Who was treated worse when they first immigrated to America, the Irish or the Italians?

[Dave24]

Who do you all think was treated worse when they first came to America, the Irish or the Italians?

Also, at what point in American history were they considered "white"? Why all of a sudden did the WASPS accept them and stop discriminating against the Irish and Italians?

 

[全能の神]

the africans

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

Irish probably

 

[Cave Savage]

All European descended people were accepted as white in the US by WWII

 

[Dave24]

All European descended people were accepted as white in the US by WWII

Why were they accepted by WWII?

 

[BulletProof]

Irish.

Some were treated like slaves and most came over as indentured servants.

They weren't considered white until the 50's.

 

[Cave Savage]

Why were they accepted by WWII?

I think by this point, enough Irish and Italians had integrated into mainstream white society.

 

[Yehuda]

The Irish cause "they were slaves too".

 

[Fenian]

probably the irish. plus the big migration in the 1840s was caused by the brits commiting genocide on us and we're still to this day treated like shyt in our own country by the brits.

I know italians where victims of one of the biggest mass lynchings in us history though and it took until at least the 50s for either group to be accepted by white america fully.

 

[Remote]

The Irish.
They were already hated long before they came to America.

 

[MikeyC]

They got treated like shyt in Europe, so it was probably the Irish.

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

The mexicans of europe.. Aka the irish.

 

[NBA Youngbreh]

Irish, i was reading one story about when they first immigrated and Some went down south to do this dangerous job that the slaveowners wouldn't even use their own slaves because slaves cost money. Irish Americans can kick rocks tho

 

[BigMan]

Dagos.......after blacks they were the most lynched group

 

[StickStickly]

Probably the Irish. They had us read a story in high school about Irish girls who worked in factory and died when it burned down. The factory owners didn't care enough to make a proper fire exit.

Edit I retract that. Looks like it was the Italians and Jewish who died in that fire. Maybe the Italians had it worse.