RT KeepCalmAndDrawl ☦️ (@FormerlyFormer)My husband, who is of Italian descent, mentioned something interesting yesterday. It is true that when Italians first came here, they got the side-eye, discrimination, etc. They also tended to excessive nepotism and clannishness. His position is that Italian-Americans are American today **because** no one shielded them from the social pressures to assimilate. Did they have to entirely abandon their heritage/identity/customs? No. But modifying enough to work within an ...