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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Same with the Irish, they became a big enough voting block that politicians started to cater to them. That’s how we got Columbus and St Patrick’s Day.

It’s already starting to happen with the Latino vote.

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