The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-09-10
MONGOL AND
POLYNESlAN
Why Some Chinese Blood Benefits
the Native Hawaiian
People.

one VINO mas NNeu long III HAWAII mas
often superior TO the ADLER Chinese race
opportunity to observe some remark
able conditions peculiar TO these ISL
ands. One of these Is the strangely
valuable result of the crossing of the
two very diverse breeds of men, the
Polynesan and the Chinaman. There
are now considerable numbers here of
the offspring of Cinnamon by native
Hawaiian women. AS q general rule,
such persons are apt to possess
marked superiority of personal force
and ability. They are vastly super
ior to the native Hawaiian. They are
from whom they derive their strongest
qualities. In the admixture each race
seems to have made a greatly needed
contribution TO the qualities of the
other one.
What does the Chinese blood contrib
ute to the Hawaiian? Much more. We
should say, and Of greater value than
1t takes from the latter. The Chinese
blood lends to the Hawaiian a most
remarkable strain of the qualities Of o
profoundly developed and trained civil
ization inGrained into the Chinaman
by. at least 5000 years of tense and
arduous existence in densely crowded
communities where the struggle to live
has necessitated the extreme of frugal
ity on the one hand. and of carefully
directed labor on the other. The China
man, ncomparably beyond all other
human races Is pervaded through and
through by habits grown hereditary
and Instructive, Of patient. unremittinc
toll of carefully and exactly ordered
occupation, OF precision, of promptn.ss,
of punctuality. of conformity to rule
and law.
In all these qualities so intensely de
veloped in the Chinaman, the Hawaiian
is deplorably lacking. His race has for
unknown thousands of years, led an
easy, simple life, following the impulses
of the hour He is nearly incapable
of hard, continuous. unremittins toll.
He is fitful. disorderly. unreliable. He
Is by nature averse to .exactness. to
promptitude, to punctuality. II care
fully taught any process. he viii
diverge from it at an early moment,
while the Chinaman once shown a
method to follow, will never change il,
even if a change is obviously neces-
sary. 1t has been pertinently said thai
"a Hawaiian cannot plant a straight
row of beans, while a Chinaman can
not plant crooked one"
These remarkably developed gifts of
character, the Chinaman usually inn
parts in very high degree to his half
Hawaiian offspring, who is apt to be
much more Chinese than Hawaiian in
his nature. At Lahainaluna Seminary
many years ago. We had several boys
of mixed blood as house servants.
None of them knew a word of Chinese.
or ever saw their Chinese fathers. Yet
in every case they fully possessed the
Chinese eNactness. precision and indus
try, in the strongest contrast to our
easy going Hawaiian youths. The
Chinese strain is 50 intense that it
imparts itself with immense power to
the undeveloped Hawaiian nature.
on the other hand, the Hawaiian
blood lends a very important service to
.he Chinese strain. 1t makes the off
spring less mechanical, less paraiyzed
by custom, more capable of looking for
and accepting what is new The mixed
man is more receptive man. He is
holder and freer He is more capable
of Initiative. of conceiving and working
for what is new, than is the pure
Chinaman, whose nature is bound and
chained i'm the letters of ages of habit.
The Hawaiian is by nature brave, bold,
generous; the mixed offspring is
drawer, more enterprlsing man than
the pure Monaghan. He will be bet
ter soldier, a better seaman. a better
whaleman, and probably not inferior TO
his parent as artisan or BRIDESMAID
The Friend.
w. F. Reynolds, of Waiohinu, dis
trict of Kau. Hawaii. having received