He saidI am giving his statement from memory" We accept American sovereignty. but it has not been our custom to go as fast as you people are going. We do not criticise the breakwater. the sidewalks. the streets. the sewers. or the railroads in themselves. We do not say you have spent too much money or that we have not got our moneys worth. We simply say that in an Asiatic. oriental country we are not in the habit of doing all these things today. We think it is better to wait and to leave some of them until tomorrow." In other words. it was the radical difference between oriental sluggishness and the American hustle. That is the occasion for all the criticism there is.
Identified stereotypes
Stereotyping 'orientals' as sluggish and resistant to progress.