racial characteristic

collocation in English

meaningsofracialandcharacteristic

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racial
adjective
uk
/ˈreɪ.ʃəl/us
/ˈreɪ.ʃəl/
based on someone's perceived race, especially in a way that is unfair or harmful; or based on policies, behaviours, rules, etc. that result in unfair or harmful treatment of people because of their ...
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characteristic
noun[C]
uk
/ˌkær.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/us
/ˌker.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/
a typical or noticeable quality of someone ...
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(Definition ofracialandcharacteristicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The slow weight gain after this could be due to a deficiency in energy which was not successfully overcome by supplementary feeding, or due toracialcharacteristic.
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There are not that number of women and men, and anyway theracialcharacteristicis bad, because how does one know that a man is black?
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Certain physical dispositions of the buttocksparticularly sizeare sometimes identified, controversially, as aracialcharacteristic(see race).
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This is primarily due to aracialcharacteristicof demanding nearly endless tests and re-tests of various hypothesises and engineering concepts before implementation.
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Though he moved smoothly in high society, the exotic quality ascribed to him was never lost and over the course of his lifetime was transformed into aracialcharacteristic.
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It can reduce discussion of the significance of genetics to a one-dimensional debate over whether there is or is not any genetic basis for racial characteristics.
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If those families can match their cultural, linguistic and racial characteristics, that is the best case, but that is not achieved for the vast majority.
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It is not appointed according to any racial characteristics or political views.
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Then the anti-aircraft defences of the two countries, training and racial characteristics are other criteria we have to seek to evaluate.
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The seminar was based on the proposition that there are distinct racial characteristics and that, from time to time, the nation states may represent a threat to each other.
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When relations are difficult and politics are sensitive, that is all the more reason not to inquire into the ethnic, national or racial characteristics of those concerned.
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He argued that heredity can yield strong family lines, group values, and national and racial characteristics.
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Racial qualities tended to be related to nationality and language rather than the actual geographic distribution of racial characteristics.
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Based on this evidence, racial characteristics logically can not exist either, such as group differences in eye color or human hair color.
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An example of this would be a college processing admissions without regard to or knowledge of the racial characteristics of applicants.
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Around 1940, as the racial characteristics of the neighborhood changed, this policy was dropped.
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Abderhalden also believed that racial characteristics were included in the proteins of the tissue and blood.
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When the practice of treating certain groups preferentially, or denying rights or benefits to certain groups, based on racial characteristics is institutionalized, it is termed institutional racism.
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In a given society, those who share racial characteristics socially-perceived as undesirable are typically under-represented in positions of social power, i.e., they become a minority category in that society.
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