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→A master race?: Nordics coorrespond to modern Germanics
==A master race?==
==A master race?==
In 1786, Sir William Jones argued that Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit members of a language family and were descend from a single ancient language, now called Proto-Indo-European. This theory suggested that the Aryans who invaded India in vedic times had a European origin.
The "master race" theory was developed by French author [[Joseph Arthur de Gobineau]] in ''Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races'' (1853–1855). Gobineau argued that the Aryan race was the basis of European aristocracy and that race mixing led to the "downfall of civilizations." In French politics, Gobineau was a Legitimist and supported the rights of the aristocracy.
In modern popular usage, those with blonde hair and blue-eyes are sometimes described as Aryan. Due to the association with Nazi ideology, the word has slipped into disfavor.
While Gobineau argued that Aryans were in decline due to race mixing, Houston Chamberlain (1855–1927) saw a bright future for them. He applied the term to the Indo-European language family. This usage was long popular, but has fallen into disfavor.
In ''The Myth of the Twentieth Century'' (1930), Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg developed a racial "ladder" with blacks and Jews at the bottom and "Nordics" at the top. Rosenberg's Nordics correspond to Germanic peoples in modern terminology.
In popular usage, those with blonde hair and blue-eyes are sometimes described as Aryan. Due to the association with Nazi ideology, the word has slipped into disfavor.
==References==
==References==