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Originally Posted by Crawford
Italians took a bit longer to transition to the suburban periphery. They arrived later, tended to be in working class professions, and tended to resist ethnic change to a greater degree. And I may be caricaturing a bit, but Jews tended to value education more (so "changing" schools were more of a threat), and had a greater wish and means to avoid conflict
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Not really. My great grandparents were very confined to Italian community but my grandfather who came here as an infant totally assimilated in suburbia and my the time my father came along we were Italian in name only. He even started the family tradition of mispronouncing our Sicilian last name.