Problem: Compare the perceptions of German immigrants and Chinese and Japanese immigrants.
Document A: A passage from a book about one immigrant's journey to America Preparation was now made for landing. The quarantine doctor took the captain's word that we were all in good health; his attention was required for the inspection of some very large emigrant ships that lay near us. There had been 4,700 emigrants landed on the previous Thursday, and we learned on Monday that 10,035 had arrived on the Saturday and Sunday, principally Germans, each possessed of a small capital, and all ready to proceed instantly to the various German settlements in the interior, without staying to waste their means in New York. The Custom-house officer's duty was a mere form. We landed on the New Jersey side, and Mr. Brooks and I entered a vehicle which drove right on board a river steamer, and the moment we touched the New York shore it was driven on, and we were on the streets. . . .
Document B: A quote from the Mayor of San Francisco in a newspaper article It is my firm belief that an exclusion act, even more stringent than the present one, should be passed in the matter of the Japanese immigrants . . . We may say that the Japanese is enlightened, and, this being true, his education prompts him to adopt American ways, and thus, with his cheap labor, dig at the foundation upon which rests the welfare of our people. Where a Chinese will work upon a farm at starvation wages, Japanese has the ability to acquire the property itself. The Chinese are dangerous enough, but the Japanese would drive all competition out of business. It is the stern duty of the American citizen and particularly of those of us upon this western coast, to scrutinize this evil and then suppress it with appropriate legislation