Poseidon wrote:
You know, Italians. Jews, Irish, Germans...they were all considered "non-white" back when Ellis Island was strong.
Just food for thought.
Not so much Germans. But they set up a law in 1924 restricting immigration of Southern/Eastern Europeans and also outright banning East and South Asians.
Also the USA had something akin to the White Australia Policy from
1924 to
1965The law was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans who were immigrating in large numbers starting in the 1890s, as well as prohibiting the immigration of East Asians and Asian Indians.
Over the succeeding four decades, Celler made the repeal of the Act into a personal crusade. Some of the law's strongest supporters were influenced by Madison Grant and his 1916 book, The Passing of the Great Race. Grant was a eugenicist and an advocate of the racial hygiene theory. His data purported to show the superiority of the founding Northern European races
America was quite a fucked up place when it came to race (and I'm talking on a government level) until recently.
Also it's funny how they more or less banned East and South Asians until 1965, and how now Asian Americans are the "model minority" of the USA with alot of the top careers.
Last edited by Mek-Stizzle (2008-08-14 11:21:41)