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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