 Similar codes are also deeply rooted in other areas of the Mediterranean, including rural Spain, Crete (Greece), and Corsica, all of which share a common or similar historic culture with Southern Italy.It also exists, to a lesser extent, in certain Italian-American neighborhoods, especially in neighborhoods where the Italian-American Mafia has strong influence, as well as in Italian ethnic enclaves in countries such as Germany, Canada, and Australia, where Italian organized crime exists.Similar codes of silence have been observed in Jewish-American, Greek-American, Albanian-American, Russian-American, Japanese-American, Korean-American, Chinese-American, African-American, Hispanic-American, Armenian-American, German-American, and Irish-American neighborhoods, as well as amongst some bikers.