MIXING RACES

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 146, 21 June 1923, Page 7

MIXING RACES

"WHY HORROR-STRUCK?"

SYDNEY PROFESSOR'S ADVICE

THE LESSON OF EUROPE.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (Received 21st June, 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Professor Griffith-Taylor, of Sydney University, lecturing before the Millions Club on ethnological problems, asked "Why are we so horror-stricken at any suggestion of marriage with Mongolians? If it is necessary to admit cultured Mongolians into Australia in the future why dread it? There are Asiatic peoples of precisely the same races as ourselves, and though the result of the union would be a half-caste race it would be in no way inferior to either of the parent races." A White Australia policy was very sound in the early stages of a young Commonwealth, but it would not be a good thing for our grandchildren to have made bitter enemies of the yellow races. He asked thinking men to realise that tho admission of a small proportion of Asiatics to Australia might not be a calamity, and pointed out that more than half the people of Europe are of Asiatic origin, and closely allied with the Northern Chinese. Experience proved that given time enough the different ■ nationalities could mix and produce a satisfactory and progressive nation ■