Manchurian beans

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Identifikator:: 1795345705

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179245

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Manchurian beans

Place of publication:: Dairen

Publisher:: The Manchuria Daily News

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: III, 81 Seiten; Ill.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IX. Trade in staple produce

Collection:: Economics Books

ENDOGAMY AMONG THE COLOURED RACES 119 TABLE 61.—ENDOGAMY AMONG PARENTS OF CHILDREN OF COLOURED RACES, 1921. Men Origin Japanese... ciate ire Chinese.....oooeov... wll Bp 43 BHEES 3 1 [ndian........... J, AVEIaO. inertia enna Percentage married to women of same origin 98-4 92-9 92.9 90-0 02-8 Women Racial Origin JAPANESE. . cov v iranian aie meena “hinese........... SRiwi An ew SORRY: 55 pares wih ap eT 4x ws Boras a wm bn ndian...... we AVOTBEO. ov vvvnernn. Percentage married to men of | same origin 49-38 99-0 85-8 76-9 04-7 The coloured stocks are thus seen to stand very high as to percentage of both men and women marrying within their own group. Stated conversely, the tendency for the coloured to mix by marriage with the whites is remarkably small. The colour barrier seems to be the greatest of all barriers to assimilation. This applies both to men and women. That the amount of endogamous marriage is greater for the women than for the men of the yellow stocks is at least in part due to the relative scarcity of such women in Canada because of immigration difficulties; and the lower percentage of endogamous marriage among Indian women may be related to the relative scarcity of white women in certain sections of this country. The figure for the negro women is unreliable because the origin of 11 p.c. of the husbands was unstated. The point to be emphasized in this section, how- ever, is the fact that colcured stocks have mixed least either among themselves or with the whites, up to the present time. Passing to Table 62 it is seen that, as a class, both the men and women of South, Eastern and Central European stocks had married within their respective groups to a far greater extent than had those of stocks from the North Western parts of the continent. Marked variation appears within each group. But it is evident from comparison of the median values and the ranges over which the percentages are scattered that what applies to the total is true generally. The upper and lower limits for both sexes are lower for the North Western European group than for the South, Eastern and Central Europeans, and the median values for the men are 58.7 p.c. as compared with 80.0 p.c. and for the women, 55:7 p.c. as against 83:3 p.c. These facts may be stated in terms of exogamous marriages as follows: While 16.2 p.c. of the men and 13.5 p.c. of the women of South, Eastern and Central European origin had married outside their respective groups; 33-3 p.c. of the men and 34-3 p.c. of the women of North Western European origin had done so. Thus about twice the proportion of mixed marriages had occurred in the case of the North Western Europeans. Further light is thrown cn the subject by Table 63, where the grouping is according to linguistic divisions. Attention is first directed to the males. The Slavs (85.2 p.c.) had married within their respective groups considerably more than the Latins and Greeks (77-8 p.c.); the percentage for the latter group is higher than that for the Germanic (70.8 p.c.) and that for the Germanic higher than that for the Scandinavian (57.3 p.c.). There is thus a wide spread between the figure of 57-3 p.c. for the Scandinavian group and that of 85.2 p.c. for the Slavs. Expressing the difference in terms of intermarriage, the pro- portions of the men of Scandinavian origin who had intermarried with other origins was 42-7 p.c. or nearly three times greater than that for the Slavs (14.8 p.c.) and twice that for the Latin and Greek group (22.2 p.c.). Similar differences obtain between the percentages for the women The figure for the women of Latin and Greek origin, however, is higher than that for the women of the Slavic stocks. As will be shown below, one reason for this is difference in sex distribution. There is a very lange surplus of men of Latin and Greek stocks in Canada, with the result that women of marriageable age are keenly sought after by their own countrymen. Clearly, then, assimilation by intermarriage has proceeded much farther with the North and Western Europeans than with the South, Eastern and Central Europeans, and with the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples than with the Latins and Greeks.

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