How did the idea of eugenics change business practices in the late 19th century? How was immigration affected by eugenics?

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Jewel Harding

22 January, 21:42

How did the idea of eugenics change business practices in the late 19th century? How was immigration affected by eugenics?

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Baron Banks · Answer 1

During the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th century, eugenics was considered a method of preserving and improving the dominant groups in the population; it is now generally associated with racist and nativist elements as the movement was to some extent a reaction to a change in emigration from Europe rather than scientific genetics.