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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Some good answers already, but it’s important to note that the genesis of discrimination against Irish and Italians was anti-Catholicism. When Catholicism became more accepted in mainstream American society (as evidenced by the election of an Irish Catholic president in 1960) the discrimination against so-called “white ethnics” really fell by the wayside
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