The Hamitic Race by somalia5: 1:28pm On May 02, 2013. 1  In the 19th century, as an application of scientific racism, Europeans classified the Hamitic race as a sub-group of the Caucasian race, alongside the Semitic race, grouping the non-Semitic populations native to North Africa, the Horn of Africa and South Arabia, including the Ancient Egyptians.
Semiotics definition, the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing. See more. Dictionary.com
As such, semiotics seems to be an ideal analytical tool to pursue the questions of interest in the present study, to understand the semiosis of the acronym IMF as a reflection of the general psychology of the Korean people struggling to deal with the Asian financial crisis.