Correct. The answer is d. Kinzo Hirai’s goal in his address was to emphasize that although the United States was supposed to be a Christian nation, it pursued discriminatory and clearly non-Christian approaches to Japan and the Japanese.

Incorrect. The answer is c. Kinzo Hirai’s goal in his address was to emphasize that although the United States was supposed to be a Christian nation, it pursued discriminatory and clearly non-Christian approaches to Japan and the Japanese.

Correct. The answer is a. Hirai’s address listed multiple examples of Americans’ maltreatment of and discrimination against Japanese people, both in Japan and in the United States. The anti-Japanese prejudice he described was connected to Americans’ assumptions that the Japanese were a “lower race” that had the potential to dilute whites’ racial purity.

Incorrect. The answer is a. Hirai’s address listed multiple examples of Americans’ maltreatment of and discrimination against Japanese people, both in Japan and in the United States. The anti-Japanese prejudice he described was connected to Americans’ assumptions that the Japanese were a “lower race” that had the potential to dilute whites’ racial purity.