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Originally Posted by pj3000
It's a very different situation in comparison to Italian or Irish or Polish immigrants who immediately are lumped in as white American and stay that way. As the Pew study would seem to suggest, Hispanics don't really start becoming "non-Hispanic" until after the 4th generation in America, and only likely due "intermarriage" with non-Hispanics.
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But the same applied to Italian, Polish, or Irish immigrants. Part of the reason why they became
just "white American" in identity was because they married other white Americans who were not Italian, Polish, Irish etc. For a 4th generation Italian American to stay only Italian American and not
other white American, they'd also have to marry Italians each generation up until now, so that's not that different from Hispanics who intermarry and lose the Hispanic identity, especially if they don't speak the language, like Italian Americans who don't speak Italian.
Also, some fourth generation Irish-Americans in Boston still feel proud to be Irish, even if far removed from the "old country".