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All the great civilizations of the past became decadent because the originally creative race died out, as a result of contamination of the blood - Is he right?
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'All the great civilizations of the past became decadent because the originally creative race died out, as a result of contamination of the blood.' [Hitler 1939]. This from a man who so firmly believed in the ideal of the Aryan (Supreme) race that Germany's 700,000 Jews were tortured and tormented under his reign as Fuhrer from 1933 to 1945. Why this discrimination against this particular race of people? Is he right that people from other races are to be viewed differently? What is race? 'Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved to be correct. Politicians believe their prejudices have the sanction of genetic laws and the findings of physical anthropology to sustain them.' [Kevles 1986, p. 90]. The human population is largely categorized into 3 main races: Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid (white, Asian...
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