I recognize that there is a dangerous lack of distinction between people of a certain nationality and the breed of the dog. Who is an American? Is he an immigrant from Italy? Is he an immigrant from Germany? If you were to go abroad and some one were to meet you and say. " I met a typicaf American." what would flash into your mind as a typical American. the typical representative of that new Nation? Would it be tile son of an Italian immigrant. the son of a German immigrant. the son of any of the breeds from the Orient. the soi of the denizens of Africa? We must not get our ethnological distinctions mixed up with our anthropological distinctions. It is the breed of the dog in which I am interested.
Identified stereotypes
Equating immigrants to breeds of dogs and questioning their Americanness.