Is the Japanese Menace in America a Reality? -1921

This is material from The American Academy of Political and Social Science, January, 1921.

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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