In late nineteenth-century debates on American immigration,many scholars and government officials privileged immigrants from northern Europe over those from southern Europe,such as Italians and Greeks,because the officials felt these southern people were a separate and inferior biological race with primitive ways.This is an example of

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The privileging of immigrants from northern Europe and the belief that southern Europeans were a separate and inferior race with primitive ways is an example of ethnocentrism, or the belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group. Elitism refers to the belief in the superiority of a certain elite or privileged group, genocide refers to the deliberate killing of a large group of people, and ethnocide refers to the destruction or suppression of a particular ethnic group's culture.

In Late Nineteenth-Century Debates on American Immigration,many Scholars and Government