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| 99 "... the Aryan people" "The Vedic term arya- in its earliest attestations has ab meaning of "stranger", but "stranger" in the sense of "potential guest". The Sanskrit lexicon defines Arya as mahākula kulīnārya "being of a noble family", sabhya "having gentle or refined behav- ior and demeanor", sajjana "being well-born and respectable", and sādhava "being virtuous, honourable, or righteous". Arya, is a title of honor and respect given to cer- tain people for noble behavior. The Aryan race was a term used in the early 20th century by European racial theorists who believed strongly in the division of humanity into biologically distinct races with differing characteristics. Such writers believed that the Proto-Indo-Europeans constituted a specific race that had expanded across parts of Europe, Iran and small parts of northern India. This usage tends to merge the Sanskrit meaning of "noble" or "elevated" with the idea of distinctive behavioral and ancestral ethnicity marked by language distribution. Nazism portrayed their interpretation of an "Aryan race" as the only race capable of, or with an interest in, creating and maintaining culture and civilizations, while other races are merely capable of conversion, or destruction of culture. These arguments derived from late nineteenth century racial hierarchies. Some Nazis were also influenced by Madame Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine (1888) where she postulates "Aryans" as the fifth of her "Root Races, dating them to about a million years ago, tracing them to Atlantis, 219 Because of historical racist use of Aryan, and especially use of Aryan race in connection with the propaganda of Nazism, the word is sometimes avoided in the West as being tainted, in the same manner as the swastika symbol. Currently, India and Iran are the only countries to use the word Aryan in a demographic denomination" -- Reference Wikipedia.org back to 99) Download 2 Mb. Share with your friends:
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