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and have broad faces. (See Fig. 11). They have intermarried partly among
themselves and partly with Swedes, and owing to this a great many mixed types
have arisen. (See Plates XIX—XX). The descendants of these Walloons who
have now spread themselves over the whole country, probably amount some tens
of thousands.
The Jews are another foreign race who began to settie in Sweden during the
latter part of the eighteenth century. They consist of only a few thousand. The
same remarks apply to them as to the Walloons, some of them preserve the pu*
rity of the race, while others intermarry with the Swedes. The Swedish Jews
stand in a relatively, high position. Fig. 10 shows a Jew of pure type.
Lastly we must mention that there are a smaller number of gipsies (Fig. 12)
to be found in Sweden.
The so=called Tattars often the offspring of gipsies are to be found at the
present time in many parts of the country. They are unfortunately in no slight
degree criminally disposed proletarians of very mixed origin.
The presence of these foreign races as well as the continual influx of people
of different nations cannot be without importance to the character of our race
both from a biological as well as a cultural point of view. They are not enti*
rely favourable.
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The Swedish nations whole numbers are beetwen 7, and 8 millions of people,
of which about 6 millions are found in Sweden, 370,000 in Finland and something
more than 100,000 in other European countries. Rather more than a million have
found new homes in America, the principal number of these in U. S. A. It is
a remarkable circumstance that Swedes who have emigrated to America and Western
Europe and very soon become absorbed in and mixed with their hosts, contrary
to Finns and Russians, build a national unit which tenaciously retains its vital
power for hundreds of years and more.
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