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8o< I \i. SUBEDIT? 



\\ '\\\ i- it : i have grown up to IK? an 



\\ h\ i> it that the mere accident of being born, we will 

 say in the state of Massachusetts, and being bred in that 

 state, has made of you an American and not a Chinaman 



ianT Aside from the physical Characters of 

 \vllow or red skin, muud head an<l , what 



'In- ditTVrcncrs iK'twrrii Ani'-ri'-ans and China- 

 Hint or Indians ai uces in culture, customs, 

 usages, ideals, art an<l lit.-ratmv. In tin- 

 when you were growing up you were formed and molded 

 by the suggestions and impressions that flooded you from 

 all loping consciousness found already 

 estnHMi'-d .-,-rtaiii standards, usages, ways of doing 

 and thinking. Some of these you were more or less at 

 lilM-rty to select and pick and choose, others you had 

 to observe so and so and never otherwise. Tour plastic 

 mind was bent this way or that within the limits of its in- 

 nt adaptahility. -o that now, when you are mature, 



me to think any standards, usages, or customs 

 win litTerent from the ones you are familiar with 



and which ><-ial class is used to, are strange and 



unusual, even wrong or immoral. You think the China- 

 man is queer, Imt he also thinks you are queer. And he 

 is quite as justified in his opinion of you as you are in 

 your opinion of him. The essential difference of your 



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