Show t Our Changing Strain II By Herbert Kaufman VERY generation witnesses the addition of another prominent EVERY E alien element to our already variegated blood The Saxon Anglo-Saxon clement element is rapidly losing prominence in the national mixture Once strange peoples from Baltic provinces and Mediterranean kingdoms are contributing more mor and more corpuscles to the Babel strain introducing Sla Slavic vie Levantine and Semitic impulses impulses impulses im im- pulses enriching the vernacular with their idioms affecting our ideas with their ideals stimulating the common imagination re revitalizing revitalizing revitalizing re- re vitalizing ingenuity W We rub elbows and erase prejudices and antagonisms At contact we find that the main difference between most of us is a matter of accent tailors and table manners intrinsically were we're pretty much the same Racial dislikes are founded upon hearsay f far r oftener than experience In 1811 Niles Nile's Register bewailed the overcrowding of the United States and urged an immediate restriction of immigration with especial emphasis upon the Germans and Irish to whom unbelievably un unbelievably unbelievably un un- believably ridiculous morals and habits were attributed ed Thus ignorance has counseled bigotry straight through his his- tory tort Ve We believe the worst of those whom we have not met No one particular land breeds supermen supermen The melting pot detects few differences in the brains and veins veils it blends and fuses Go soft in your criticism of certain fellow citizens You'll probably have a few of them for children in law children law later on Copyright 1916 by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and all other rights reserved reserved I |