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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
Mediterranean race is shown in yellow; green indicates the Alpine race; bright red is the Nordic race. During the 20th century, white supremacists and Nordicists in Europe and the United States promoted the merits of the Nordic race as the most "advanced" of all the human population groups, designating them as the "master race".
The Nordic Indo-Germanic people is a mythological group, from which the Germanic peoples allegedly descended. The assumption of the existence of this primordial people was developed by nationalists in the German territories from the early 19th century onwards, and was the subject of intense research in both the 19th and 20th centuries.
A majority of both ethnic Norwegians and Sámi are nominally Christian, but not necessarily observant. In Norway as of 2018, 70% of the population are members of the Lutheran Church, [62] though only 47.1% answered "Yes" to the question "Do you believe in God?" in a 2018 European Values Study. [63]
The Nazis viewed ethnic “Nordic Norwegians”, who are Germanic and oftentimes blonde-haired and blue-eyed, as Aryans just like Germans. Quisling shared their view and proposed the complete eradication of the Sámi people, who he viewed as ethnically inferior.
North Germanic peoples, Nordic peoples [1] and in a medieval context Norsemen, [2] were a Germanic linguistic group originating from the Scandinavian Peninsula. [3] They are identified by their cultural similarities, common ancestry and common use of the Proto-Norse language from around 200 AD, a language that around 800 AD became the Old Norse language, which in turn later became the North ...