Eugenics and Xenophobia in the United States

This was around the time when you ere starting to see a lot of people from catholic countries, in jewish countries, come to the united states. So it is the same thing that drove xenophobia and anti imigrant sentiment in the 19 twenties as well as eugenics. And this was my introduction to how prevalent eugenics was and how unashamedly many americans practised it as a belief system at this time. It can't be overstated that.

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