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Ghettos like we have now didn’t exist back then.The Italians and Irish assimilated and became productive members of society. The Somalis don't want that.
I have talked with older ppl. I'm not 12. I have read books. I know there were problems with assimilating each group of new Europeans. They lived in ghettos where as many ppl spoke Italian as English. Their kids translated for some of them until the day they died. Other Americans invented racial slurs for each new group of Europeans who came over and were going to "be the end of the American way".
It all seems so quaint now.
They moved into older buildings that didn’t look as nice as the modern ones at the time, but there was no real “ghetto” like we have with black Americans who have been here for generation after generation after generation.