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| Racism | The belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits. (Irish Harper's Weekly) |
| Prejudice | Refers to thoughts and feelings about an ethnic or racial group. |
| Discrimination | A negative act against people deemed inferior |
| Social Darwinism | The survival of the fittest |
| Eugenics | Translates roughly as good genes. |
| The Eugenics movement, active in many parts of the Western world, was driven by | the belief that social intervention should occur in order to protect the best gene pool. This was achieved by encouraging people who were considered to represent good genes to breed and more importantly to support interventions by the state to prevent those considered to have bad genes from breeding. |
| In Alberta, the Sexual Sterilization Act, in force from 1928 to 1972, allowed the state to | sterilize 2,832 people, most or all without consent. |
| Mongenism | Those who believed that humans were one species, united under God. |
| Polygenism | Those who believed that different races were different species. |
| H. H. Goddard | A prominent psychologist and eugenicist. In 1913, he established an intelligence testing program on Ellis Island. The program was designed to help detect feeble minded persons in the immigrant population. |
| Goddard reported that a majority of the Ellis Island immigrants were in fact | mentally deficient. |
| Specifically Goddard concluded that 87% of Russian immigrant, 83% of Jewish immigrants, and 79% of Italian immigrants | were feeble minded. Because of these results, many immigrants were denied entry into the country. |
