The ethnic
authorities at Washington make the following racial division, which is
used in the official reports:
[Sidenote: Race Classification]
"Ninety-five per cent. of the immigration to this country comes from
Europe. Most of these different races or peoples, or more properly
subdivisions of race, coming from Europe have been grouped into four
grand divisions, as follows:
"Teutonic division, from northern Europe: German, Scandinavian,
English, Dutch, Flemish, and Finnish.
"Iberic division, from southern Europe: South Italian, Greek,
Portuguese, and Spanish: also Syrian from Turkey in Asia.
"Celtic division, from western Europe; Irish, Welsh, Scotch,
French, and North Italian.
"Slavic division, from eastern Europe: Bohemian, Moravian,
Bulgarian, Servian, Montenegrin, Croatian, Slovenian, Dalmatian,
Bosnian, Herzegovinian, Hebrew, Lithuanian, Polish, Roumanian,
Russian, Ruthenian, and Slovak.
"The Mongolic division has also been added, to include Chinese,
Japanese, Korean, East Indian, Pacific Islander, and Filipino.
"Under 'all others' have been included Magyar, Turkish, Armenian,
African (black), and subdivisions native to the Western
Hemisphere.
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