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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WW2 was the major turning point for anti Catholic sentiments.

People fought and died side by side with their fellow Americans and all the questioning of whether a Catholic cared more about the Pope or the President washed away.

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