- Fair for Its Day: "How Can You Tell An American?" uses slurs to refer to Chinese and Romani people and also distinguishes between "civilized" and "aboriginal" people. However, it also professes the view that black people and so-called "aboriginals" share in the American identity of rebellion and broadly condemns inequality, which is pretty progressive for 1938.
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