There's still a lot of Italian culture, of course not as much in the 50s/60s but it's like that for every ethnicity. They become Americanized. But there is still Italian culture around along with Irish and Polish. Those 3 are the only white ethnicities in my opinion that still have culture and neighborhoods today. You don't see any German or English neighborhoods today. Italian culture won't go away for a long time.
Might sound odd, but I don't really view Italians, Mexicans, other light skinned Latinos (like true Spaniards) as being "white." I think if you're an Italian Catholic, you're something quite different than some mutt of English-German-Dutch ancestry who is your typical Protestant...To me those are 'white' people.....
