Italian Americans used to face a lot of discrimination but now Italian hate in America is virtually non existent. How did this happen? Is it possible for this change to happen for other marginalized groups?
Edit: You don’t need to state the obvious that they’re white and other minorities aren’t, we all have eyes. Also my definition of discrimination was referring to hate crime level discrimination, I know casual bigotry towards Italians still exists but that wasn’t what I was referring to.
Anyways thank you for all the insightful answers, I’m extremely happy my post sparked a lot of discussion and interesting perspectives
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By modern definitions of discrimination I think we still are.
I’ve seen so many hit TV shows where non-italian actors are laying on the thickest fakest Italian American persona that would be considered straight up racism if it were any other race.
That being said I don’t share these definitions of racism and discrimination, I just find it tirelessly annoying.
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