142 THE NATURALIZATION OF IMMIGRANT PEOPLES 
Yet with so wide a range within each group and with such marked overlapping, the con- 
trast between North Western and South, Eastern and Central Europe, though valid on the 
whole, is unfair to certain groups of immigrants. While, for example, the percentages for 
vhe Jugo-Slavs, Italians, Greeks and Bulgarians are below any of those for the North 
Western Europeans, the proportions naturalized for many of the other countries in the 
South, Eastern and Central group compare very favourably with those from the North 
Western countries, The percentage for the Hungarians is larger than that for any North 
Western European country except Iceland; the proportion of the Galicians naturalized is 
almost as great as that of the Germans; those for the Russians, Roumanians, Austrians, 
Czechs and Ukrainians are about on a par with the centre group in the North Western section 
of the Continent, and much higher than the percentage for the immigrants from Holland 
and Belgium, 
Table 81, which classifies the European countries by linguistic groups, further emphasizes 
the danger of generalization. While it is safe to say that the Scandinavians as a group 
nave naturalized to a greater extent than the Latins and Greeks, one must keep in mind 
that, unlike the immigrants from the south of Europe, those from Roumania have become 
Canadian citizens to an extent even more marked than the Danes. And when comparing 
the Germanic and Slavie groups one cannot go much further than to state that the Germans 
have shown a higher percentage than any of the Slavs, and that the Dutch and Flemish 
1ave smaller proportions naturalized than the six Slavic countries from which the bulk of 
sur Eastern and Central European immigrants come. 
The tables must be studied in detail, and the relative rank of each of the important 
countries noted. Certain suggestions by way of explanation of the marked differences are 
made below. A complete explanation of a high or low percentage is a most difficult matter, 
but among the chief causes are probably biological and cultural differences in the people 
from the various countries, occupational differences in this country (naturalization or 
intention to naturalize being required of homesteaders), varying distribution as between 
=ural and urban districts, diverse proportions of males and females, and that most important 
factor, differences in length of residence in Canada. 
TABLE 80.—PERCENTAGE OF EUROPEAN BORN NATURALIZED, BY GEOGRAPHICAL GROUPS, 1921. 
Country of birth Percentage 
naturalized 
D.C. 
Vorth Western Europe— 
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Switzerland.................. Crenes 
Holland.......... . 
Belgium. . ...... .. 
Percentage for all North Western] 
Furopeans. . 
86-4 
1-7 
R74 
wg 
ac 
82-7 
Country of birth 
South, Eastern and Central Europe— 
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Ap pe 
rechoglovakia,.........ccocoiiviieninnn. 
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Julearia,.,.... 
Dercentage for all South, Eastern| 
and Central Europeans ...... 
Percentage 
naturalized 
pc. 
72-3 
35-3 
2-4 
n.E 
58-1