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Show University Scientist Hits "Aryan" Doctrine There is no such thing as an "Aryan" race or pure race of any kind and those disnriminrtrnEi against certain groups on the basis of racial superiority has no &:ie.ir-i.fic &:ie.ir-i.fic basis in fact for their actions, ciccoroing to E. R. Smith, University Univers-ity cf Utah anthropologist. Tnc.e j i.s bsen so much inter - ocdir.g among the different races since late Paleolithic times that the present talk of 'Nordic purity" is mythical. No group of people is oioh.gically aryan. the anthropoid ogist said. The word "aryan" was coinec'i by Max Muller to apply to l.ngugage, not race. Race depends upon inheritance of certain physical physi-cal characteristics such as hair texture, tex-ture, stature, blood composition, hoad form and other distinguishing c aracteristics. "As 'aryan' applies to language instead of lace, one can no more speak of a people being be-ing t.k.lorpcaily aryan th,;n one can speak of a 'brcadneaded dictionary' jr a longheaded dictionary'." Even b..e Jews cannot be spoken cf as a distinct race, according to cnith, for they must be distinguished distin-guished from ether groups on a j sis of culture and religion. A world 'Aide study, he said, showed only thirteen to fifteen I er cent of the Jewish people had the Jewish r.cse trait. Another survey, in t.ie i Roman-Catholic area of Bavaria, round t at about thirty per cent of the Catholics had the so-called "Jewish" nose. , "The people with racial obsessions obses-sions who held that they must annihilate an-nihilate or drive cut a group of people are taking a sadistic point of view," the anthropologist said. "They seem, to enjoy inflicting misery mis-ery on a minority group and use a sort cf pseudo-anthropology as a means of appealing to their people, 'a : o do rot think intellectually, but or otionally." |