The Old World in the New The Significance of Past and Present Immigration to the American People
CHAPTER VI
THE SLAVS 120
Place of the Slavs in history--Lateness of their awakening--Size of the Slav groups in America--Occupational tendencies of the Slavic immigrants--Distribution--Alcoholism--Criminality-- Subjection of women--Extraordinary fecundity--Displacement of other elements--Resistance to Americanization--Clannishness-- Social characteristics of Slav settlements--Industrial segregation--Mental rating--Prospects of Slavic immigration.