Racial purity

The concept of racial purity is associated the belief that the various so-called races of mankind should be kept "pure" by not permitting interbreeding. This belief is associated with racism and attempted biological justifications for this concept are now regarded as pseudoscientific. Miscegenation is a term for people of different human races producing offspring; it should be noted that the use of this term is almost invariably restricted to those who believe such "race mixing" is inherently bad. The racist and Anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws enacted by the Nazis in Germany against the large German Jewish community forbade marriages between the Jews (deemed as Untermenschen - "lower people") and German "Aryans" (deemed the Übermenschen - "higher people"). Many interfaith and intermarried couples committed suicide when these laws came into effect. \n

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\n* racial segregation Category:Core issues in ethics\nCategory:U.S. history of slavery\nCategory:U.S. civil rights history\nCategory:Political theories\nCategory:Nazi Germany\nCategory:Anti-Semitism\nCategory:South Africa