Word: racially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of this ignorance and indifference is the lack of resistance of even well-educated persons to various forms of propaganda which would have them conceive 'Americanism' in terms of class, party, sectional, racial, or religious affiliations," says the committee...
Last year Heidelberg University, from whose faculty Nazis had ousted 44 members for racial or political causes, provoked a frenzy of educational discussion by inviting its fellow universities over the world to attend its 550th anniversary celebration (TIME, March 16, 1936). Most British and many U. S. universities sorrowfully refused. Last week educators had a vexing question to decide all over again when they received invitations for the 200th anniversary celebration of the University of Gottingen to be held June...
Last week Commissioner Collier had more Indian news. With 3,500 more births than deaths each year, Indians are increasing at a more rapid rate than any other racial group in the U. S., he announced. Again, to the surprise of conclusion-jumpers, Commissioner Collier did not ascribe the increase to the redman's fecundity. Fewer deaths, not more births, accounted for the increase...
...Race is most often mouthed by those who claim superiority because of their lineage. Debased in this way, it remains "little more than a slogan of mass snobbery . . ." Absurd are those who boast of their "pure" racial ancestry; usually they call themselves "Nordics." There is probably not an unmixed Nordic in the world unless he exists in a remote part of Sweden or at the source of a Norwegian fjord, and even there he may have Mongoloid Lappish blood. To scientists a "pure race" is almost an abstraction; anyway, the greatest cultural achievements have been produced by racially mixed peoples...
...Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Dr. Shapiro is the first man to make a scientific study of the famous Pitcairn Island group, descendants of the mutineers of the "Bounty" and their Tahitian wives, whose marriages have provided modern science with a classic example of racial mixture...