Nordic - Relating To A Racial Category

Relating To A Racial Category

  • Nordic race, "a physical type characterized by tall stature, long head, light skin and hair, and light-colored eyes"
  • Nordic theory or Nordicism, the belief that Northern Europeans constitute a "master race"
  • Nordic League (a British far right organization), a far right organisation in the United Kingdom from 1935 to 1939 that sought to serve as a co-ordinating body for the various extremist movements whilst also seeking to promote Nazism
  • Nordic aliens, also referred to as Nordics, a group of supposed humanoid extraterrestrial beings whose appearance resembles the Nordic physical type

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