You can not find a bank in the Orient. whether English or Japanese or American. that has not as its cashier. handling its funds. a Chinese. That is the universal rule. Yet we propose to say to these people. "Not only your coolies. but your merchantsmen whose ancestors dressed in silks when ours were wearing skins and living in the caves of the bearsshall all be placed under one category and shall all be treated alike." I do not think it fair thus to demand from them what we are unwilling to grant them in return. I say. let the Chinese stay there. we do not want them. but let us be honest and say. "This is a matter of selfprotection." But let us not brand these people in a body as rascals and thieves and cowards. let us not say that their wordeven the word of their honored merchantsis not to be trusted. There is another reason why I think we should be fair to them.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that Chinese are rascals, thieves, and cowards.