ship, for which discrimination no adequate cause exists, is of the
nature of insult in itself. To shut out because they have been
insulted once adds doubly to a humiliation they have no power to
resent, but which they hope their nearest friends among the na-
tions will not offer them.” + Professor Millis says, “Acceptable in-
dividuals of any race living here should be able to become citi-
zens.” 2 Dr. Gulick holds, “American citizenship should be based
on individual qualification. Race of itself alone should not be
a disqualification for citizenship.”* “Japanese individuals who
have taken the required course of education for citizenship and
are ready, on the one hand, to renounce openly their allegiance
to Japan and, on the other, to take oath of allegiance to the
United States would, without doubt, make as loyal Americans
as those who come from any other land.” * In other words, change
the naturalization law, and then one of the insurmountable ob-
stacles to assimilation is forever removed.

But how about intermarriage? Some hold that intermarriage
is not essential to assimilation. But granting that it is essential,
let us inquire somewhat on a broader basis as to this interesting
subject of intermarriage between the Japanese and the Americans. |
“The intermarriage of whites and Japanese is not analogous to that
of whites and Negroes. Caucasians and Japanese are, to begin
with, much closer. The Japanese race already contains consider-
able white blood. Many a Japanese of high social rank could
easily pass for an Italian or Spaniard. Furthermore, the two
races have lived under the same general climatic conditions for
over two thousand years in the north temperate zone. Their
general civilizational development, likewise, have been strikingly
parallel. Both have experienced no little social discipline—if any-}
thing, the discipline of the Japanese being more severe than that:
of the Europeans. Both possess highly developed industrial and|
political institutions. ¢

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1 D. S. Jordan, What Shall We Say? p. 70.
2 Millis, Ibid., p. 308.

3 Gulick, The American and Japanese problem, pp. 292-293.
4 Ibid.

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