Research shows that immigrants tend to bring their prejudices with them, adopting the anti-immigrant sentiments of their new hosts. Middle-class immigrants may fear a loss of status. Others simply seek to distinguish themselves from a stigmatised group.

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Research shows that immigrants tend to bring their prejudices with them, adopting the anti-immigrant sentiments of their new hosts. Middle-class immigrants may fear a loss of status. Others simply seek to distinguish themselves from a stigmatised group.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    70·
    21 hours ago

    Almost everyone in the US had an ancestor that immigrated not that long ago, and if people didn’t do it within at most a couple generations, you wouldn’t see anti-immigrant sentiment.

    Puck political cartoon, January 11, 1893, “Looking Backward”:

    https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/3968c98b-d1ce-411d-9c96-7e8d9d81263f.jpeg

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    Caption:

    They would close to the new-comer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over.

    • Mothra@mander.xyzEnglish
      30·
      1 day ago

      That’s a really good piece of artwork, that’s not an easy concept to pull off and look at how well the artist nailed the physical resemblances between the faces, live vs shadow.