Japanese Residents Can Never Be Assimi Related Sparknotes

While McClatchy does not directly mention his belief of Japanese as inferior residents of America, he heavily hints at the racial, heredity and religious inferiority of Japanese stemming from their ‘undeveloped’ culture throughout his paper Japanese Residents Can Never Be Assimilated. McClatchy makes an implicit comparison between the religious practices of the Japanese, including Shintoism and Buddhism, and Christianity, highlighting the difference between the two people and the reputed mysticism of oriental culture that many Americans believed at the time. McClatchy goes on to state that their religious ideas have been bred in them for generations and reinforced through their afterschool Japanese schools where they are “taught the language, the ideas and the religion of Japan, with its basis of Mikado worship”, making it impossible to re-educate the Japanese on American ideals in his eyes. McClatchy emphasizes the supposedly insular Japanese culture by stating that
He states that the Japanese are cocky, proud, sensitive, and intolerant of criticism or opposition because of the “inbred and firmly establish belief in their superiority” which has been “passed down through generations, grounded into them in their schools, and a part of their religion”. McClatchy is clearly unconformable with the superiority of Japanese as it conflicts with his worldview of Americans as superior and Japanese as inferior peoples who may be exploited for economic purposes. Here lies the crux of the assumptions for Japanese exclusion for McClatchy – he is fundamentally unaccepting of the national pride of the Japanese and wishes to exclude them on that basis. However, McClatchy misinterprets a reasonable amount of national pride and the desire to preserve Japanese culture as a show of superiority, allowing for more rational authors like Kanzaki to refute his