Anti-Japanese hysteria generalized into hostility toward European immigrants.

Evidence

Anti-Japanese sentiment, gathering strength slowly after 1goo as immigration from Nippon increased, burst forth in a raging flood in 1905. Alive with hysteria, the California legislature unanimously called for Japanese exclusion, boycotts of Japanese businesses began, and the San Francisco School Board ordered the segregation of Asiatic pupils. ‘Che fires of anti-Oriental hatred cast at least a pale reflection on European outsiders. California newspaper editorials excoriating the Japanese had a way of broadening into appeals to preserve America for Americans. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 991

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Frustrated mimetic aspiration converts into violence against non-Europeans — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1138

Broader Connections

• Frustrated mimetic aspiration converts into violence against non-Europeans #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1138