Abstract

The Race Myth Crumbles
Barnes, Harry Elmer | May 6, 1925 issue

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The racial phobia which has reappeared with a new virulence since 1916, has based much of its dogmatism upon an appeal to pseudohistory. The origins of the race myth must unquestionably be sought in vestiges from the primitive aversion-complex exhibited toward strangers, symbolized by the old phrases of Jew and Gentile and Greek and Barbarian. The Nordic myth is but a later variant of the Aryan myth. When one turns to examine, in the light of the most rudimentary and self-evident facts of human history, the thesis that all the striking cultures and civilizations of the past have been a product of the Nordics, the whole structure of racialism immediately falls to the ground.

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MYTH; TEUTONIC race; DOGMATISM; CULTURE; CIVILIZATION; RACIAL differences
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