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Such a final racial amalgamation would then seem to be possible. How- 

 ever, there may be other obstacles in the way, and in any case it is not 

 necessarily advisable to work for such an end. This is a question I will 

 discuss a little later. 



Let us now consider what have been and are the actual relations be- 

 tween these ethnic types. The whites and the yellows have already 

 mingled to a large extent, so that a considerable proportion of the popu- 

 lation of Asia is a cross between the white and yellow races. They have 

 also mixed to a slight extent in Europe. These facts seem to indicate 

 that there is no very serious antipathy between these two types. It is 

 true that at present there is a good deal of hostility between these two 

 races, but this is undoubtedly due in large part to cultural differences 

 and political difficulties. 



In his relation to the black, the white has shown a good deal more 

 antipathy. The reasons for this are very evident, since the differences' 

 between the white and the black are much more striking in appearance 

 and much more obvious. And yet even between the white and the black 

 there has been a good deal of mixture. In northern Africa the two 

 races have been mixing for thousands of years, and even in Europe we 

 find traces of a slight amount of mixture in the past. In America we 

 find curious differences in the extent to which the white and the black 

 has mixed. In North America, the Anglo-Saxon has, to a large extent, 

 stood proudly aloof from the black, though he has frequently conde- 

 scended to illegitimate relations with women of color. But in the south- 

 ern part of North America, in Central and South America, the Portu- 

 guese and Spaniards have mixed very largely with the blacks and have 

 displayed comparatively little of the usual antipathy. These facts sug- 

 gest that this antipathy of the white to the black may not be as funda- 

 mental as it appears, and is due to esthetic ideas and cultural differences 

 and also perhaps to the consciousness of the fact that the blacks until 

 very recently were uncivilized and slaves. 



Between the yellows and the blacks also there has been some display 

 of antipathy, though it may not be as great as between the whites and 

 the blacks. 



I have said nothing about the American aboriginal type. In Latin 

 America this type has been assimilated very largely by the white, while 

 in Anglo-Saxon America it has become almost extinct. 



These facts seem to indicate that these racial antipathies are not as 

 innate or as permanent as they seem to be. But this does not mean that 

 there are no other obstacles in the way of racial amalgamation. Each 

 of the ethnic types evolved in a more or less characteristic physical en- 

 vironment, and is, therefore, adapted to such an environment. Thus 

 the negro is adapted in his color, physiological processes and tempera- 

 ment, which is due largely to emotional characteristics, to a tropical cli- 



