(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The idea that the Nordies enjoy a superiority over other races is unscientific, declared Professor R. D. McKenzie, leading a round table discussion on population problems of the Pacific at the Institute of Politics in session here.
The white peoples he said do enjoy a superior technical culture but once Orientals acquire the scientific spirit it is evident that they will equal the white.
“The Nordic,” he said, “happened to be the first to use mechanical energy and just happened to have the resources of energy and he then got the lead over the rest of the world in the Nineteenth Century and that has given him the ‘big head.’ “
In Professor McKenzie’s view what are ordinarily called racial differences are in reality only cultural or environmental differences and in this he was supported by a lively discussion among other members of his conference.
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