It is claimed here. however. that -we are making a goodfaith effort to protect the citizenship of our country against an influx of undeslrables. If that is true. it seems to me that every effort ought to be made to keep out of this country all people who are not capable of thorough amalgamation into the life of our people and who are not capable of being brought into thorough sympathy with our laws and our institutions. I am prepared to go as far as any man in the Senate to stop a movementwhich has gone too farthat has allowed to come to our shores many people who do not add to the general average of American citizenship. but if we are to exclude the Asiatic. which is the proposition brought forward by the committee. then by what line of reasoning are we to admit the African? Every Asiatic nation has had its civilization. some of them older than ours. and from some of those countries. the inhabitants of which will be excluded by the terms of this amendment. we have gained many of the great precepts of our civilization. In many of these countries the inhabitants of which are to be excluded wonderful architecture still stands to manifest the genius of the past. In many of the countries. whose inhabitants we propose to exclude. there have existed wonderful governments and wonderful men.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about the ability of people to assimilate and contribute to American citizenship.