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The Aryan race is a pseudoscientific historical race concept that emerged in the late-19th ... (German: Auslese), struggle for life (German ... real and feigned ...
In the tradition of Lassen's 'Aryan–Semitic' dichotomy, French orientalist Ernest Renan (1823–1892) portrayed 'Semites' as 'non-Aryans', and the Aryans as the master race destined to shape human destiny. Similarly, Swiss linguist Adolphe Pictet (1799–1875) identified the Aryans as the chosen race and direct ancestors of Europeans ...
The Aryans (also Indo-Germans, Japhetiten) are one of the three branches of the Caucasian (white race); they are divided into the western (European), that is the German, Roman, Greek, Slav, Lett, Celt [and] Albanesen, and the eastern (Asiatic) Aryans, that is the Indian (Hindu) and Iranian (Persian, Afghan, Armenian, Georgian, Kurd).
At the time the book was published, the Aryan race was generally regarded as one of three major branches of the Caucasian race, along with the Semitic race and the Hamitic race. This approach to categorizing human population groups is now considered to be misguided and biologically meaningless. [2] [3] [4]
In a 1921 speech in Bologna, Mussolini stated that fascism was born out of a profound, perennial need of this our Aryan and Mediterranean race. [31] [32] In this speech Mussolini was referring to Italians as being the Mediterranean branch of the Aryan race, Aryan in the meaning of people of an Indo-European language and culture. [33]
In prison, Stinson ascended to the Aryan Brotherhood's "commission," which had the last word on inducting new members and killing existing ones, according to testimony at his racketeering trial.
Reed noted three other Aryan Brotherhood members — who were also state prisoners serving life sentences — were found guilty of racketeering last year in a trial in Sacramento, but haven't ...
By the 19th century, theories which were based on the belief that Jesus was a member of the so-called "Aryan race", and in particular, theories which were based on the belief that his appearance was Nordic, were developed and later, they appealed to advocates of the new racial antisemitism, who did not want to believe that Jesus was Jewish ...