Hindu Coolie 
_ Peale « Sambo" 
- 
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ONE TYPE OF RACE MIXTURE IN JAMAICA, B. W. I. 
(School Children in the Town of Moneague.) 
BLENDING OF RACIAL TRAITS 
Another picture here shown is of 
three children from a school in a 
Jamaican town. The boy to the left 
is a Hindu® coolie with no negro blood 
in his veins, although his skin is as 
black as that of the average quarter- 
blood negro. His features, however, do 
not disclose any negroid traits. The 
boy to the right is a “‘Sambo,’” that is 
of three-quarters black and one-quarter 
white blood. The little girl in the 
centre is descended from a Hindu 
coolie father and a “‘Sambo’’ mother. 
Here we see racial traits blending. 
This blend is especially noticeable in 
the hair, the nose and the lips. So 
potent is the pure-sire® method of race 
assimilation that should this girl, her 
daughters and her granddaughters 
marry Hindu co lies, doubtless the 
racial transformation would be com- 
plete in that direction; or if, on the 
other hand, she and her daughters and 
ree On March 31, 1918 there were 20,206 East Indian immigrants in Jamaica. 
in principally to work on the sugar plantations. 
See the text below for explanation. 
(Fig. 19.) 
granddaughters were to marry “‘Jamai- 
cans,” the assimilation of her descend- 
ants by the latter race would be equally 
complete. 
CONCLUSION 
The data given in this article are iso- 
lated but th y ere representative facts 
from the mass of anthropological evi- 
dence which demonstrates the general 
fact that whenever two races come into 
intimate contact the upper race tends 
to remain pure while the lower tends 
toward assimilation into the upper, by 
the pure-sire system. Thus the expres- 
sion “‘the salvation of a great nation is 
the virtue of its women” is true racially 
as well as socially and morally. So long 
as the basic instincts and the social 
ideals of mankind remain as they are 
today, and have been since man first 
appeared, racial evolution and assimi- 
lation will tend toward the race-types 
of men which the women of the par- 
ticular nation choose as mates. 
They are brought 
7 Chas. B. Davenport, Heredity of Skin Color in Negro-White Crosses, 1913, p. 27. 
8 Harry H. Laughlin, The Relation between the Number of Chromosomes of a Species and 
the Rate of Elimination of Mongrel Blood by the Pure-Sire Method. 
Proceedings of the Society 
for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1919, xvi., pp. 132-134. 
