A study of natio-racial mental differences / by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch.

  • Hirsch, Nathaniel David Mttron, 1896-
Date:
[1926], ©1926
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Credit: A study of natio-racial mental differences / by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NATIO-RACIAL MENTAL DIFFERENCES 395 one of the most hopeful signs on the horizon of the American people today. This law, holding to July 1st, 1927, should be extended for at least a twenty-year period. But that part of the law which has to do with the non-quota immigrants should be modified so as to place the non-quota immigrants coming from Canada, Newfoundland, Mexico, Cuba, etc., under the quota laws that hold for European immigrants. All mental testing upon children of Spanish-Mexican descent has shown that the average intelligence of this group is even lower than the average intelligence of the Portuguese and Negro chil¬ dren among the groups used in this study. Yet Mexicans are flowing into the country, only a small proportion of whom are recorded. The Mexicans who have been recorded as entering the United States yearly since 1912 are— 1912 23,238 1913 11,926 1914 14,614 1915 12,340 1916 18.425 1917 17,869 1918 18.524 1919 29,819 1920 52,361 1921 30,758 We have records of more 'than 300,000 Mexicans who have entered the United States since 1895, and a very con¬ servative estimate would place the number of Mexicans re¬ siding in the United States today at 600,000. In another decade there will be more than 1,000,000 persons of Mexican, (Spanish, Indian, Negro) descent in the United States if the immigration law is not extended (and enforced) to include Mexico. Prior to 1890 the Canadian immigration to the United States was negligible. By 1900 the United States census