He and his contemporaries. now for the most part departed. then led them some 30 or 40 years ago in what was. while bloodless. one of the most fundamental political revolutions in the Western World. How hard it is for us who did not experience the trials and traumas to appreciate the superhuman effort required by the nonAngloSaxon peoples of this Nation to climb out of their ethnic enclaves and parochial environment. The immigrant was more often than not the victim of repression on the part of the government of the country from which he had come. There was inbred in him. therefore. an instinctive suspicion and fear of all government and its agents. So deepseated was this feeling that it was generally transmitted to his childrenthe firstgeneration Americans.
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Immigrants are described as having an instinctive suspicion and fear of all government and its agents.