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单词 race suicide
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race suicide
race suicide n. the decline or extinction of a racial group through low birth rate, esp. in contrast to a racial group sharing the same geographical area and having a high birth rate; (also) the self-destruction of a race.
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1901 E. A. Ross in Ann. Amer. Acad. Pol. & Social Sci. July 88 The American farm hand, mechanic and operative might wither away before the heavy influx of a prolific race from the Orient... For a case like this I can find no words so apt as ‘race suicide’.
1920 A. G. Bell in Jrnl. Heredity 11 340 At the present time considerable alarm has been expressed at the apparently growing disinclination of American women to bear children, and a cry has been raised against what people call Race Suicide.
1936 M. Plowman Faith called Pacifism 14 If war has become race suicide by a perfectly natural process of evolution, why should we continue to call it ‘war’?
2002 C. Mason Killing for Life i. 36 At the beginning of the twentieth century, many people—not just Klansmen—feared that the declining birth rate of whites would result in race suicide.
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