racial hygiene
noun [ U ] old use /ˌreɪ.ʃəl ˈhaɪ.dʒiːn/ /ˌreɪ.ʃəl ˈhaɪ.dʒiːn/
种族优生
the idea that a race of people can be kept pure by not allowing people who are considered inferior (= of less value) to have children
One of the foundations of Hitler's social policies was the concept of racial hygiene. 种族优生的概念是希特勒的社会政策的基础之一。
An interest in questions of racial hygiene emerged, in various forms, round about 1890. 大约在1890年左右出现了关于种族优生的各种形式的问题。
See also: eugenics
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- The full horror of eugenics was realized in the 1934 German racial hygiene laws, which led to the enforced sterilization of more than 80,000 individuals.
- It was part of the same bureaucratic labyrinth that included the departments of hereditary science and racial hygiene .
- Looking back with unbridled condemnation on the beginnings of racial hygiene does not enlighten today's thoughtful man or woman in regard to how he or she might have responded at the time.