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What does racialism mean?

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Noun
  1. The belief in the existence and significance of racial categories.
  2. The belief in racial separatist ideologies, the emphasis on perceived social and cultural differences among races.
  3. (Britain, dated) Racism.
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Because of that movement, a number of new laws and regulations were enacted to reduce racialism.
Nevertheless, varied combinations of ancient philosophical essentialism and nineteenth-century scientific racialism linger to this day in American folk concepts of race.
In all the social sciences, the doctrines of racialism were accepted as a given.
This changed towards the end of the century, when a turn to evolutionist Darwinian theory and German nationalism drove German anthropology towards racialism.
Once you realize that racialism is at the root of so many problems you can begin to overcome it and then overlook the differences between yourself and others around you.
She cites last year's hue and cry over the lack of minorities on network television shows as an example of racialism.

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