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'needing help', if there is one.
Anyway, from the site:
Origin
1490-1500; < French < Italian razza, of obscure origin
One who sees the words "Origin of racism" might confuse whether it's the origin of the word or the origin of the practice. So...did the French invent the word or...maybe is it that we tend to get too analytical at times?
people (a nation, not a race) who have always thought of France as "God's country". The Old Russians similarly, about their country. Dostoevsky has a couple of his characters mention it. Solzhenitsyn thought so. Here in the US it's relatively small groups that think so, from time to time. (Sit down, have a cup of tea, and think about it.
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