Perfect race?

[Bothick]

What is it called when a group of people try to create a perfect race, like the Nazis tried to do?

[B00]

Genocide?

[saxy_jag]

I believe 'Ethnic Cleansing' is considered a polite term.

And yes, I am being facetious.

[THECORBYLOON]

Eugenics is the principle or practice of improving the human race by selective breeding.

[bednobs]

i agree with ^^^^^ It's called eugenics
genocide and ethnic cleansing are trying to destroy a race, not create it

[saxy_jag]

Ah, now I remember. However, I think it would be fair to say that genocide and ethnic cleansing often go hand in hand with eugenics.

Caz, Hitler's aryan race was just his specific idea of a perfect race - blonde, strong etc etc. He was planning on getting there by wiping out those who didn't fit.

[Octavius]

It depends how the instigators of the �perfect race� intend to do it. In terms of the Nazi�s it was a social philosophy (or indeed, policy) through selective breeding. Hitler had a penchant for young strapping blonde boys in short lederhosen and thus selected them to be the fore-bearers of the future master-race. This is eugenics, as said above, although they also used genocide to filter out what they considered to be undesirables. Eugenics can be by race or class.

Another way of creating a �perfect race� could be through reprogenetics which is the clever word that clever people use, when Channel 4 or Channel 5 use �Designer Babies� or �Embryo Selection�.

[joko]

its interesting that hitler believed the perfect race looked the complete opposite to him...i wonder if anyone pointed that out to him...

[saxy_jag]

I think, Joko, that had something to do with the fact that he was of Jewish parentage and that he didn't have that happy a home life as a child.

I think he was basically a bit screwed up before he even started.

[-Zorro-]

Master Race

[chinois]

I'll go with eugenics