ANGLO-INDIANS
Sir,—Where your correspondent "Monitor" gains his information from is a source of worry to me. His interest in tho future of New Zealand is to be admired, but his confusing of AngloIndian and Eurasian is to bo deplored. The average retired Indian civil servant or army officer must have been quite upset on reading "Monitor's" letter, and I sympathise with them. Would not the average New Zealander resent,it, if the appellation of "New Zealander" gave tho peoples of other lands the impression that the claimant was probably dark-skinned and had a mixture of English-Slav-Maori blood in him? So with the Anglo-Indian, whoso ancestors went out to India and naturally became "Englishmen in India," hence Anglo-Indian. Whereas tho Eurasian is the name given to the offspring of European and Asiatic unions, whether they be English and Indian, Russian and Chinese, German and Japanese, in fact there are numerous combinations in which Eurasian would not be misused. . Englishman.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 17
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