Ben and I continued to read about "Becoming American" in Chapter 27 in his text (page 336 - 337). We discussed how the new immigrants were likely to be of different races, and the diversity brought to cities was often seen as a negative by the people who already occupied the land. We discussed the reason why, such as fear they would take jobs away by working for less money into American culture. Others thought they should 'assimilate' into American culture as quickly as possible. 'Nativism' and opposition to immigration was on the rise again and racism against immigrants of color increased and became formalized.