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The Nordic race is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. [1] [2] [3] ... as an "ethnic group" ...
Nordicism is an ideology which views the "Nordic race" (a historical race concept) as an endangered and superior racial group.Some notable and influential Nordicist works include Madison Grant's book The Passing of the Great Race (1916); Arthur de Gobineau's An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853); the various writings of Lothrop Stoddard; Houston Stewart Chamberlain's The ...
Nordic people may refer to: People who are inhabiting the Nordic countries; North Germanic peoples or Scandinavians, a group of related ethnic groups originating in the Nordic countries; Nordic race, a historical race concept largely covering populations of Northern Europe
[15] [16] In the 19th century, ethnicity was discussed in terms of scientific racism, and the ethnic groups of Europe were grouped into a number of "races", Mediterranean, Alpine and Nordic, all part of a larger "Caucasian" group.
Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries. While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural ...
Norsemen or Norse: Viking Age peoples of Nordic origin. Vikings: used in the Nordic countries to denote people who went raiding, pillaging or slave catching during the Viking Age. Used in a similar way by other peoples but can also mean Scandinavians in general. Minnewegian: colloquial term for a Norwegian Minnesotan.
Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics: Scandinavian Americans and the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890–1914 (University of Illinois Press, 2004). Brøndal, Jørn. "'The Fairest among the So-Called White Races': Portrayals of Scandinavian Americans in the Filiopietistic and Nativist Literature of the Late Nineteenth and Early ...
Nordic countries except Norway, EU/EFTA, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand 378 076 51 274 6.9 0.9 Europe except EU/EFTA and UK, Africa, Asia, America except USA and Canada, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand, polar regions 499 150 162 535 9.1 3.0 Nordic countries except Norway 69 251 7 320 1.3 0.1