The Cantonese are considered to be the most progressive among Chinese and this is looked upon as surprising by Europeans, because in Europe and America northerners are more intelligent and go-ahead than southerners. It is quite possible that the climatic factor, just as the pure breed factor, has been over emphasized. In my humble opin there are two reasons for Canton's comparative go-aheadness, "namely, its earlier contact with the West, and the greater mixture of its inhabitants. An impartial seientife inquiry into he constitution of the population of Kuangtung will be found to show wider ronges of race mixture than anywhere else in China and also that the more mixture the greater the achievements. this connection 1 may correct the misconception that Chinese are yellow: their skin should more cor-cootly be called ivory-tinted or ivory. Yellow is associated with jaundice, which results from liver trouble.
Hongkong, which has come into the picture for the past 100 years, offers perhaps. greater opportunities for a study of this sort. Into the already mixed people of Kuangtung settled down, there have been sown success sive generations of Caucasian visitors all grades—merehants, clerks, policemen, overseers, sailors and soldie: s T shall always remember how 15 or 20 years ago bundles of Chinese sampan women were hauled up Sri to steamships in the night (when the lighted gangways were officially closed) to satisfy the needs of hund-cods of members of the foreign crews.
'Any resulting offspring will show some Caueasion features in the way of hair, eyes, texture of skin and physique, though the children will bear the' name of the mothers. One
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