It’s why the US has St Patrick’s Day and Christopher Columbus Day. They needed to prove their worth to earn “whiteness”
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itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 8 hours agoThere are certain ethnicities that although white, have been marginalized and scapegoated for societies problems in the past. Groups like Italians and Irish people were considered a lower-tier of white people, just above black people, especially in the US in the 18-1900’s.
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
I’m pretty sure they weren’t considered any tier of “white.”