The thing about this whole race debate is that everyone is different, and everyone is the same at the same time.

Again another thing that a lot of people in the US don't really know about is the fact that throughout the history of the country Catholics were heavily discriminated against. Before the Civil War, there were pogroms against Catholics, mostly Irish and Germans in several cities around the US. The KKK was founded not just against blacks, but also Catholics and Jews. It wasn't until the 1960's and the election of JFK as the first Catholic President that Catholics became accepted in the mainstream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Catholicism_in_the_United_States

Plus in the 1920's, the US put in place Immigration Acts which severely restricted immigration into the country from a whole lot of European (and Asian) countries. In fact, leading up to WW2 more people of certain European origins left the US than actually came in. In random places, I have met people who told me that their grandmother or grandfather was actually born in the US, but left the country during that era. Funny thing about the policy is that Philippinos being a US colony at that time could emigrate to the US in unrestricted numbers. This policy of immigration restrictions wasn't finally repealed until 1965.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924

And now with the racialization of everything and talk about "white privilege" in the US, everyone who is "white" gets grouped under the same heading. When in fact group, but also individual experiences varied vastly. The vast majority of "whites" in the US are either of German or Irish origin. In the so-called Rust Belt places like Ohio or Pennsylvania, a large percentage of the "whites" issue from groups that were heavily restricted under the Immigration Act. So imagine a lot of these people came, worked in horrible jobs in factories or in mines, and then many of them were facing so much "shit" that the decided to leave the country, taking their American born children with them. A lot of them stayed. Many of these people are still alive today, or their kids are. These people came in, worked their entire life in a horrible factory or mine, while at the same time being called racial slurs. Then many of these jobs went away, and their kids or grandkids living in the Rust Belt are unemployed with no hope of advancement.

Society is so complicated, and the individual stories of people are so different that you can't base the narrative on race and all this woke stuff that is flying around right now. The only way we can overcome is if we acknowledge our common humanity, and get rid of this divisive talk where everyone is trying to prove who suffers more and denying the basic individuality of others.

PS: even southern Italians look different in general from northern Italians, and not just that... and you have Syrians who have blue eyes and blonde hair... just look up what Bashar al-Assad looks like...