Yes it's hard to imagine today, but Italian immigrants in America dealt with a lot of prejudice. Columbus Day, for example, exists largely because it functione

Yes it's hard to imagine today, but Italian immigrants in America dealt with a lot of prejudice. Columbus Day, for example, exists largely because it functioned as a reaction to anti-Italian-immigrant sentiment: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/12/769688161/columbus-days-meaning-for-italian-americans https://www.npr.org/2019/10/12/769688161/columbus-days-meani...