They controlled much of the economic and professional life as well. All this. however. is largely history. I am sure that many who may be in this audience tonight are grandsons. or possibly the greatgrandsons. of people who. because of their own experience of immigration. still naturally thought of themselves as representative of some distinct national group. But I am quite certain that no one in this room gives much thought to such group differences as once so clearly divided the immigrants from one another and from the descendents of the earliest settlers. The process of assimilation has created a country which is on its way to achieving a deeper fundamental unity of all groups. The average American voter of today reflects this process of assimilation.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are seen as representative of distinct national groups.