The 1911 Dillingham Report attributed character flaws to specific European nationalities

Evidence

In the Dictionary of Races or Peoples, produced in the 1911 Dillingham Commission’s Report on Immigration, forty-five races were counted entering the United States, of which thirty-six were indigenous to Europe. Among the races identified was the South Italian, who is “an individualist having little adaptability to highly organized society”; the Sicilian, who is “vivid in imagination, affable, and benevolent, but excitable, superstitious, revengeful”; and the Slav, who is “depressed, melancholy, and fatalistic,” as well as careless “as to the business virtues of punctuality and often honesty.” — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 240 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Eugenic reports classified most Eastern and Southern European immigrants as feebleminded; A 1911 US government report treated each European nationality as a distinct race — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 240; European immigrants’ racial difference had to be intellectually manufactured — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 768 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• A 1911 US government report treated each European nationality as a distinct race #corroborates (0.95) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 240