New European immigrants faced discrimination due to retaining cultural characteristics nativists deemed un-American, leading to efforts to assimilate and create a common identity.
New European immigrants who arrived after 1880 tended to experience more discrimination than old European immigrants mainly because they retained cultural characteristics nativists considered un-American.
The immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, such as Italians, Jews, Slavs, and Greeks, were viewed as inferior by white Protestant Americans, leading to increased prejudice and discrimination. This discrimination was fueled by the belief in their innate inferiority and the perception that they were causing social problems in America.
To address these challenges, immigrants eventually started assimilating and forming a common identity, such as Italian-Americans, to combat discrimination and prejudice and to better integrate into American society.
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