Why Italians aren’t discriminated against in America anymore?

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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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I come from a family of Italians who’ve been in Oregon since around 1900 when my gr-gr-grandpa came from Italy. My grandmother when she was around 90 told us her memories of growing up in Portland in the 1920s & seeing signs banning blacks, Irish and Italians. That was around the time that the KKK helped elect the governor.

Being a kid in school at a very rural in not wet forest western Oregon but arid high-desert eastern Oregon town (wheat/cattle country) being told by a friend that he was shocked when he found out Italians were considered white. This was late 70s/early 80s iirc.

How ironic when I joined the Army many of the Italian-American guys I knew from NY/NJ/Mass were among the most racist people I’d ever met. 🤷🏻

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