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brides-to-be are almost without excep- 

 tion plantation laborers, and they so 

 state when they arrive. 



In general the Japanese women have 

 large families, are able to nurse their 

 babies (as many American women in 

 Hawaii are not), take good care of their 

 children, dress them in American 

 clothes when they begin to go to school, 

 and establish homes that compare fa- 

 vorably with other immigrant people of 

 similar economic and social grade. 



Upon comparison with the table of 

 Chinese marriages and intermarriages, 

 given in the Appendix, Tables I and 111. 

 it will be noted that there is little ten- 

 dency on the part of the Japanese 

 to amalgamate with the Hawaiians. 

 whereas the Chinese have contributed 

 largely to the formation of the Chinese- 

 Caucasian-Hawaiian mixture. Neither 

 do the Japanese marry as freely with 

 the Portuguese as the Chinese have 

 done. 



THE KOREANS 



The importation and immigration of 

 foreign-born Koreans into Hawaii up 

 to 1910 has been as follows: 



Previous to 1901 65 



1901-1904 3360 



1905 590 



1906-1910 145 



There are now about 5,000 Koreans 

 in Hawaii, mostly alien males. During 

 the five-year period, 1913-1917, 404 Ko- 

 rean men married and .^11 Korean 



women married. It is noteworthy and 

 most extraordinary that all of the 

 women, without exception, married 

 Korean men. The women of no other 

 race in Hawaii have a like record for 

 tenacious adherence to racial lines. The 

 women of no other race have married 

 only men of their own race. The Ko- 

 rean men have "out-married" to a con- 

 siderable degree, as witnessed by the 

 tables (see Appendix, table \' ) : 



CONCLUSIONS 



In general, Japanese marry only Jap- 

 anese ; they show remarkable racial al- 

 legiance, more so, as a race, than any 

 other in Hawaii. A few Japanese men 

 have married Hawaiian, part-Hawaiian, 

 and Portuguese women; only one has 

 married an American woman. There 

 are surprising few marriages between 

 the Japanese and the other Asiatic peo- 

 ples in Hawaii ; a few Japanese women 

 have been married by Chinese and Ko- 

 reans. In general, Asiatics in Hawaii 

 breed more freely with Caucasian stock 

 than they do among themselves. All 

 the Korean women have married only 

 Koreans. The Korean men have mar- 

 ried not only Koreans but also n^omen 

 of Hawaiian and part-Hawaiian blood. 



The Japanese and Koreans contrast 

 strongly with the Chinese in race mix- 

 tures, the former groups evincing 

 strong clannishness in marital selec- 

 tions : the latter groups f reelv breeding 

 "out." 



