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"There was a relatively short time span in Asia between the acceptance of a Westernized racial classificatory system and the adoption of social Darwinism, a philosophy positing that “weak” groups or races will eventually be driven to extinction by those that are more “fit.” Chinese and Japanese intellectuals—the former in the social chaos partly rooted in the aftermath of the Opium Wars, and the latter on the brink of modernization—did not critically question the Eurocentric and bigoted nature of the Western conception of race or of social Darwinism. In fact, “racial improvement” through amalgamation with the white race was proposed by some influential thinkers in both countries."
race - India’s caste system
India has a huge population encompassing many obvious physical variations, from light skins to some of the darkest in the world and a wide variety of hair textures and facial features. Such variations there, as elsewhere, are a product of natural selection in tropical and semitropical...
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