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English
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Germans in Tonga: A Look at Racial Integration and Relations in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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Honor's Thesis
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"German businessmen in Tonga during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries played an important role in the development of the islands. Despite general European racial prejudice towards colonized native people in most areas of the world, most of the German men married native women, raised mixed families, and eventually became fully immersed in Tongan culture. These actions defied anti-miscegenation laws in other areas of colonial German-Polynesia and are illustrative of a phenomenon suggesting totally amiable interracial relations between German and Tongan people in this time period. This thesis examines questions surrounding these relations and perceptions of both native and German people in Tonga around the turn of the century." [Author]