In "Fascist Antisemitism and Jewish-Italian Relations in the United States" by Stefano Luconi, we can definitely see the tension between the Italians and the Jews. Many Italians worked under Jews and were very unsatisfied with the way they were treated. "...to the Italian who is exploited in sweatshops owned by Jewish employers, it sometimes appears logical that the Jew is the source of all his woes". Because some Italians received harsh treatments from Jews, it changed the way they saw the Jewish people as a whole. The Italian Echo even urged readers "not to express sympathy with the fate of Jews in Germany and Italy". The article says that "Jews monopolized retailing, boycotted merchants of Italian extraction...", so I understand where this hate comes from. When a person feels like another ethnicity is attacking theirs, he/she will act unreasonably and harbor hate or bias without a real reason. Reading this article, I didn't feel surprised or anything because it's nothing new in terms of tension between people of different cultures. It's not just the Jews and Italians. Where I'm from, there's even more tension between Native-Malaysians and Chinese-Malaysians. The Chinese-Malaysians are the ones who own many of the businesses, but Native Malaysians are the ones who get to work for the government. The government will protect the natives more and they don't even bother hiding the fact. I'm sure there are tension between races in many other nations. In many cases, people who work for others or are around those who share a different culture than them will feel like an outsider.

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