wn (2003), the original definition and use of the word originated from the coincidence of two processes. The first was the development of scientific evidence that weaken the idea of 'races' as natural, separated and fixed subdivisions of the human species, each with its distinct and variable cultural indications and capacity for ' civilization'. The second was the response to the rise of Fascism in Germany and the use of the 'race' idea, legitimated partly by reference to science by Hitler and the German Nazis in their categorization of Jews as an alien and inferior 'race'.
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