| 单词 | racial hygiene |
| 释义 | > as lemmasracial hygiene racial hygiene n. (a) the overall health or hygiene of a race (now rare); (b) the ideology or practice of manipulating reproduction in a human population with the stated purpose of reducing the incidence of undesirable heritable characteristics in a race; eugenics (now historical).In sense (b) originally used in (now discredited or disregarded) scientific contexts, and later elaborated in Nazi ideology as a euphemistic justification for genocide. ΚΠ 1889 Med. & Surg. Reporter 5 Jan. 28/1 Matters of local and racial hygiene are discussed here with an acuteness sharpened by commercial interests. 1909 C. W. Saleeby Parenthood & Race Culture 370 Negative eugenics is substantially racial hygiene. 1910 Indianapolis Star 4 Mar. 10/2 Germans evidence a better racial hygiene than any other nation... This condition exists because the Germans legislate to create hygienic conditions. 1949 J. B. S. Haldane What is Life? xv. 59 Once you admit that there are such differences..you justify Hitler's policy against the Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians, not to mention the numerous Germans who were murdered in the name of racial hygiene. 2005 New Scientist (Nexis) 20 Aug. 36 The ideology of racial hygiene—which pre-dated Hitler's rise and declined only with his fall. < as lemmas |
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