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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People still talk shit about Italians. I was at a family friend’s house, and the hostess proceeded to tell Italian joke after italian joke. Typical shit about hygiene and such. I just let her know that my grandmother was Sicilian. I don’t really consider myself Italian just because I had a Sicilian grandmother, but it was still offensive. I didn’t make a big todo about it and I tried to laugh it off.
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