noun
definition
A skill possessed by all characters of a certain race.
adjective
definition
Of or relating to a race (or a people).
Examples of racial in a Sentence
It is wholly due, as such, to racial preparation.
He spent his whole life fighting for racial equality.
While inguinal hernias seem to affect all racial groups at the same rate, umbilical hernias occur more frequently in African Americans.
There is no gender, racial, or ethnic predilection.
People in some racial groups have a smaller size of the ear canal, which may predispose them to infection.
The disorder is four times more prevalent in boys than girls and is not associated with any specific racial or ethnic background.
The syndrome also appears to be equally common in all racial and ethnic groups.
It crosses all racial boundaries and affects people from all walks of life.
The inhabitants of this tract are Persians or Arabs who by domicile and intermarriage with Persians have lost nearly all their racial and most of their social characteristics, but retain a dialect of Arabic as their mother tongue.
But, on the other hand, the essentially human nature of these two gods 1 As in the case of Siva's traditional white complexion, it may not be without significance, from a racial point of view, that Vishnu, Rama and Krishna have various darker shades of colour attributed to them, viz.
As of the early 2000s, researchers do not know whether these disorders are more common in some racial or ethnic groups than others or whether they are equally common in all parts of the world.
One prominent program has been the No Child Left Behind Act that requires schools to meet certain performance standards annually, for their students as a group and also for individual ethnic and racial subgroups.
The goal of multicultural education is to help students understand and appreciate cultural differences and similarities and to recognize the accomplishments of diverse ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups.
Community leaders, activists, and parents began to demand curricula that were more supportive and consistent with the cultural and racial diversity in the United States.
Content may include holiday celebrations, recognizing heroes from different racial and ethnic groups, and focusing on the achievements of women and minorities.
Adenoid hypertrophy does not appear to affect any gender or racial group more than another.
It is not more prevalent in males or females, nor in any individual racial group.
Yet other uses include showing the history of dance and movement, or even teaching about racial diversity and tensions of the swing era.
In the Western world, cornrows are unisex and, although predominately worn by black men, they cross racial lines as well.
They are also prohibited from attempting to preserve the racial, ethnic or economic distribution of a neighborhood by only showing homes for sale or rent to people who are just like the people currently in the neighborhood.
InterracialMatch.com can match you up with someone from another racial group you find attractive.
It appears to me that racism is growing at a faster rate than racial harmony.
Created by the legendary Agnes Nixon, One Life to Live soap opera defied wasp conventions of soap operas of the time by featuring more social, economic and racial diversity in the town.
She is also notable for breaking the racial barrier to become the first African-American to appear on the cover of the Sport's Illustrated Swimsuit edition and Gentlemen's Quarterly.
Her distinctive appearance has lead to much speculation about her exact racial heritage.
Going Down to Mississippi - Phil Ochs wrote this song about the racial violence associated with the civil rights movement in Mississippi, including the crime that inspired the movie Mississippi Burning.
This third arrest in the spring of 2007 was for punching a hotel security guard and for yelling homophobic and racial slurs at the arresting officer.
One couple experienced racial discrimination from each other's families and another couple had to contend with the bride being pregnant.
Other themes that have been a focal point were pregnancy, racial discrimination, and infidelity.
In this instance, he was tape recorded using extremely offensive language, including racial slurs against African-Americans.
His son was dating a black girl and Dog voiced his concern over having her spending time with the family as they have playfully used racial slurs in the past.
Racial elements are for the most part the explanation.
He was a disciple, not of Machiavelli, but of Rousseau; and his scattered dominions, divided by innumerable divergences of racial and class prejudice, and enncumbered with traditional institutions to which the people clung with passionate conservatism, he regarded as so much vacant territory on which to build up his ideal state.
Germanism had so far served as the basis of the Austrian system, not as a national ideal, but because " it formed a sort of unnational mediating, and common element among the contradictory and clamorous racial tendencies."
The extreme parties of the Germans and the anti-Semites were also, for racial reasons, opposed to the whole system.
Parliamentary discussion, moreover, was sure to bring out those racial differences which it was desirable should be forgotten, and the elections carried into every part of the empire a political agitation which was very harmful when each party represented a different race.
It became more and more avowedly racial; the defence of German nationality was put New in the front of their programme.
Alexander had settled large masses of Greeks in these regions (Greeks, would seem, not Macedonians), whose attempts to return home in 325 and 323 had been frustrated, and it may well be that a racial antagonism quickened the revolt against Macedonian rule in 250.
As to the effect of this network of Greek cities upon the aboriginal population of Syria, we do not find here the same disappearance of native languages and racial charac Greek teristics as in Asia Minor.
Racial, administrative, and economic problems of an intricate kind pressed upon him and were not always wisely decided; and it says much for his personal charm that he carried away with him on his retirement the warm affection of the Rhodesians.
The species is subject to great racial variation.
It does not correspond with any valid linguistic or racial difference; but in the course of time a strong religious difference arose.
They are mainly monogamous, and by rigidly abstaining from foreign marriages have preserved racial purity.
The historical causes which kept the nations separate were mainly racial, though, from a very early period, the majority of the people of Scotland were, if not purely English by blood, anglicized in language and to a great extent, Earl gand, g ?
Whatever be the origin of the Polynesians, they are not Malays, though, themselves of mixed blood, they have probably certain racial elements in common with the latter, who are undoubtedly hybrids.
The prevalence of elephantiasis and the occurrence of leprosy, for instance, in Hawaii, would seem to point at least in some places to a racial taint, due perhaps to the unbridled licentiousness of past generations.
It has further been established on strong archaeological and linguistic evidence that the long struggle between patricians and plebeians in early Rome was the result of a racial difference between them.
Apart from the definite evidence, the theory of a racial distinction gains probability from the fact that it explains the survival of the distinction between the patricii, men with a family and genealogy, and the rest of the citizens, for some time after the latter had acquired the legal status of patres and were organized in gentes of their own; for on this theory privilege would belong not to all who could trace free descent but only to those who could trace descent to an ancestor of the conquering race.
The numerous invasions p g have naturally introduced a certain amount of foreign blood among the tribes fringing the Mediterranean, but those farther inland have preserved their racial purity to a surprising degree.
The aborigines of South Africa are represented by the Bushmen and Hottentots, now found in any racial purity only in the Kalahari and in the southern part of German South-West Africa.