Next I proceeded to England and other parts of Europe, where modern. education, culture and industry based upon scientific methods have exerted tremendous influence in the promotion of confidence, wealth and race Superiority among the inhabitants. In spite of the obvious racial. mixtures Among the Caticasians ranging from fair hair, high noses and blue eyes In the north, to dark hair, black eyes and brown skin in the Batkan Peninsula and Levantine regions, there was practically no feeling of race pre-Jidice such ax we know It in India und the East. The Anglo-Saxons Were often dubbed the gentlemen of the West as the Chinese are the gentlemen of the Orient.
Next I visited Hawaii, the paradise of the Paeifl, rendered immortal by. {ts mild tropical weather and seduetive hula dances. But what struck me" most was the extraordinarily. Targe number of mixed racial groups, so much s0 thal few of the pure indigenous Hawaiian natives appear to survive now. Of the 87 odd mb between Hawaiians and other Tam told by scientific authorities that (he Hawaiian-Chinese are the most intelligent, progressive and autecessful, This has been shown not only by educational but by morbidily stalisties; in other words, the Hawaiian-Chinese Is reported to be eas Hable to sickness and, when he does suffer from infectious disease, itis in a milder form and he recovers more quickly.
American Various Fusions Procoeding to the United States, one observed a wider and freer mixture of the Aryan races who have emigrated from various parts Europe and have successfully amal~ gemoted With the earlier Mayflower Pioneers. There seems to be in North America no limit to the fusion of races, provided two conditions are fulfilled: financial considerations, and nonsmingling of coloured with white Individuals, ° This latter condition is not $0 rightly observed in the various feountries of South America though it has often been reported to me that the negroid offleiais of some of the smaller states display more race consciousness in their treatment of any unlucky "yellow" or "coloured" ship passengers who may call at a Cuban port or pass through the Panama Canal.
Next, in that somiccontinent of India with its. 350,000,000 inhabitants and 4,000-year history, one encoun tered divisions of the human family ranging from the fair, blue-eyed Cauieasian of Kashmir to the very dark, silky-halted Dravidian of South Thais, These extremes are separated not only by political stations but by religious passions, so that a Hindu Brahmin may refuse to drink the same Water or worship in the same temple os a Hindu untouchable, But even in India, one meets with all kinds of mixed' races and deseendanis of Netherlands, Portuguese. French, British, Arabian and Mongol forebears. Inthe island of Ceylon, descendants of joint Netherlands and Singalese parentage have prospered exceedingly and some have occupied high government and mercantile positions.
In the northern part of Japan be seen a limited and ever dimin-Ishing colony of backward Nordic Aryan, called Ainu, who has been left behind in the struggle for exfstenee by his darker mixed brother of Kyushut in the south, whither 3.000 yeats ago emigrants from southern Fukien emigrated and contributed Partly to generations of loyal, ven= tiresome and sea-loving Samurai, As regards the numerous scattered islands "Known as the Netherlands East Indies, the original inhabitants are also of the Malay race who have received an infusion from the conquering tribes of southern India, afier which the Chinese came and became part-progenitors of the present generation of active and successful merchants. From Holland fathers also has sprung an. influential and. Intelligent portion of the community, who serve both colonial and home governments with loyalty and. distinction.
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