Question

In late nineteenth-century debates on American immigration, many scholars and government officials privileged immigrants from northern Europe over those from southern Europe, such as Italians and Greeks, because the officials felt these southern people were a separate and inferior biological race with primitive ways. This is an example of _________.

Answer 1

Answer: the answer is A

Answer 2

The answer is racism. It is racism because they treated the Europeans from the north more better than Europeans from the south for no reason when they were essentially the same