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THE MENTOR 1917.11.01, No. 142, Bolivia
LEARN ONE THING EVERY DAY
NOVEMBER 1 1917 SERIAL NO. 142
THE MENTOR
BOLIVIA
DEPARTMENT OF VOLUME 5 TRAVEL NUMBER 18
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The Native Bolivian
His morality is what it was, in theory and practice, four centuries ago. He neither loves nor hates, but fears, the white man, and the white man neither loves nor hates, but despises him; there being some fear mingled with the contempt. Intermarriage between pure Indians and pure Europeans is very uncommon. They are held together neither by social relations nor by political, but by the need which the white landowner has for the Indian's labor and by the power of long habit, which has made the Indian acquiesce in his subjection as a rent payer.
Neither of them ever refers to the Spanish Conquest. The white man does not honor the memory of Pizarro; to the Indian the story is too dim and distant to affect his mind. Nor is it the least remarkable feature of the situation that the mestizo, or half-breed, forms no link between the races. He prefers to speak Spanish which the Indian rarely understands. He is held to belong to the upper race, which is, for social and political purpose, though not by right of numbers, the Peruvian or Bolivian nation.
JAMES BRYCE.
From "South America, Observations and Impressions."
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