The experiment inflicted harm on its participants
♥ The language of Latin America is <span>Portuguese and common Spanish.</span>
They believed that the immigrants were hurting Americans(more strictly, immigrants that were not descendants of the original 13 colonies). A significant example is the Know Nothing or American Party of the 1850s. An earlier example is the Federalist Party which extended the time required to be American to 14 years through the Alien and Sedition Acts.
The linguistic relatively hypothesis, Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Lee Whorf advanced the linguistic relatively hypothesis, which argues that language influences our perceptions of the world. This is because we are more likely to be aware of things if we have words for them.