Blaming immigrants for eating pets was an American urban legend years before Donald Trump spread the rumor about Haitians in Ohio. Following the pattern of other urban legends, such as the "rat in the Coke bottle" and the "Vanishing Hitchhiker," the legend that newly settled immigrants are eating dogs and cats has been around for decades.
Another good article on the topic:
Immigrants-eat-pets trope is a century-old stereotype and 'very old racism'www.usatoday.com
When May-lee Chai was in high school in the early 1980s, a Chinese restaurant finally opened in the small South Dakota town where her family lived.
"The food was delicious!" remembered Chai, now a creative writing professor at San Francisco State University.
But when her parents invited friends to lunch there, they always politely declined. Rumor was they'd be served stray cats and dogs.
Though the rumor was totally false, the owners, who had fled from the Communist Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, eventually had to sell their business and move away, Chai told USA TODAY.
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