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race feeling

noun

Etymology

Calque of German Rassengefühl, from Rasse (“race”) + Gefühl (“feeling”).

  1. derived from Rassengefühl

Definitions

  1. Love of one's own race, or hatred of other races.

    • there is what is called the race feeling, by which is meant the natural antipathy between races of different coloured skins—a feeling which, however manifestly unreasonable, is difficult to overcome.
    • We cannot help fearing that the opportunity is being taken to make capital out of race feeling by nursing it into race antipathies.
    • His race feeling is so strong that he seems to prefer Islam when taught by blacks to Christianity when brought by whites

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