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.
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”:
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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.
Gotta love how far and comfy they look now that theyr native