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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At the time of their discrimination they were a large chunk of the immigrants coming into the country, so they got blamed for all the issues that people blame immigration on.
There’s a great deal of people coming from Mexico, and currently that is a huge point of contention in US politics and they are often discriminated against.
The second largest group Irc is Indians and Southeast Asians. Discrimination against these 2 groups, especially Indians, has also increased a great deal over the years.
China is also a large source and these immigrants are also discriminated against, especially since COVID.
Immigration comes in waves from different countries. These immigrants build local communities and then integrate. Until then they receive discrimination. Then by the time that they are accepted their wave of immigration has past and it’s another group.
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