Sergi maintained in summary that the Mediterranean race ( excluding the depigmentated Nordic or'white') is : " a brown human variety, neither white nor Negroid, but pure in its elements, that is to say not a product of the mixture of Whites with Negroes or Negroid peoples ".
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Later in the 20th century, the concept of a distinctive Mediterranean race was still considered useful by theorists such as Earnest Hooton in " Up From the Ape " ( 1931 ) and Carleton S . Coon in his revised edition of Ripley's " Races of Europe " ( 1939 ).
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According to Sergi, the Mediterranean race was the " greatest race of the world " and was singularly responsible for the most accomplished civilizations of antiquity, including those of Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Persia, Ancient Rome, Carthage, Semites were a branch of the Eurafricans who were closely related to the Mediterraneans.
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This scientific racism manifested in Niceforo with " Crime in Sardinia " was published in 1897; here Niceforo related the crime in the Island to the existence of a Mediterranean Race and used the analysis of local music, songs, traditions and folklore as a proof of the Sardinians racial inferiority and tendency to crime.
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Giuseppe Sergi's much-debated book " The Mediterranean Race " ( 1901 ) argued that the Mediterranean race had likely originated from a common ancestral stock that evolved in the Sahara region in Africa, and which later spread from there to populate North Africa, the Horn of Africa and the circum-Mediterranean region.
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Giuseppe Sergi's much-debated book " The Mediterranean Race " ( 1901 ) argued that the Mediterranean race had likely originated from a common ancestral stock that evolved in the Sahara region in Africa, and which later spread from there to populate North Africa, the Horn of Africa and the circum-Mediterranean region.
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As such, he noted that : " I have purposely omitted such people as the Abyssinians and the Hindoos, who there is every reason to believe result from the intermixture of distinct stocks . " By the late nineteenth century, Huxley's Xanthochroi group had been redefined as the Nordic race, whereas his Melanochroi became the Mediterranean race.
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To what extent the Mediterranean race entered into the blood and civilization of Rome, it is now difficult to say, but the traditions of the Eternal City, its love of organization, of law and military efficiency, as well as the Roman ideals of family life, loyalty, and truth, point clearly to a Nordic rather than to a Mediterranean origin.
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Giuseppe Sergi asserted that the Mediterranean race was " " the greatest race [ . . . ] derived neither from the black nor white people [ . . . ] an autonomous stock in the human family . " " Italian Fascism initially adhered strongly to a similar version of Mediterraneanism that claimed a bond existed between all Mediterranean cultures and Nordic or Northwestern European people.
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To justify his Italophilia, Hitler had to convince himself that northern Italians were somehow " racially Aryan " " from the cultural point of view, " he once remarked, " we are more closely linked with the Italians than with any other people " and that the veins of Mussolini, Dante and other heroes pulsed with no " contaminating blood " from the " inferior " " Mediterranean race ."
