Excerpt from Sons of Italy: A Social and Religious Study of the Italians in AmericaNothing is so perilous in a democracy as ignorance and 111 difference.We build a Chinese wall of exclusiveness around ourselves, our churches, and our communities, and then blame the foreigner for not forcing his way within.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.