Onethird was openly or covertly Loyalist. And the other third was that dependable minority to whom the Gallup poll pays regular tribute: the people who know nothing. feel nothing. and stand for nothing. We are also undoubtedly going to be plunged. through the TV tube. into a public bath of immigrants. all of whom will be warmhearted. simple. courageous and abused. But it would do no harm to young Americansit ought. rather. to fortify their idealsto learn that many a shipload of immigrants from 1848 into our own time contained also men jumping military service. and delinquents. both adult and juvenile: a lot of people with a lot to hide. This does not demean. indeed. to me. it glorifies the legions who struggled for a decent and tidy life. To know this will only confirm the daily experience of many young people growing up today in a community of mixed national and racial origins.
Identified stereotypes
Stereotypes immigrants as either warmhearted, simple, courageous and abused, or as men jumping military service and delinquents.