Word: racialization
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...doubt very much, however, whether the newspapers or the people making these charges against Poland have any definite knowledge as to the very complex racial character of the territories demanded by Poland. They talk about Vilna, so warmly claimed by the Poles, as if it were a Lithuanian city to which Poland had no right. As a matter of fact, there are only two thousand Lithuanians in the city, while the Poles are over fifty per cent of the population. The whole district surrounding it is overwhelmingly Polish...
...Lord Curzon in the name of the British Government; but the Curzon line was never intended by anyone but the English to be a final boundary of Poland. It is true that the Riga line lies far east of the ethnographical limits of Poland as shown on most racial maps, but these maps were always made on the basis of estimates prepared by the old Czarist Government estimates grossly falsified for political reasons. How false they were is shown by the census taken in this country by the Germans in 1916 and by a far more comprehensive census taken...
...last things that the vast majority of Americans want, or can afford, or ought to have, is a war with Great Britain. However just the cause of any other country may be, there stands above it the cause and interests of the United States. Those who because of racial prejudice attempt to influence our national action in any way are guilty of the rankest disloyalty...
...training proposed, is generally conceded. These benefits are, to the individual, improved health, a larger and more national view of his relations, and wider acquaintance with his country. To the Nation, they are the creation and deepening of the sense of community interest and the breaking down of racial, religious, linguistic, and sectional differences...
...Godkin Lecture, "Racial and Class Prejudice," Moorfield Storey '66, Emerson...