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  Racial purity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Racial purity is the belief that people of different race should not intermarry or reproduce, purportedly to protect the "purity" of one or both races.
Racial mixing is manifest in the stereotype of the exotic foreigner.
Opponents of racial purity cite the presence of sexual attraction towards foreigners as a manifestation of sexual selection, indicating heterosis as a positive genetic factor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Racial_purity   (1233 words)

  
 Racial purity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The concept of racial purity is associated the belief that the various races of mankind should be kept "pure" by not permitting interbreeding.
Some eugenics proponents in the US also considered preserving racial purity a goal of eugenics, to be reached by restricting immigration and banning inter-racial marriage.
While some people want to preserve the "racial purity", others think that, quite contrary, it is desirable to increase genetic diversity of human populations, arguing that it would increase the range of talents available to society.
www.portstlucie.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Racial_purity   (261 words)

  
 Porajmos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Given the Nazi predilection for "racial purity," it would seem inevitable that the Roma would be among their first victims.
The Gypsy language Romany is one of the Indo-Aryan languages, originating in northern India.
After extensive fieldwork in the spring of 1936, consisting of interviews and medical examinations to investigate genealogical and genetic data, it was determined that most Roma posed a danger to German racial purity and should be eliminated.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Porajmos   (1221 words)

  
 Essay Number: 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The organization of the argument of this paper is not particularly imaginative since this writer “lists” elements in a strictly sequential order, but he or she demonstrates familiarity with a wide range of documents and concepts of the Reader while working closely with the specific language of the document he or she is presenting.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, purity is defined as "freedom from any foreign or extraneous element" and "freedom from moral corruption, from ceremonial or sexual uncleanness." The Third Commandment instructs the reader to "keep your body pure." This discourages drug and alcohol usage, requiring the body to be free from foreign substances.
Purity in this sense involves abstaining from sexual activity and conforming to the government's definition of sex as an act of procreation and not recreation.
eee.uci.edu /faculty/losh/essaysixsamples.htm   (10701 words)

  
 Race and Policy
“Purity” in racial matters means inclusiveness of the entire population within the same historical feeling and cosmic beat.
The stronger the racial instincts of the population, the greater its promise of victory.
The aim of Policy is to actualize our Western Imperium— whoever introduces racial theories of materialistic provenance, whether in the name of “tolerance,” which means we should abandon our instincts, or in the name of “racial purity,” which means we should abandon our Cultural unity, is prolonging the crisis and division of the West.
www.solargeneral.com /SG/imperium/imp41.html   (3226 words)

  
 nathangibbs.com » Self-Portrait   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Historically, when ideas of racial purity have been pursued by institutions of power, it has devastated entire populations.
Lifting racial purity to an ideal has led to the oppression and genocide of millions of people worldwide.
As a person of mixed racial heritage, I identify with the oppression inherent in the idea of racial purity.
www.nathangibbs.com /self-portrait   (1874 words)

  
 An SS Booklet on Racial Policy
The foundation of the Christian worldview is the doctrine of the separation of body and soul; the soul and spirit belong to a world independent of the physical, free of natural laws, and they are even to a certain degree able to free the human body from its natural setting.
It is a major shift when racial theory recognizes the unity of body, soul and spirit and sees them as a whole that follows the eternal laws of nature.
This racial manifesto clearly recognizes the biological differences between the human races, and draws the necessary conclusions from that scientific knowledge.
www.calvin.edu /academic/cas/gpa/rassenpo.htm   (4320 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Racial purity
This belief is associated with racism, and attempted biological justifications for this concept are now regarded as entirely unscientific by some such as Stephen Jay Gould, whilst other such as Richard Lynn have supported the scientific merit of the idea.
Some eugenics proponents in the US also considered preserving racial purity a goal of eugenics, to be reached by restricting immigration and banning Interracial marriage.
It is far from unknown for the leaders of real-life "racial purity" groups to have less than perfect racial credentials themselves; Hitler, for example, was not tall and blond (the Aryan ideal) but short and dark-haired.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Racial_purity   (946 words)

  
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  I should also note that the Vienna Philharmonic's racial ideology is much more difficult to write about than their gender bias, since it is difficult to document, and since the topic is extremely volatile and has to be addressed with sensitivity and care.
Due to the Vienna Philharmonic's long history of racial and ethnic ideology, it was easily appropriated and transformed into one of the most active orchestras for the support of National Socialism.
In summary, the orchestra's ethnic and racial ideologies allowed it to concentrate and institutionalize beliefs that were common in Germany and Austria decades before the Anschluss, and this made the Philharmonic an easy and willing target for National Socialist appropriation.
www.osborne-conant.org /purity.htm   (3171 words)

  
 Race, Evolutionary Biology and the Kingdom of Heaven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The concept of "racial purity" as an ideal is a racist illusion based on ignorance of genetic facts.
Ideology: Racial identities serve to organize interests and channel political and cultural activities; as long as principles of pluralism and tolerance are upheld, a certain degree of group identity and racial mobilization can be accepted as the price of social peace.
Racial politics as part of "decentered" but interconnected pattern of "new social movements." Extension of democratic rights and of societal control over the state.
www.ubfellowship.org /archive/readers/doc729.htm   (11645 words)

  
 A German Soldier's Letter (1943)
Thus, war is the test of the racial strength of the peoples, and thus the root of their historical achievements.
But there is also no doubt that, despite all of these dangers, at its core the racial strength of the German people was and is unbroken, and that the successful measures we took after 1933 further strengthened it.
The racial superiority of Germany over its enemies is most clear in this regard: the racial unity of leadership and people is the greatest triumph of our racial renewal, the guarantee of our spiritual unity, and therefore of our political and military power.
www.calvin.edu /academic/cas/gpa/schul04.htm   (1297 words)

  
 The Myth of Greek Ethnic 'Purity'
The obsession with Greek racial identity involves the distortion of the history of the thousands of years when there was no such thing as a Greek nation state.
While the slaves of Athens were a wide racial mix and therefore less likely to unite on the basis of a common language, these Messenian helots of Sparta all spoke Greek, and had a kind of group self-consciousness.
This material demonstrates that the Greek attitude towards ethnic purity in Greece, and all that follows from it, can be seen in various spheres of political interest, not only in the case of the ethnic Macedonians of Aegean Macedonia and in behaviors towards the new Republic of Macedonia.
www.historyofmacedonia.org /AncientMacedonia/greekmyth.html   (7427 words)

  
 Goodrick-Clarke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
· Ariosophy stresses elitism, racial purity (Social Darwinism), the decline of German culture, nationalism (with emphasis on past and old rural Germany), a mystical sense of national identity, traditional values and a concomitant vilification of the Jews and liberalism, i.e.
She was fascinated by the swastika, an Eastern symbol of fertility and god fortune, and used it in her design for the seal of the Theosophical Society.
She had a racial theory of human revolution and regarded the Aryans as the fifth root-race although the term itself had only referred to the Indo-European Languages in the past.
www.public.asu.edu /~atrja/goodrick.html   (2403 words)

  
 Chapter 5 of Separation and Its Discontents
Chamberlain exhibits a strong concern with the importance of racial purity, but it is important to note that his exemplar of racial purity is the Jews, and especially the Sephardic Jews.
The vacillation and ambivalence surrounding racial conceptualizations of Judaism were also present in American Reform circles in the late 19th century: "It was not uncommon for a rabbi to make bold pronouncements about his desire for a universalistic society and then, in moments of frustration or doubt, revert to a racial understanding of the Jews.
There is a sense of Jewish racial superiority in Graetz's writings as well as hints that he believed in the importance of racial purity: "There were but two nations of creative mind who originated [high] culture and raised humanity from the slough of barbarity and savagery.
www.euvolution.com /articles/chapt5.htm   (16391 words)

  
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Judges are therefore given wide powers in the racial and national interest; and efficient, speedy working of the legal machine is always sought in the maintenance of community interests and in the punishment of wrongdoers.
The essence of Aryan culture is the certainty of racial destiny, and the consecration of all energies to the accomplishment of the racial mission.
Racial knowledge and practice will be accepted as a vital part the Aryan faith; and children, racially pure and healthy, will be safeguarded by the National Socialist State.
www.jrbooksonline.com /DOCs/holy_book_2.doc   (13725 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Bardot fined for 'race hate' book
In her book she wrote about issues such as racial mixing, immigration, the role of women in politics and Islam.
The book also contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes and praised previous generations who, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders.
Bardot has previous convictions for inciting racial violence after criticising in print the Muslim practice of slaughtering sheep.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3794513.stm   (260 words)

  
 INTERRACIAL VOICE - Editorial: Mar-Apr '96 (Charles Michael Byrd)
A more fundamental issue, however, comes into play, and that is the perpetuation of the mythical notion of white racial purity and of white racial supremacy -- which is really what racial categories signify anyway.
Contemporary advocacy of a mixed-race identifier is the largest and most meaningful assault on the concept of white racial purity to come down the pike in many moons.
Mfume, who marched with Louis Farrakhan last October, is willing to break the pattern of fl support for the concept of white racial purity by dropping his organization's steadfast opposition to the multiracial initiative.
www.interracialvoice.com /editor4.html   (486 words)

  
 RichardPoe.com - Single Blog Entry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We are honored to welcome back Dienekes Pontikos -- the Web's preeminent defender of Greek racial purity -- who joined our discussion only this morning.
"Racial purity" is a loaded term, with sinister implications and it is mostly incoherent from a genetics stand-point, so I doubt it's something he would ever defend.
`Racial purity' is a loaded term, with sinister implications...
www.richardpoe.com /blog_single.php?rowID=133   (920 words)

  
 Long pursuit of racial purity, by Laurence Jourdan
According to the historians’ report, about a hundred of these victims of science in the service of politics were still in clinics or institutions in 1988.
This close collaboration is illustrated by the career of Ernst Rüdin (1874-1952), a psychiatrist from German-speaking Switzerland who was director of the Basel University Psychiatric Clinic.
It pursued its compulsory sterilisation policy until 1976, as part of a social and racial hygiene programme (6).
mondediplo.com /1999/10/11gypsy   (2085 words)

  
 Did JRR Tolkien believe in racial purity? Message Board
The whole of The Lord of the Rings' is riddled with racial mixing, which is chiefly the significant heritage of Elrond & his daughter Arwen, as well as Aragorn.
It is also plain these racial blendings were legitimate laiasons, blessed by both their progenitors' & by the Valar.
Racial purity, in essence, is neither bad nor good.
www.allreaders.com /board.asp?BoardID=10479   (1040 words)

  
 Israel passes racial purity law - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community
Racial purity my ass, perserving thier heritage my ass, the jews are as much a bunch of mutts as the rest of them.
Anyone who thinks this racial purity laws is ok is not a Nazi.
This New racial purity law is typical and inline with Zionist tendancies.
www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread13999/pg3   (2856 words)

  
 NAZI GENEALOGICAL CHARTS
One method of proving or disproving "racial purity" was the delineation of genealogical charts.
Kahlo adapted the very device that was used by the Nazis to prove "racial purity" in order to stress the opposite – her interracial origins.
This may be seen as a subversive statement that reflects her identification with her Jewish roots.
www.thejewishmuseum.org /kahlo/gallery_theme.php?id=nazi_gen   (352 words)

  
 Lives Of Jean Toomer BY CYNTHIA EARL KERMAN, ET AL (Quakerbooks.org)
He steadfastly refused to be labeled and considered classification the nemesis of mankind, a reflection of intellectual empty-headedness.
"Thus Toomer propounded the rather unpopular view that the racial issue in America would be resolved only when white America could accept the fact that its racial 'purity' was a myth, that indeed its racial isolation produced blandness and lack of character.
On the other hand, racial purity among fls was just as much a myth....Race, he said, was a fictional construct, of no use for understanding people."
www.quakerbooks.org /get/0-8071-1548-7   (120 words)

  
 lec8c
At the core of Nazi ideology was a deadly vision of a racially pure society: a vicious form of social, genetic, and population planning that eliminated every individual not fitting its narrow definition of perfection.
Eugenicists effectively lobbied for social legislation to keep racial and ethnic groups separate, to restrict immigration from southern and eastern Europe, and to sterilize people considered ‘genetically unfit.’ Elements of the American eugenics movement were models for the Nazis, whose radical adaptation of eugenics culminated in the Holocaust.
Although the Nuremberg racial laws of September 15, 1935, did not specifically mention Romani, they were included in the implementation of the statutes, fhomosexualsalong with Jews and "Negroes" as "racially distinctive" minorities with "alien blood." As such, their marriage to "Aryans" was prohibited.
www.u.arizona.edu /~shaked/Holocaust/lectures/lec8c.html   (8425 words)

  
 Modernism without the Modernists
Whereas "the major writers of the Progressive period--London, Dreiser, Wharton--were comparatively indifferent to questions of both racial and national identity," (8) the literature of the post-war, of the 1920s, is characterized by its particular brand of nativism, that is, its commitment to the notion that one's identity is defined by racial difference.
Whereas Progressivist "claims to racial superiority inevitably involved the appeal to standards that were understood as common to all races.
Its prerequisite is a familiarity with the ethnic literature of the 1920s --a literature that stakes its claim precisely on racial and cultural grounds.
wings.buffalo.edu /epc/authors/perloff/walter.html   (2726 words)

  
 Tolerance.org: HARRY POTTER: A 'Half-Blood Prince' Revealed
Racially speaking, a "half-blood" could be a person with parents of differing races, such as one Asian parent and one white parent; in this case, not being "pure-blood" can diminish certain rights and inclusion in the community.
Harry's foe, Draco Malfoy of the Slytherin House at Hogwarts, has a great deal invested in policing "purity," while Harry's friend, Hermione, is the daughter of muggles.
This works beautifully as a race metaphor; Hitler, after all, also advocated racial purity.
tolerance.org /news/article_tol.jsp?id=1256   (969 words)

  
 South Asia Sessions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This was not a benign identification of racial variance as defined by susceptibility to disease, but suggested that Europeans were uncomfortable in the Indian climate because they were used to greater purity of air.
The Aryan theory as explained in the Indian context was to have far-reaching and tragic consequences in the twentieth century for Germany, and served as a model for Gallicism in France.
Languages and bodies were described in terms of purity, degeneration, hybridity, or a descent from common roots.
www.aasianst.org /absts/2005abst/South/s-105.htm   (1051 words)

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