racialism
Betekenis (Engels)
- (British, countable, dated, uncountable) Tribalism, nationalism.
- (countable, uncountable) The belief that humans can be categorized as belonging to distinct races, each race being characterized by fixed and heritable traits.
- (countable, uncountable) Racism, the belief in the existence of different races and the belief that some races are superior to other races; policies or practices which promote the dominance of one or more races over other races.
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Etimologie (Engels)
From racial + -ism. Coined in 1882 based on the older use of "race" as a synonym of "nation, tribe, ethnic group", later senses (from 1890) from the use of "race" for racial categories.
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