Word: caucasian
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...scores--a trait he says is largely inherited. And his work is only the latest of many. From early in the 19th century to the present, dozens of scientists have weighed brains, measured skulls, and tested millions, sometimes concluding that the African mind stood about midway between the Caucasian and gorilla in intelligence. Though studies of this kind are frowned upon today, the earlier results have filtered through to our culture and continue to form cultural beliefs today...
...some minorities also expected poorer academic performance by non-whites. The racist attitude appeared even though most polled students had had little ability to measure intelligence; cultural assimilation, not education, accounted for their views. Harvard students reflected an American conviction that other races are inherently less intelligent than the Caucasian...
...scientists in the 1800s. Samuel George Morton, who died in 1851 having collected more than 1000 skulls, tried to prove that a ranking of races could be established objectively by head size. By measuring the volume, which he assumed was directly correlated to intelligence, he hoped to show that Caucasian naturally should be the brightest of all races. He succeeded in his era; however, as Gould clearly demonstrates, Morton used his preconceived notions about race like any high school lab student, using only the data that fitted his thesis. Morton weighted unfairly the American Indian and African measurements by using...
...barbed wire, in the shadow of sentry towers. Parents wasting away in tar-paper camp shacks proudly displayed starred banners indicating that their sons were American soldiers. Nisei (second generation Japanese Americans) members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which fought gloriously in Europe, were sometimes required to have Caucasian escorts when they visited their interned families. (About 33,000 Japanese Americans served in the U.S. military during the war, some of them drafted right out of the camps.) After the war, many of the detainees found they had lost everything. Clarence Nishizu left his farm in the care...
...blame the influx of outsiders, which has increased the gap between rich and poor. Among the most downtrodden: the Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians. Those descendants of the islands' original Polynesian settlers make up less than 20% of the total population of 975,000. (Of the rest, 26% are Caucasian, 25% are of Japanese stock and the balance Filipino, Chinese and Korean, among other ethnic groups). Poorly educated and relegated for the most part to the lower rungs of the economic ladder, the Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians resent the immigrants, or malihinis, for dominating the political and commercial landscape...