“Tn actual experience results are what we should expect. The
offspring of mixed marriages are oftentimes practically indis-
tinguishable from Caucasians. The color distinction is the first
to break down. The Japanese hair and eye exert a stronger in-
fluence. So far as the observation of the writer goes, there is a
tendency to striking beauty in Americo-Japanese. The mental
ability, also, of the offspring of Japanese and white marriages
is not inferior to that of children of either race.

“In Tokyo there are not less than a score of families of mixed
marriages. The father, in most cases, was a student in some
foreign land for a number of years. He married a German,
English, French, or American girl and brought her home to Japan.
There, oppressed by no social disgrace, possessed of the finan-
cial and social ability to bring up the children to the best of his
knowledge, with the aid of his foreign wife to give what foreign

accomplishments he might not otherwise be able to provide, he is
disproving by his children the sinister predictions of race preju-

dice.

“There are also in Japan foreign gentleman who are rearing

   
 
   
    

Anglo-Japanese, German-Japanese, and Franco-Japanese.” * Then
Dr. Gulick goes giving his observations of some of these individ-
ual families and their children. Here in America, also, not a few
Japanese have married Americans. But in the West, “The race
antipathy evidenced by the instances cited above has done much
to cause and to perpetuate the clannishness of the Japanese immi-
grants. The feeling is also very general that marriage between
Japanese and white persons should be discouraged. In fact, the
strong popular sentiment in this connection has developed into a
definite legal prohibition of such unions in the State of California,

and has been strong enough in the other Western States to pre-

1 Gulick, Ibid., pp. 152-154.

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