Word: racialization
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...slowly mounting dislike for the party bullyboys who run the collective farms and the factories, Fainsod found signs of weakness in the Soviet Union's heralded nationality policy (which promises, on paper, complete equality for national minorities). He found that the younger intellectuals among the U.S.S.R.'s racial minorities are becoming increasingly restive under Russia's rigid control, also found that the Soviet hold on youth is less ironclad than generally supposed, because Communism has lost its aura of rebellion, its "ideological élan." But opposition is locked in the separate minds of millions of individuals...
...that she has borne a child suffering from an affliction which has been misnamed "Mongolian idiocy." In the 85 years since mongolism was defined, authorities have disagreed widely as to its cause. No speculation seemed too absurd. Mongolism, said some, looking at the slanted eyes of its victims, was racial evidence of "the Mongol in our midst." Others, more responsible, argued that it was caused by "advanced maternal age," exhaustion of the womb, ovarian disorders, an upset gland (any gland would do) or, finally, heredity...
...city of Portland, Ore., which won the 1950 Community Human Relations Award for easing religious and racial tensions, voted down an ordinance which would have made it illegal to refuse service to non-whites in stores, hotels and restaurants...
...third of the Malaya Federation's budget were needed to hold down 5,000 jungle-wise Red terrorists. Yet Red destruction was more than matched by anti-Red construction. Rubber, tin and rice production stood at a record peak. More significant, the country's long antagonistic racial groups, the Malays and the Chinese, were closing ranks toward national unity...
Early in 1949 Britain's able Malcolm MacDonald, Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, brought the federation's hostile racial leaders together in a Communities' Liaison Council. On the council was the influential head of the United Malay National Organization, spruce, bespectacled, British-educated Dato Onn bin Jafaar, 54, once a violent baiter of Chinese. Several months of round-table parleys, plus the mounting Communist threat, converted Dato Onn. He publicly proclaimed: "Malays must accept as full nationals those of other races who are prepared to give their all to the country...