Italian Immigrants In Italian America

In 1861 different kingdoms ruled Italy until Garibaldi join army and unified the country into one; hoping the tyranny will be banish. Garibaldi thought that this achievement would join the southern and northern of Italy, and finally achieve freedom for the south of Italy. However, the northern of Italy saw the southern Italy peasants as “dirt” and will not care for them. In fact, the rulers of northern Italy decided to tax everything. Consequentially the southern people of Italy started suffer starvation. According to the Documentary “The Italian Americas – La Famiglia” it narrated a story about how people will scrap plaster for the wall in order to make the flour last longer and be able to feed their families. This demonstrated how the taxation …show more content…
Eve though, Italians were hard workers they experiences discrimination. Italians will work for a dollar a day, their living conditions where abysmal by having to live in railroads boxes. They also experiences discrimination by the Americans by showing insecurities about them because of their way of dressing, language and the stereotype given as a group of “gangsters” Italians where taken to jail, lynched, hanged and beaten by a reaction of the Americans because of distrust. Although, Italians didn’t have a easy transition they achieve to become successful people in the United States. Some open restaurants, others took the role of navigators and fisherman’s. Italians Americans are proud to be here, even though they still have mixed blessing about the United States, they believed America give them the opportunity of growing and keeping their roots with all the “Little Italy” communities that are still around many cities in the United States. As, United States convert the Bank of Italy to Bank of America as a show of Gratitude to Amadeus, after he help rebuilt San Francisco after a huge