ABSTRACT
The contrast between European and East Asiatic civilizations was striking, until the Japanese began to introduce European patterns. Still greater appeared the contrasts between Europeans, native Australians, African Negroes and American Indians. It is, therefore, but natural that much thought has been given to the problem of the interrelation between race and culture. The differences of cultural outlook and of bodily appearance have given rise to antagonisms that are rationalized as due to instinctive racial antipathies. The bodily forms of Italians may serve as an example. The two most strongly contrasting types in Italy are the Piemontese and the Sardinians. Biologically speaking, this is an unjustifiable assumption. Extreme forms are not necessarily pure racial types. The children of each couple represent the hereditarily transmitted qualities of their ancestors. Such a group of brothers and sisters is called a fraternity.
