Aryan race

Such politically driven revisions of the race concept became more urgent still as the fully horrific details of the fascist programs in Europe became known. In response to German and Italian state policies, for instance, a handbook for secondary school teachers (1939) pointed out that Mussolini s effort to drive the Jews out of Italy is impossible, because not even the foremost anthropologist could tell exactly whose ancestry is free of Jewish blood. 27 Likewise, Benedict s popular pamphlet The Races of Mankind (1943) insisted, Aryans, Jews, Italians are not races. 28... 

Testimony was further taken upon the question of any radical differences existing between the Asiatic and Caucasian races, and in the evidence will be found much valuable information upon this point peculiarly interesting to the ethnologist. The deduction from the testimony taken by the committee on this point would seem to be that there is not sufficient brain capacity in the Chinese to furnish motive power for self-government. Upon the point of morals, there is no Aryan or European race which is not far superior to the Chinese as a class.49... 

---