Word: rehoboth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...development of widely separated peoples, such as South America's Incas and Asia's Cambodians, were caused not by physical contact but by the psychological similarity of all men everywhere). He denigrates racial purists' illusions of superiority by citing, among others, the case of the "Rehoboth bastards," in which marriage and inbreeding between 18th century Boers and Hottentots resulted, he says, in a new "race" of people who were more successful, in terms of time and place, than either progenitor strain. They still exist, healthy, hardworking and prolific farmers, in Southwest Africa. Naturally enough, the apartheid-minded...