Race

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~ 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