racial memory

noun

, Psychology.

feelings, patterns of thought, and fragments of experience that have been transmitted from generation to generation in all humans and have deeply influenced the mind and behavior.

No racial memory could have taught them; there were no tin cans a million years, not even a hundred years, ago.

Besides, there was subconscious racial-memory instinct in friendship between man and dog.

Besides, there was racial-memory rightness in friendship between men and dogs.

By some quirk of atavism, a certain portion of that early self's language had come down to him as a racial memory.

The inheritance of ancestral characteristics, according to this view, may be described as racial memory.

April 23, 2024inveterate

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