Is the Japanese Menace in America a Reality? -1921
This is material from The American Academy of Political and Social Science, January, 1921.
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1:Foreigners in Japan are allowed to own land.
1: The anti-Japanese people in the U.S. are mixing foreign and domestic problems.
2: The U.S. Japanese 'problem' dates back to around 1900.
3: The anti-Japanese arguments should be carefully examined.
1: The increase in Japanese population has been due to women and children, not more men.
2: The Japanese birth rate.
1: High birth rates for immigrant groups are normal at first.
1: The Japanese don't own or control very much farm land.
2: Assimilation needs to be defined and conditions relating to it need to be specified.
3: The author defines assimilation and points out the conditions needed for it.
1: Immigration tends to change the immigrants physically, and this is happening also to the Japanese.
1: American-born Japanese are making major cultural assimilation progress.
2: They are devoted to America.
3: The Japanese are racially assimilable.
1: Intermarriage is not a requirement of assimilation.
2: The Japanese are not necessarily working for lower wages.
3: Their standard of living is going up.
1: The Japanese language schools try to help bridge the gap between the parents and the children.
2: The Japanese immigrants are tending towards Christianity rather than Buddhism.
1: The Japanese are conforming to the way things are done in America.
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