The choice of a mate.

  • Anthony Ludovici
Date:
[1935]
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    as distinct in their character and habits of life as if they had never come in contact with the superior race of Japanese.” 1 Dr. H. Berkusky, referring to the laws against mixed breeding among savages, says that formerly a Zulu girl who had intercourse with a white man was killed by her own people, together with her child. The cross-bred child was also killed among the Pilagoi and Mahave Indians, while among the Orang-Laut of the Malacca Peninsula, all half-breeds are segregated, and a woman who mixes her blood is ostracized. Among the Inois of Annam, and the Karagasses of Southern Siberia, all girls who mix their blood are punished. 1 2 Hrdlicka tells us that when infanticide does occur among the Indians, the child “ is of mixed blood.” 3 Professor Nieuwenhuis tells us that intermarriage between the tribes of Central Borneo, although not prohibited, “ occurs so rarely that the Taman-Dajak and Kajan-Dajak have lived over a hundred years close to one another without mixing.” 4 * Among other instances, Darwin says that even among the degraded Australian blacks, half-castes were killed, which in dicates that there was a strong bias against mixing. 6 Among the peoples principally responsible for our civilization, the Egyptians, the Jews, the Greeks and the Saxons, the abhor rence of the stranger was so great that in some cases their very word for stranger was a term of opprobrium. 6 And each of these peoples was not only inbred, but also incestuous. 1 Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro (New York, 1896» pp. 195-196). Also N.E., p. 115, where Bryk says : “ In his race consciousness, the Black is extremely exclusive. This exclusiveness may go so far that a woman who has relations with a man of another race becomes the object of the most bitter persecution at the hands of her own people. . . . The very fact that a woman loves a man of another race lands her in the most tragic conflicts.” 2 Die Sexuelle Moral der Naturvölker (Zeitschrift für Social Wissen schaft, 12 Jahrgang. Heft 12, p. 726). 3 Physiological and Medical Observations Among the Indians of S.W. U.S.A. and Northern Mexico, p. 166. 4 B.M., p. 74. 6 D.O.M., p. 170. Also Westermarck, The History of Human Marriage (I, pp. 39-41), where, among many other instances, the author says of the people of Lapland : “ Marriages between Lapps and Swedes very rarely occur, being looked upon as dishonourable by both peoples ; they are equally uncommon between Lapps and Norwegians, and it hardly ever happens that a Lapp marries a Russian.” Regarding scarcity of offspring between English and Australian natives, despite extensive relations, see The Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo, by Dr. P. Broca (London, 1864, pp. 47-60), who denies that hybrids were killed. b The Egyptians called all foreigners “ impure Gentiles ” (Herodotus, II, 158, and Wilkinson: The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egypti/. ns,
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