RACIAL DIFFERENCES
DEEP AND INERADICABLE. The more I see of Eastern races, and of Western races in the East —and I have suffered some notable additions to my fund of experience in this respect in the last few years—the more I feel that racial differences are deep and ineradicable, wrote Sir Arnold Wilson, M.P., who was killed on active service some months ago. The obvious differences are superficial: the real ones are beneath the surface and create abysmal antipathies. Indians are less at home in Persia than Europeans. Education makes nations more conscious and indeed proud of their peculiar traditions and characteristics, which it tends to accentuate; it makes the points of difference sharper and harder to conceal. Attempts to inculcate Western ideas in an Eastern environment must fail unless the ideas suffer a metamorphosis so complete that the new synthesis is unrecognisable.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1941, Page 7
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143RACIAL DIFFERENCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1941, Page 7
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