Question

read this sentence from a summary about some americans reactions to immigration in the late 1800s. "everyone who held nativist views was a cruel person" why would this sentence be inappropriate in an objective historical summary?

Answer 1

Answer:

It expressed an opinion

Answer 2

To assume that absolutely all people who hold a nativist point of view was cruel is very vague because it has no way of proving or sustaining itself. When it comes to making objective summaries must take into account the real events, based on truthful information and not put our own perspective in the text because  it is not about us and what we think or feel, it is about real event without mixing our feelings with what happened.

To make it a little clearer, if someone states in a text that all Germans during a time wanted to kill all Jews would be an invalid, false and very inappropriate statement for a historical summary. Although the Nazi movement had as its purpose the eradication of Jews, not all Germans were Nazi and not all those who belonged to the Nazi movement wanted to kill people, many of them just needed a job.

Best regards,

Kat