10. As others see us. Hugo Muensterberg, The Americans, pp. 229-254.
Questions
1. What has been the relative rate of increase of population in your own state during the last two decades? Has the rate been more or less rapid than that of the nation as a whole? To what features is the difference due? What racial elements are strong in the population of your state and in what industries are each of these elements chiefly engaged?
2. What have been the impelling causes of immigration from (a) Germany; (b) Ireland; (c) Italy; (d) Russia?
3. Give four reasons why most immigrants settle in the cities.
4. Explain the principal effects of immigration upon (a) the growth of industry; (b) the scale of wages; (c) municipal politics; (d) the public school system (including evening schools, etc.).
5. Which races are the most difficult to assimilate and why?
6. Make some definite suggestions as to how the conditions of the negro race can be made more tolerable in this country.
7. Should Japanese as well as Chinese be excluded by law from immigrating to the United States? Give your reasons.
8. What mistakes are we most likely to make in our zeal for the Americanization of non-English speaking immigrants?