“The Hindu, the Newest Immigration Problem,”
Survey (1910)
nThe civic and social question concerns the ability of the nation to assimilate this class of Hindus and their probable effect on the communities where they settle.
Their habits, their intense caste
feeling, their lack of home life—no women being among them—and their effect upon standards of labor and wages, all combine to raise a serious question as to whether the doors should be kept open or closed against this strange, new stream.
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