In Chapter 5, “The Sting of Prejudice,” begins by discussing the differences in the ethnicities of immigrants as well as those already living in New York City. Earlier on, those immigrating to the United States were mostly white, but later on different ethnicities started to come into the US and they found more and more diversity in NYC when they did arrive. The main discussion of Chapter 5, though, is the actual idea of what race is, and what comes from that (racism). In the earlier days, Jews and Italians found heavy prejudice against them, even though nowadays they are mostly seen as fitting into the “white” category. Foner writes, “Racial differences may seem permanent and immutable – as if they are inevitable and “natural” – but, in fact, race is a changeable perception” (142).