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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One reason is religion, another reason is money.
The Irish and Italians were the working poor and essentially slaves in the old days (more so for Irish). There was a lot of negative sentiment around them mostly because of their religious divide from other caucasians.
Once their numbers grew though and their religion was more accepted and they started to have money (and thus power) they slowly got more welcomed into the rest of the population, especially since there was now other races to dislike even more.
And also Italian food was pretty good so I think that helped as well
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