Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-05-30
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HAWAIIAN RACE
BEING reborn
Infusion of Foreign Blood Rein
VigOrateS Inhabitants of
the Island.
KOREANS REFUSE TO MIX
Analysis of 1859 Marriages in the
Islands Reveals Some Surprises
to Science-Japanese Not Most
Prolific Race on Island.

Honolulu, T. H.-The Hawaiian
race. which with the Polynesians in
general, has been regarded as dying
| people, is being reborn and reinvig-
| grated by infusion of alien blood, ac-
/ cOrding to statistics just compiled by
Louis r. Sullivan of the New York
Museum of Natural History now at
| tached to the Bishop museum in
| Honolulu.
Mr.. Sullivan has just completed
analysis of 1859 marriages in the
| stands, selected at random, and his
| findings in some cases have been sur
| prises to science.
! According to the tables, more Ameri-
! Fan men in the territory marry wOm-
| en- of blood foreign to their own than
marry American or British women.
| The japanese are not, as has been
| supposed. the most prolific race in the
| Islands, but are surpassed in this re-
gard by Portuguese, Porto Ricans,
! oart-Hawaiians and Spanish. Of
| American women, more than one in
every six living in the islands marry
Hawaiians, part-Hawaiians and 9TH
! ers Of blood strange to their ancestry.
! OF all the racial groups the Korean
women represent the only one which
| refuses to mix blood, not a single case
Of a Korean woman marrying a man
othe@ than a Korean having been dis
covered.
A New Racial Group.
As whole, the tables indicate, the
part-Hawaiian group has Il tendency
to consolidate, rather than scatter,
| since of Caucasian-HaWaiian males
who marry. 32.7 per cent marry back
into the full-bloodcd Hawaiian strain,
while only 13.S per cent take white
wives. and the remainder, either in
breed among their own kind or marry
at large. OF Asiatic-HawaiiaA males,
1876 Ger cent marry back into the
| Hawaiian strain, only 1.3 into the
| Asiat3c strain and negligible pro-
portion into the Caucasian strain.
The result, so far as the Hawaiian
race Is concerned, is said TO he Il new
! racial group, fecund to a high degree,
! still abn0rmaIIy susceptible to civiliza-
| TONS diseases, but with much higher
resistant powers than the old Ha-
waiian stock and visibly adding to its
! numbers.
While the women of Korea lead all
| other males and females of the islands
| in marrying within their own race,
| there are other groups which are a
| close second in this respect. Only Oh
of one per cent of Japanese women
contract OUt-marriages, or unions with
men of other races, while OF of one
per cent of Japanese men so pick their
mates. The percentage for the Chi
| nese is 6 per cent for the women and
41.5 per cent for the men; American,
17.9 fer the women and 51.7 for the
men; Portuguese, 1873 women, 1910
men: Hawaiian. 4O.5 women, 1915 men.
Pure Stock Dies Fast.
The pure Hawaiian death rate is
the highest in the islands, 13.4S per
thousand annually, although the pure
Hawaiian birth rate is nearly twice as
high as American, British and other
whites.
Scientists recognize that suscepti-
bility to diseases of civilization is re-
sponsible for the disappearance of the
pure Hawaiian race, but the figures
Just made public by Mr.. Sullivan are
the first to show that the intermar-
rage is rebuilding the old race into a
stronger, more hardy people.