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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The melting pot melted them in, same as the Irish. They adapted, lost some traditions and accent and got folded in.
The biggest factor in this not happening is *appearance*. Irish and Italians looked like the majority of the existing population so disappear in a crowd. People who physically look different in unchangeable ways, or who refuse to give up very visible cultural or religious practices, are still easily “othered”.
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