PROBLEMS OF RACE

Waipa Post, Volume 37, Issue 2191, 2 August 1928, Page 2

PROBLEMS OF RACE

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC FEATURES. The International Review of Missions for April provides a stimulating variety of articles upon current race problems, particularly in South Africa and China. Sir Frederick Why te, formerly president of the In,dian Legislative Assembly, and leader of the British group at the 1927 session of the Institute of Pacific Relations, is a leading contributor. He points out the significance of the work of such conferences as that held in Honolulu by the Institute of Pacific Relations, and in Jerusalem by the International Missionary Council. Discussing the difficulties of race which confronts both organisations, he concludes that in America and in Africa the social and economic features of the relationship between races predominate, while in India and China the political factor looms, largest. He considers that the so-called inferiority complex of the Asiatic is largely due to the impotent fury arising in him as he contemplates the European, whom he regards as his inferior in mind, calmly assuming political control of large regions of Asia by means of his superior knowledge of nature. A careful scientific survey of the field is an necessary preliminary to the presentation of an adequate solution. This question is further discussed in an article on, the race problem in South Africa, in which a strong plea is made for territorial segregation of the natives. Other writers deal with the changes in missionary policy in China the women's movement in India, work among South American students, and the growth of Islam in Malaya.