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own government and institutions to be influenced by the foreigners staying in the country for five years or over, and this "free door policy" of theirs adds to their assimilative powers.

What is meant by the increase of assimilative power? It means making other people more like one's own, and preparing the mind of one's own people for the acceptance of the foreigners into one's own social group. It requires preparation on both sides. Foreigners and natives both need to be educated. Again, the preparation for one means preparation for the other. If the foreigners become easily like the natives, then the prejudice of the native towards the foreigner becomes greatly less. On the other hand, if the natives or the dominant community are willing to extend the membership of that community, socially and politically, to the foreigner, then the foreigner has greater incentive to adopt the ways and manners of the native. or the dominant community. The greater the increase of the assimilative power, the less becomes the friction.

What is the ultimate end of the territorial system with free migration? It is this. Man will be more individualistic. He will be able to choose his own nationality irrespective of his birth. He will identify himself with the interest of the territorial community he resides in. There will be a great deal of similarity among people all over the world, which will enable a man born in one community to adopt the civilization of other communities in the world. The physical differences among men will also be either less or of less consequence. Inter-marriage will take place among all nations, religions and races. The social relations of the peoples in the world will thus be greatly simplified.

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