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Carlton Beals, in his work Mexico, pages 4-6, published in 1923, declares:
“Nevertheless, in spite of ethnic and social confusion, a distinct cultural and
cacial type is slowly emerging. This type results from the mixture of the two
sreat race stocks, Iberian and Indian, and is called Mestizan.
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“The mestizo * * * is probably the Mexican of to-morrow,” the only
Mexican that can withstand the pressure of the rising industrial system; and
with all his weaknesses he is a type that promises ultimately to be more tenacious,
progressive, and peaceful than the purely Latin races, and more adaptable to
ag civilization than the pure Indian.” (Mexico, by Carlton Beals, pp. 200—
201.
In his book entitled “Mexico of the Mexicans” L. Spence. a British author.
states:
“The Mexicans are most united in their family ties and affections; and parents
and children, brothers and sisters are, as a rule, deeply attached to each other,
and display much warmer sentiments in their relations than is the case in colder
England. In Mexico woman has not yet lost her natural charm and influence,
which in the home she exercises to the full. The male members of the family
are, as a rule, most amenable to the influence of the mother, the wife, the sister;
and the Mexican woman exerts herself to retain the affection of her male relations
in a manner that would astound a daughter of Britain. It has even been said
that Mexican men are subject to a great deal of feminine ‘coddling’ —a stupid
term bestowed upon delicate, attention and affectionate regard. the nature of
“hich the Anglo-Saxon whol fails to comprehend.

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“(Courtesy is the rule and not the exception in Mexico. Even in the poorest
circles the day laborer will address his neighbor as ‘Don,’ and expects to be so
antitled in refurn. Roughness and asperity are conspicuous by their absence in
the relationships of everyday life. No matter into what grade of society one may
penetrate, he will find himself the object of the most respectful, nay, even solicitous,
 politeness. This courtesy is the natural endowment of the race. The peon,
scion of the grave and punctilious Aztec folk, is not to be outdone even by the
descendant of the proud, yet courtly, Castilian. Indeed, the uniform respect with
which the peasant class treat those whom chance has placed above them in the
social scale has not now its parallel in any European country, unless, perhaps,
in Russia or some of the more out-of-the-way parts of the Austrian Fnpire.
From the Mexican peon you will receive nol only fair speech and nice, discriminating
 politesse, but, on occasion, fervent, and what seem heartfelt pravers
for vour welfare here and hereafter

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“Tt is fashionable, in some quarters, when the subject of the future of Latin-America
 is discussed, to adopt an air of profound pessimism. It is surprising to
sncounter men of experience who, in dealing with such questions, adopt the attitude
 that progress among certain races is impossible, and that to expect advance—
social, political, or commercial—in regard to them is to expect the incredible.
Yet the lessons of race history do not teach us such counsels of despair. Many
reat nations have lapsed into barbarism or else been totally forgotten, whilst
Sthers have risen from the most negligible beginnings to a place in the forefront
of the world’s activities. There is nothing in the geographical position or natural
resources of Mexico which would lead us to the conclusion that one day, when
wer national evolution is complete, that she will not be able to take her place side
by side with the most favored countries. Nor is there anything in the type or
constitution of the race which inhabits her soil which unfits them for a great
destiny.
“Those who criticize the peoples of Latin America are usually those who understand
 them least. At present, taking them all in all, they are in some respects
an adolescent people. Moreover, they are a highly composite people; and what
race, it may be asked, has been enabled to justify itself before it had reached
that stage in its evolution when the various stocks of which it was composed
had been welded into ethnic unity? Certainly not the Anglo-Saxon race, which
does not appear as a European power of any magnitude until the beginning of
the sixteenth century—precisely the epoch of which Mexico was discovered.
“Tt can not be too strongly insisted upon that the two races which, for the most
part, go to make up the-Mexican people, are stocks which have behind them a
reat record of human endeavor. It is unnecessary in this place to dwell upon
The question of what Spain has done for the world at large. As a great Spanish