To the chauvinist Chinaman. his country is the Celestial Empire. to the Japanese. the Land of the Rising Sun. the German has. of course. tile greatest culture. the Frenchman tile noblest civilization. tile Englishman rules the world. the Americans are. of course. the free and the brave. While this sort of national frailty is excusable in old nations. Asiatic or European. it is utterly incomprehensible when found aniomng the American people. full of the vigor of youth and absorbing unto itself all that is strong and virile in the human stock. This sort of man can not be reasoned with. We come to the second element. We.find year after year and Congress after Congress a solid vote for the restriction of immnigration from the representatives of those States where children are exploited. where industry is undeyeloped. where agriculture is. in a primitive state. and wlere there is a particularly submissive class of labor. These States suffer because of lack of immigration. Not only have they not developed their natural. resources. but they liave been sufferiilg periodically fion floods and inundations which they seem to be utterly inchpable of coping with. The"hitd immigrant. bringing with hia thegerms of discoiteit. coming �here "ii quest of better opportunities. a rebel seeking a larger freedom. is feared by these elements. And the strange thing about It is that it is these very States that have an illiteracy of distressing proportions among the native white population: Thus. Alabama. from which comes the distinguished author of this bill. has 15.7 per cent native white illiterates.
Identified stereotypes
Each nationality is presented as having an exaggerated sense of national pride and superiority.