians' to create an African-American mafia, with him as the patriarch.

This is also a regrettably common UnfortunateImplications trope, as it allows lazy, stupid and racist writers to automatically denote close-knit immigrant communities with violence, prostitution, drugs and other threats to the values and morality of "normal", "integrated" society. See EvilForeigner, a trope from which this one descended.

This is also a regrettably common UnfortunateImplications trope, as it allows lazy, stupid and racist writers to automatically denote close-knit immigrant communities with violence, prostitution, drugs and other threats to the values and morality of "normal", "integrated" society.