Greeks. and Italians. The fact that these ideas were widely believed to be scientific is all too evident in the U.S. Immigration Act of 1924. which codified these ideas into law. and which gave high immigration quotas to British. Germans. and Scandinavians. lower quotas to Middle and South Europeans. and total exclusion to the Japanese. The Chinese had already been excluded in Against this background of almost 100 years of successful antiOriental agitation throughout California. it is easy to understand that the attack on Pearl Harbor aroused in the people of California. as well as elsewhere. all the superstitious. racist fears that had been generated over the years. as well as the normal insanities of wartime.
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