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This paper aims to elucidate Nietzsche’s idea of race and race mixing. It is discussed that for Nietzsche a race consists in the character developed for a certain climate, environment, or living conditions under which people live. However, this does not mean that race has nothing to do with the biological sense, because the character is to be incorporated and ingrained in the body and passed on to the next generation. This view that race is about biological and cultural inheritance further allows Nietzsche to use the term ‘race’ often in connection with class or social rank. As the difference of races consist in the differently inherited and developed character, classes too consist in types of a different character. Hence, this paper argues, when Nietzsche mentions the problem of the races mixing, this primarily means the mixing of people from different classes that have developed disparate characters and values. In this regard, when it comes to the European situation of intermingling, Nietzsche presents two lines of thought. While he warns against the mixing of types and denial of rank order, he is open to the development towards new European culture that the mixing of races will bring.

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