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RACE
~ RACE id+ | RACE is about TRACE and TRACES | ^u id+ | THAT WHICH SETS APART as in SEGREGATE | id+ | RUSH A CAREER COMPETITION | id+ | RACE RACISM serve NATIONALISTIC NOTIONS | myth> according to classic mythology THE RACES OF MAN ARE FOUR see> GOLD AGE see> SILVER see> BRONZE see> IRON sug> also consider STRAIN and STRANGER ply> | A RACE MAY CONSTRAIN OR PLACE STRAINS ON STRANGERS | ply> | RACE IS DEFINED BY TRAITS or TRACES OF GENETIC or CULTURAL TRAITS OFTEN EXPLOITED TO OSTRACIZE ALIENATING STRANGERS | ply> | RATE or FREQUENCY of TRAITS UNDERSCORE RACIAL TRACES or TRAITS OF RACES but RATIONING RACES IS RARELY RATIONAL | RACE STRAIN and TRACE relate via SIGN or VESTIGE or REMNANT as CLUES THAT TRACE A RELIC or VARIATION or NUANCE of DEGREE useful as an INDEX or TRACE or RACE or TRAIT sp RAZA = RACE or LINEAGE RAYO RAY more below LINEA LINE TRAZA SKETCH PROSPECT TRAIL SCRATCH lat TRAHERE TO DRAW ALONG WITH FORCE sp TRAER TO BRING TRAJIN JOB TASK TRAJE SUIT FASHION FIT TAILOR lat TRACTARE JOB as in making FURROWS as in TRACES sug> TRACTOR also leads to INTRACTABLE TREATMENT MALTREATMENT ABSTRACT ATTRACT CONTRACT CONTRACTURE DETRACT DISTRACT EXTRACT RETRACT PROTRACT PORTRAIT PORTRAY RETREAT SUBTRACT see> CONTRACT TRACTUS TRAIT see> MENDEL sp TRACTO TRACT ply> | RACIAL TRAITS TAILOR and sug> PATH TRACE A RACE | sug> PATHOLOGY TRANGULA TRAILER sug> TRAIL TRAHINARE TRAIN TRAINER see> INGRAIN TRAZO TRACE or GROOVE or LINE TRAZA TRACE RAZON REASON sug> RATIO RATIONAL ukr RATZIA REASON RIGHT sug> CORRECT sp RALEZA denotes A MARK or FLAW as in " SCRATCH or SCRATCH OUT " from RAYA for A RAY or FLAWED LINE ON CLOTH due to A MISSING or BAD THREAD as in sp GENERO = CLOTH GENERAR sug> GENDER GENESIS RAYO RAY RAYA SCRATCH LINE RAYADO in vern> FLAWED or " CRAZY " as if " MENTALLY SCRATCHED" lat RADIUS RAY LINE RATIO REASON A CAUSE DESIGN CONDITION also A WAY or MANNER FASHION CONDITION RECKONING ACCOUNT sug> RAY RUN RACE RATE RATIONAL RACIAL RATIO and RAYON note most current implications of RACE are political as in ETHNIC LINEAGE NATIONALITY in biology " STRAIN " see> RACISM NATIVISM NATION STATE NATIONALISM myth> from HESIOD [#] to OVID [#] CLASSIC MYTHOLOGY PRESENTS IDEAS OF THE REGRESSIVE NATURE OF HUMAN RACIAL EVOLUTION or its DEGRADATION FROM A GOLDEN RACE TO THE CURRENT IRON RACE RULED NOW BY PASSION GREED LUST and DISHARMONY for poetic renditions see> ~ AGE sug> BREED STOCK STRAIN ETHNIC lit+ AMONG THE OLDEST SOURCES SHOWING THE " GENETIC " NATURE OF RACISM consider THE OLD TESTAMENT WHEN JEHOVAH MADE A COMPACT WITH ABRAHAM TO BE " HIS SEED " [78] sug> TRIBE " CURSED BE CANAAN ... A SERVANT OF SERVANTS SHALL HE BE ..." sug> SERVILE lit+ ST PAUL AND OTHER EARLY CHRISTIANS DISPUTED RACISM " THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK ... YE ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS ... HE HATH MADE OF ONE BLOOD ALL NATIONS OF MEN ... " note A MODERN TYPE OF RACISM EMERGED IN THE XVth CENTURY AS CHRISTIANS WERE EXPELLING ARABS AND JEWS FROM SPAIN BUT THE LACK OF CRISP WORDING TO EXPRESS MODERN POLITICAL IDEATIONS OF " RACE RACISM " SUPPORTS THE VIEW THAT THESE " IDEA WORDS " ARE OF A RELATIVELY NEW VINTAGE note from sp the sequence RAYA RAYADO RAZA RACIAL SLAVERY THE DEMAND FOR SLAVES FOR THE SUGAR PLANTATIONS EMERGING IN THE NEWLY DISCOVERED " AMERICA " LED TO THE ENSLAVING OF BLACK AFRICANS MOSTLY BY ENTERPRENEURS BASED IN ENGLAND AND HOLLAND lit+ in the BIBLE some found a RATIONAL FOR RACISM and see> SLAVERY IN NOATHS CURSE related to note HAM FINDS NOAH NAKED AND DRUNK ASLEEP IN HIS BED IN HIS TENT HE TELLS HIS BROTHERS SHALEM AND JAPHETH WHO COVER THEIR FATHER LATER NOAH CURSED HAM'S SON CANAAN SAYING HE WILL BE A "SERVANT OF SERVANTS" THE SLAVERS INTERPRETED THE ABOVE AS HAM ACTED DISHONORABLY AND SLAVERY IS LIFE DISHONORED sug> GENESIS 9 20-27 note> ONE MODERN TERM FOR USA SOUTHERN STATES THAT SUSTAINED SLAVERY IS TO REFER TO THE REGION AS THE "BIBLE BELT" WHERE THE "PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH" SYSTEM IS THE STRONGEST cont> see> SLAVE lit+ David HUME [#] wrote " I AM INCLINED TO BELIEVE THAT NEGROES ARE NATURALLY INFERIOR TO WHITES ... " also note A REACTION sug> RENAISSANCE REFORM CULMINATING IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS WHICH FOUND THEORETICAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE USA CONSTITUTION WHILE SLAVERY ENDURED lit+ Michel MONTAIGNE [#] 1533-1592 SAID ABOUT BRAZILIAN INDIANS " ... THERE IS NOTHING SAVAGE OR BARBAROUS ... SAVE ... THAT EACH OF US LABELS WHATEVER IS NOT AMONG THE CUSTOMS OF HIS OWN PEOPLE AS BARBARISM ... " note F VOLTAIRE [#] JJ ROUSSEAU [#] and G L BUFFON [#] WHO SUPPORTED THE VIEW OF THE " FUNDAMENTAL ONENESS OF HUMAN NATURE " however THE FRENCH REVOLT ALSO FIRED EUROPEAN NATIONALISMS in France Arthur de GOBINEAU [#] FORMULATED THE DOCTRINE OF " ARIANISM " LATER ENTHUSIASTICALLY ENDORSED AND SPREAD BY Richard WAGNER [#] note his HEROIC OPERA CHARACTERS lit+ in ENGLAND Houston Stewart CHAMBERLAIN [#] THE SON IN LAW OF R WAGNER [#] PROPAGATED THE IDEA OF TEUTONIC SUPERIORITY AND WROTE " TEUTONS ARE THE ARISTOCRACY OF HUMANITY ... LATINS ARE A DEGENERATE POPULATION " also Herbert SPENCER [#] 1820-1903 USED THE PRINCIPLES EMANATING FROM THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION BY DARWIN AND APPLIED SUCH IDEAS TO SOCIOLOGY TO EMPHASIZE SURVIVAL or WEALTH AS A SIGNAL OF " FITTEST " WHICH PROVIDED A BASIS FOR " SOCIAL DARWINISM " sug> CHILD LABOR UTILITARIAN BENTHAM MARX COMMUNISM MUCH OF THE ABOVE WAS SYNTHESIZED AND ELABORATED BY Friedrich Wilhelm NIETZSCHE [#] 1844-1900 TO OUTLINE THE IDEAL "SUPERMAN" WHICH PROVIDED THE FOUNDATIONS DISTORTED BY POLITICAL DOGMAS PROPOSING RACIAL SUPERIORITIES AS FOUND IN ARYANISM NORDICISM GERMANISM ANGLO SAXONISM CELTICISM and many NATIONALISTIC MOVEMENTS as in PANSLAVISM ZIONISM etc NAZI GERMANY AND OTHERS IMPLEMENTED RACIAL IDEAS TO JUSTIFY EUTHANASIA sug> JUSTICE LAW LEGAL THE DEMENTED MALFORMED MENTALLY RETARDED and SOON AFTER INFERIOR "RACES" WERE "EUTHANIZED" in particular THOSE BORN AS A GYPSY SLAV or JEW sug> HOLOCAUST sug> LENZ GULAG BERIA BABIJ YAR NATIONALISM AND RACISM OFTEN BECOME INTERTWINED sug> HUMAN RIGHTS or THE RIGHTS OF MAN sug> SLAVE SLAVERY MARCH OF TEARS ACADIA CAJUN TATAR lit+ note in a 15 point MANIFESTO [78] key ideas are presented " SCIENTISTS HAVE REACHED GENERAL AGREEMENT IN RECOGNIZING THAT MANKIND IS ONE THAT ALL MEN BELONG TO THE SAME SPECIES ... {but} FROM THE BIOLOGIC STANDPOINT ... MADE UP OF A NUMBER OF POPULATIONS EACH ONE ... DIFFERS FROM THE OTHERS IN THE FREQUENCY OF ONE OR MORE GENES ... RACE ... MAY BE DEFINED AS ONE OF THE GROUP OF POPULATIONS CONSTITUTING THE SPECIES HOMO SAPIENS ... THESE POPULATIONS ARE CAPABLE OF INTERBREEDING ... THESE REPRESENT VARIATIONS ... ON A COMMON THEME ... UNFORTUNATELY ... MOST PEOPLE USE THE TERM "RACE" ... NOT IN THE SENSE ... ABOVE DEFINED ... TO MOST PEOPLE A RACE IS ANY GROUP OF PEOPLE WHOM THEY CHOOSE TO DESCRIBE AS A RACE ... THUS MANY NATIONAL RELIGIOUS GEOGRAPHIC LINGUISTIC OR CULTURAL GROUPS HAVE ... BEEN CALLED "RACE" ..." [78] " THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC BASIS WHATSOEVER FOR A GENERAL CLASSIFICATION OF RACES ACCORDING TO A SCALE OF RELATIVE SUPERIORITY ... " [78] note A MEETING OF EXPERTS IN GENETICS ENDOCRINOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY and even in ANIMAL BEHAVIOR MET IN JUNE 1995 IN THE AUSTRIAN TOWN OF SCHLAINING TO REVIEW THE SCIENTIFIC VALIDITY OF THE CONCEPT OF RACE AS FORMERLY HELD BY THE NAZI MOVEMENT WHICH ADOPTED THE VIEW THAT RACE IS A DISCRETE FACT BASED ON 19th CENTURY ANTHROPOLOGIC MEASURMENTS OF PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES THE EXPERTS NOTED THAT MOLECULAR GENETIC FACTS SHOW THAT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HUMANS ARE QUITE GRADUAL AND CONCLUDED "CATEGORIZATION OF HUMANS ... IS ARTIFICIAL AND ENCOURAGES ... MISLEADING SOCIAL PERCEPTIONS ... " on the other hand political clout and benefits sustaining the USA AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ideas drive the demand for collection of sense free data and force most employers and schools to classify people in categories such as AFRICAN AMERICAN probably not meant for Egyptians ASIAN AMERICAN meant for undefined admixtures CHICANO or MEXICAN AMERICAN meant for non European descent PUERTO RICAN not meant for Anglos born there NATIVE AMERICAN not meant for all native USA citizens note that some consider the idea of " corrective or assertive or affirmative action" programs to be " REVERSE RACISM " note that the manipulation of ETHNIC CLASSROOM COMPOSITION or " SCHOOL QUOTAS " were known in NAZI GERMANY as " NUMERUS CLAUSUS " note " RACE CONSCIOUSNESS AND RACE BLINDNESS ARE MUTUALLY INCOMPATIBLE " see above introduction to the term RACE STRICTLY it denotes GENETIC DIFFERENCES in humans THE EMPHASIS IS ON TRAITS OF SKIN COLOR and MANY GENE MARKERS LIKE BLOOD TYPE etc ANTHROPOLOGISTS ADD TO BIOLOGIC MARKERS CULTURAL CRITERIA mostly LINGUISTICS note how the terms " STRAIN or VARIETY " apply mostly to NON HUMAN ANIMALS ETHNOLOGISTS PROPOSE HUMAN BRANCHES LOOSELY DEFINED TO ACCOMMODATE VOGUES or MODERN MODES as in CAUCASIAN formerly " WHITISH " now " WHITE " NEGROID for "ALL COLORED" " AFRICAN DESCENT " MONGOLOID "YELLOW" " ASIAN " INDIAN AMERICAN INDIAN " NATIVE AMERICAN " note "HISPANIC" which in fact does not APPLY TO SPAIN but increasingly implies SPANISH SPEAKING and NON EUROPEAN LIKE THE ABOVE FOSTERS A LOT OF NONSENSE med> MEDICAL DICTIONARIES SPEAK OF RACE in terms of ETHNIC STOCK in NON HUMAN ANIMALS ETHNIC STOCK may be BREED or STRAIN sug> NATION PEOPLE ETHNIC GENOCIDE BIGOT IQ INTELLIGENCE CREOLE PSYCHOSIS note BENJAMIN FRANKLIN under ANGLO SAXON cont> see> RACISM cont> in addenda see> ~& RACE |