トランプの例のレイシスト発言、もとを辿ればアメリカの根底に流れているこの考え方。
後からやってきた者に対する先住者の
You — and others like you — are not welcome here
というセンチメント。ネイティブアメリカンを除けば皆移民なわけだけど、少しでも先住アメリカに同化出来ない後続移民を排除しようとする心情が基本にある。
特に日系に関して、
LIMBONG: That's Father Charles Coughlin, an anti-Semitic radio evangelist. Nina Wallace says newspaper owner V.S. McClatchy used to rail on about how Japanese people could never assimilate into American culture.
NINA WALLACE: They never cease being Japanese, you know. No matter how many years, how many generations they've been in this country, they are always something other than American.
LIMBONG: Wallace works at Densho, a Seattle-based oral storytelling project dedicated to Japanese Americans put into camps during World War II. She says exclusionary rhetoric became law once again with the Renunciation Act of 1944, a law aimed at getting Japanese Americans to renounce their U.S. citizenship.
これは聴いてて堪えた。適応できない日系人、その市民権剥奪という法律はまさに'Go Back Where You Came From'。結局"assimilate into American culture"がポイントなんだけれど、自分の市民権取得の動機もこのあたりが大きい。
