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pages 386-388, Dr. Floyd Henry Allport, Professor of social and political psychology,
 school of citizenship and public affairs, Syracuse University, states the
following:
‘The psychological differences between races are just beginning to attract the
attention of scientists. M. Le Bon mistakenly held that there is a gap between
superior and inferior races amounting almost to a distinction of species. The
vast differences in cultural adaptation between primitive and civilized races are
to be ascribed as much to ‘social inheritance’ and environmental factors as to
innate difference of capacity. It is fairly well established, however, that the
intelligence of the white race is of a more versatile and complex order than that of
the black race. It is probably (italics supplied) superior also to that of the red or
vellow races. (Footnote: Experimental data regarding the intelligence of the
Monogolian and American Indian races are meager.)”’
It will be noticed that the author declares that the data concerning the intelgence
 of the American Indian races are meager. Therefore, any allegation to
the effect that the Mexicans constitute an inferior race is utterly untenable.
Doctor Allport then goes on to state:
“ Attitudes of suspicion and hostility are shown in many localities, not only
toward members of different races, but toward immigrants of other nationalities.
Crowd influence in the public produces its usual effect of intolerant conservatism.
The ery is for exclusion or else for immediate Americanization. There can, of
course, be no true nation unless a recognition of common interests and ideals by
each individual binds the whole body politic together. But this fact provides
no evidence that the only desirable form of culture is that possessed by the
“uncontaminated” American. Solidarity of this narrow and provincial sort
serves in some sections of the country as a defense against the recognition of
backwardness in education and culture.”
So much for the psychological aspect of race prejudice. Now, in view of the
serious charges preferred against my race, it would seem entirely fitting and
proper to state who the Mexicans are. Gentlemen, I myself will not undertake
to do so. I shall leave that to members of your own racial extraction. who are
authorities on the subject.
In his work entitled ‘‘ What’s the Matter with Mexico?” pages 1-6, published
‘n 1916, Caspar Whitney says:
“To understand the present state of Mexico you must understand Mexican
conditions; and to understand Mexican conditions you must understand Mexican
character. To understand Mexican character you must know the blood mixture
which flows in his veins; and, if you would escape false and misleading notions,
vou must comprehend, deeply, for things in Mexico are not often what thev seer
to be to the onlooker.
‘“The aborigines were not chiefly ‘ Indians,’ as we are wont casually to call them,
but Aztecs, Toltecs, Zapotecs—that numerous, sturdy race which there and in
Peru left architectural and engineering monuments revealing art, inventive
xenius, and mechanical skill to prove them a people apart from. and above in
culture. the roving Redmen of the North.

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“When the Spaniards came to Mexico with their arts and their agricultural
skill, their industrial training, their chureh, and their avarice, they found in this
hardy people, who had so valorously defended their capital city until betrayed
and overwhelmed, a means ready at hand to till the soil and to search the mountains
 for that golden storehouse of which they had heard and dreamed.”
Frank Tannenbaum, in his book “The Mexican Agrarian Revolution,” page
23 et seq., published by The Institute of Feonomies of The Brookings Institution
in the year 1929, states:
“The greater part of the Mexican people are either Indian or Mestizo. The
most recent figures for the racial distribution of the Mexican population give the
nestizo 8,504,561, or more than half, and the Indian, 4,179,449, or less than a
third of the total population. The percentage distribution given in the census of
1921 is as follows:
Racial distribution of the Mexican population Percentage
of total
59. 33
29. 16
9. 80
1. 00
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