Tuesday, July 16, 2019
The real ethnic problems come from supremacism, not from ethnocentrism
The dictionary definition
of racism is “the belief that different races possess distinct
characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to
distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.” In the
increasing charges of “racism” now being hurled against people
on the right, the first part of that definition is bypassed for the
second part. But the charge of racism is also often
underhandedly used as the racist will to power of one race over
another---often the most ethnocentric or racist people make the most
noise against racism.
Here is the predicament:
real human nature is ethnocentric or racist because for
many thousands of years right up to our present time group selection,
or group altruism, was the best way to be successful in survival and
reproduction. So human nature became genetically kin-centered
and ethnic-centered, even
xenophobic, as well as being genetically gender
defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, and
religious-making, with group-selection and ethnic selection as the
primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual
selection.
The
real ethnic problems come from supremacism, from applying the second part of
that definition of racism, from distinguishing races as inferior or
superior to one another. That might have worked for survival success in very
difficult times, in hunter gatherer times, but in our
overpopulated world today claiming supremacism and imperialism is
countered by all other groups ganging up on and destroying the
upstart supremacist.
It
is better to think of ethnic groups and races as different and
distinct from one another, and as only inferior or superior to one another in
different areas. The racial problems we are now having in
multicultural societies comes from claims or acts of supremacism and imperialism, from claims of being the only nobles or the only chosen, and from our real genetic ethnocentric
human nature. Distinctly different ethnic groups aren't melting
together they are competing. This was predicable.
So
what it to be done? My readers know what I think: real human nature
leads naturally to the cultural expression of regionalism, localism,
ethnostates, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected by some
sort of federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions
could be established legally in the United States with our
constitutional separation of powers and states, protected by
federalism. Given who we are this also appears to be the best way we can
optimize the gene expression we inherited from our human ancestors.
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