Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placing all nations on the heart of her people, we should never have been bedevilled by the hideous pagan isolationism. . . . American Protestant Christianity [is] generally a one-class church. ... It is a sorry and alarming fact that Anglo-Saxon white Protestants seem to be imbued with more feeling of racial superiority and are guilty of more arrogant snobbery toward those of another color than any other people. The church has apparently not succeeded in inculcating humility in English-speaking whites...
...narrow, bigoted racial prejudice Americans of the type of those in Great Meadows take the prize...
...Scandinavians make up only 6.4% of Nebraska's population. Nebraskans pondering this phenomenon long ago came up with the answer. In Nebraska, Germans will not vote for Bohemians, and vice versa. Neither will Germans or Bohemians or Czechs vote for Irish, and vice versa. But all these racial groups can, with equanimity, vote for a Scandinavian. Also, and perhaps more important, in predominantly Protestant Nebraska, one certain way not to vote for a Catholic is to vote for a Scandinavian...
...finally, I have never heard the racial problem discussed with more judgment, discretion and frankness than in this ward...
...Once we rode up into the mountains to spend a weekend with a Tatar family in their hill yurt and had mare's milk and rode Kazak horses. Another day we went out to photograph all the local racial types-Chinese, White Russians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Uigurs, Manchus, Kazaks, So-lun. Each group decided to honor the visitors from America with a groaning banquet of its own foods in absolutely unrestrained Oriental quantities...