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You can use it to denote the belief that one race is superior to another. For example: "The professor rejected the students' argument that racialism was acceptable in any context."
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racialism
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The belief in the existence and significance of racial categories.
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1938 Pope Denounces Racial Doctrine ROME — Racialism and extreme nationalism strike at the Church and at the Pope, "and who strikes the Pope dies," Pope Pius the Eleventh told students of the College for the Propagation of the Faith at Castel Gandolfo yesterday [July 28] in the most outspoken challenge he has yet made to Fascism's new doctrine.
Reynolds calls Baldwin's a "blinkered critique," though he concedes that Stowe trafficked in the clichés of "romantic racialism" while reminding us, fairly enough, that what now seems "like racial stereotyping" was "progressive" in her day.
In 1988, we warned that it would be more difficult to weave immigrants into French society "if the Le Pen phenomenon makes racialism seem normal to too many Frenchmen".
The left-of-centre think-tank Demos recently republished an updated version of a pamphlet written by the Liberal Democrat MP Vincent Cable, which also condemned multiculturalism as it "detracts from the important task of creating a sense of shared identity called 'Britishness', and allows racialism to flourish behind an outward veneer of politeness and respect for different ways of life".
The ANC has spent half a century fighting against racialism.
This hypothesis introduced an element of racialism into Greek interstate polemics.
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The banned African National Congress believes firmly in multi-racialism, while African nationalists elsewhere talk of black men's countries.
Since the 1950s its animating spirit has been non-racialism: South Africa not only for blacks, the party has emphasised, but for all its people.
Rather embarrassingly for South Africa, the England team does have non-white players.As if to compensate for the pale complexion of the Springboks, there have been some heroic efforts to make sure the team at least behaves in the spirit of multi-racialism.
Such a wide discrepancy is not simply because the various bodies measure different things, but also because the picture of women in South Africa is so mixed.In the "founding provisions" of South Africa's 1996 constitution, "non-sexism" is given equal billing with "non-racialism".
From early days too, no dissent was tolerated in the media.According to Mr Nyarota, it was Samora Machel, Mozambique's charismatic first president, who, despite his Marxist leanings, convinced Mr Mugabe to make room for capitalism and multi-racialism.
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