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.