INVASION A Study in the Psychology of BY JESSE FREDERICK STEINER, Ph.D. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT E. PARK DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO a Copyright A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1917 Published February, 1917 239663 QIYMLORD FIBKYKA W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO PREFACE THOUGHTFUL students of our immigration problem are more and more turning their attention to the immigrant invasion from the Orient, now small in volume but impelled by powerful forces that may some day be beyond our control. The overwhelming numbers of the Asiatics, the social and economic discontent of the people, and the aggressive nationalism of the Japanese are danger signals that are arousing us from our complacent feelings of security. Vast possibilities for both good and evil are bound up in the rapidly developing Orient. It is of the highest importance that our Government work out an Oriental policy based upon a thorough understanding of the Far Eastern situation and designed to conserve the best interests of all concerned. This book is an attempt to study one phase of this Oriental problem-the racial aspects of the Japanese immigration. Its interest is psychological rather than historical or economic. Emphasis is laid on the changing mental attitudes of the Japanese immigrants and on their reaction to the race prejudice they are compelled to face. The writer tries to show that the problem is deeper than that of social assimilation. The fundamental difficulty is a difference of color and physical character |