A host of causes contributed to anti-immigrant sentiment in the late 1800s, including differences in appearance, culture, and language, a dislike of poverty, the need for cheap labour, war-related mistrust of foreigners, and concerns about employment.
The fact that some of the people involved in postwar labour struggles were immigrants who identified as socialists and anarchists—whom many people mistakenly assumed to be Communists—fed the passions of nativists.
Global conflict One also led to splits since many immigrants adopted particular perspectives, for instance. Anxiety was exacerbated by the language barrier, especially between older immigrants who spoke English and new immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Asia who frequently did not.
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