<span>The continuing portrayal of Italian Americans as gangsters is an example of </span>xenophobia. The answer to your question is D. I hope that this is the answer that you were looking for and it has helped you.
After coming to America, Italians have also faced discrimination in the hand of Americans. American had respectable bigotry against Italians immigrants by portraying them as gangsters or as mafia. Respectable bigotry happens when intolerance against ethnic groups is seen as unacceptable. American Italians as mafia in a television commercial and in serials, led in the stereotype behavior among the Americans.
Military-political considerations frequently cast special operations into clandestine or covert environments; therefore, their activities normally involve oversight at the national level.