Eugenics
It was maybe four or five years ago that my youngest sister convinced my mother to take a DNA test proving her ancestry. We learned so much about what we already thought we knew and it was welcoming to see that we had such a culturally diversified heritage. In fact, millions of Americans today are a good blend of several ethnicities, so much so that it is almost an insult to claim the heritage of one race. With that in mind I turn back to the 1840’s, when Anglo-Saxons were in a conquest to racially purify this nation by using science to backtrack through evolution to make a pure, white race. You could say this was the beginning of trying to save the last of a dying breed, the Nordics, the pure, the solid hierarchy of racial supremacy, in a nation that was becoming a churning pot of immigrants.
Eugenics, or the process of trying to create a master race, mixed science with secular religion in hopes of making a society that was full of a class of race that was superior, intellectual and of the best human qualities of mankind. By suggesting the idea of manipulating the
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William Ripley and Madison Grant, were both forthright in their opinions regarding the outcomes of eugenics. Ripley pointed out the fact that more than individual traits ere to be factors in perceiving an accurate manipulation. He argued that social conditions of immigrants could cause undenounced physiological and for that matter psychological traits, even when it was determined that the subject was intelligent, nondegenerate and lacking any mental illnesses. Ripley believed that Europeans were already a mixture of several races, thus by further mixing them, the race would not become stronger but weaker in the sense that too many traits have hibernated into a state of primitiveness, causing the offspring to obtain a stance reversion or a worse condition being mixed of all the lower race traits