ABSTRACT
The American's better social position is largely the result of his political position and his economic situation - of a radical-democratic system of government and of a comfortable standard of living. Both these are to be found within a colonising population with no history, which basically consisted, and still does consist, wholly of immigrants; a population in which there are no feudal institutions, except in some Southern slave states. Anyone who has ever observed, even only fleetingly, male and female American workers as they carry on their life outside the factory or the workshop, has noticed at first sight that they are a different breed of people from German workers. In the external appearance of the American worker there is not the stigma of being the class apart that almost all European workers have about them. In his appearance, in his demeanour, and in the manner of his conversation, the American worker also contrasts strongly with the European one.
