Intermarriage in New York City Volume 213; A Statistical Study of the Amalgamation of European Peoples (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...16.73 Finland 16.82 Russia (Polish) 20.25 Ireland 21.59 Germany (not located) 21.68 Greece 22.14 Hungary (German) 24.41 Class IV (25 to 49.99 intermarriages per 100 marriages) Nationality No. of Intermarriages per 100 Marriages Austria (Bohemian) 25.15 Sweden 31.04 Spain 33.11 Germany (combined groups) 33.34 Norway 39.14 British West Indies (English) 39.86 Denmark 47.42 France 49.55 tificates, have been omitted in this classification: Cuba (colored), Canada (colored), Roumania, Austria (Italian), China, Switzerland (Italian), Mexico (Spanish), Serbia. Class V (SO to 100 intermarriages per 100 marriages.) Nationality No. of Intermarriages per 100 Marriages Porto Rico (Spanish) 50.76 Germany (North) 53.05 Germany (South) 55.98 Wales 59.44 Belgium 59.63 Austria (German) 59.71 Scotland 59.79 Holland 62.58 England 62.70 Switzerland (German) 66.32 Japan 72.41 Cuba (Spanish) 73.73 Canada (French) 75.60 Canada (English) 79.85 Switzerland (French) 82.08 Portugal 88.23 Even a casual inspection of this table reveals at once distinct groupings at either end of the scale. Jews and Negroes are at the lowest point, while the Northern, Northwestern and Central European peoples tend to gather near the highest point. The Italians and the Irish, together with the Poles (Russian and Austrian), the Slovaks, the Greeks and the Finns, occupy the middle-ground. This distribution with slight modifications was found to hold for both men and women, and for both the first and the second generations." In an exhaustive treatment of the problems of amalgamation each one of the ethnic groups in the five classes shown in Table IVa would be taken up for discussion separately. This is not feasible here because of the limitations of cost and space. The discussion which follows is therefo...