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Chapter 24-Racism
Chapter 24 Flashcards: Ericka, Kyle, Kirsten
Question | Answer |
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racism | Belief that one racial group is superior to another; features of a race determine human character and worth. |
prejudice | An opinion or strong feeling formed without careful thought or regard to the facts. |
slavery | The state of being under the control of another person. |
Count Arthur de Gobineau | (1816-1882) Was the first French diplomat who enunciated the first important theory of race as the major determinant of human history. He claimed that the troubles in the Western civilization was due to the degeneration of the Aryan race. |
Houston Stewart Chamberlain | (1855-1927) Wrote "Foundations of the Nineteenth Century" that said modern day germans were the successors of the "Aryans", lower races are parasites. |
anti-semitic | To have hostility to Jews as individuals, to Judaism as a religion, to Jews as a group. |
Paul de Lagarde | (1827-1891) Writer in Germany who emphasized the supposed racial and cultural dangers posed by the Jews to German national life. |
Julius Langbehn | (1851-1907) Another writer in Germany who emphasized the supposed racial and cultural dangers posed by the Jews to German national life. |
emancipation | Freeing someone from the control of another. |
racial theory | the prestige associated with biology and science in general became transformed to racial thinking, whose advocates now clamied to possess a materialistic, scientific bais for their thought. |
dicrimination | treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than |
internationalism | international character, relations, cooperation, or control. |