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Americanization which involves nothing more than setting foot on American soil by a foreigner, hih subsequent application for and attainment of citizen ship, and adopting the outer manners of A merica. A decade or more ago, it came to be felt as a result of various causes that the immigrant required protection from those ready to prey upon him. More over, it was feared that A mericanization, still of vague and elusive content, was not coming swiftly enough and that the processes must be accelerated. Insight and statesmanship lay back of this conviction, but, alas, these were insufficiently touched by the grace of humility. Wherefore the Americanizers proceeded in many cases to place their special brand of A meri canism upon ,the immigrant market. Had these humbly said, Let us, whether Americans of earlier or later growth, together seek after the American ideal, the newer or newest Americans might have been moved. Rut there was something repellant in the mechanical aspect of these facilitated and accelerated processes of A mericanization, which therefore failed to fire the imagination of the immigrant. Moreover and this is not only parenthetical some of the folk in the background, and sometimes in the foreground, of the Americanization movement represented or seemed to represent the very things which the immigrants believed America was not or ought not to be. The movement fell into the hands of in any event was subsidized by folk who seemed to the immigrant peoples to be American counterparts of or approximations to the feudal-minded lords of the lands whence the emigrants had fled. Thus in large measure the Americanization move ment began.
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