I thought this was one of the
funniest books I ever read.
Natural Elementary Geography, 1897
"Italians are
wonderful farmers, some of them even have
some
skill in
painting and
sculpture. All of them are fond
of music... The Italian
immigrants in the
United States are
among our most
thrifty and i
ndustrious laborers. Nearly
all of our street "
organ-grinders" are the
music-
loving Italians."
"The
Chinese are very
polite to one another. Even after
he has grown up, a
Chinaman obeys his
parents when they
are
alive, and
worships them when they are
dead. Although the
Chinese seem
stupid in not
adopting new ways, they are very
clever in doing things in their
old-fashioned ways..."
"
Black men in America have become
civilized by living
with the
white people, but in
Africa most of the
negroes are
not civilized and are
frequently at
war. All of the negroes that
live in
North America come from Africa."