White Ethnocentrism: Can Americans Really Be Brainwashed?

 

Most Republicans are not rich white oligarchs. The fact is that the Republican base is really about the Sarah Palin phenomenon—white Christians—many with small town roots in the South and West—who yearn for the America they are rapidly losing: a white America

 

One of the great intellectual divides is the venerable nature/nurture dichotomy.

 

Conservatives tend to be on the side of nature:

 

"Race exists as a biological reality; there are race differences in socially important traits like IQ; people’s brains are wired to prefer people like themselves; they are more likely to contribute to public goods like health care and education if the beneficiaries are of the same ethnic group; people trust others more if they live in homogeneous societies."

 

The left takes the opposite tack:

 

"Race doesn’t exist; the idea that it does exist is a fantasy of moral reprobates. To the extent that differences in traits like IQ are interesting at all, they are the result of capitalism, discrimination, or general evil. If it weren’t for white people behaving badly, we could easily build a strong, racially diverse multicultural society where all people can live happily ever after."

 

I am not going to try to convince you of the merits of either side of this debate. Over the years, VDARE.COM has certainly published some of the premier writers on the nature side.

 

But if you pick up the New York Times, you’ll get a very different version of these issues. It’s a version which, sad to say, has a lot more influence.

 

So what makes culture so powerful and how does it work at the psychological level?

 

Article Source (May be easier to read at source because of hyperlinks):

 

http://vdare.com/macdonald/081125_ethnocentrism.htm

 

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.com/

Any new born child will not grow up to hate certain people unless they are taught to. Racism is not a belief, it's a horrible trait that is drilled into people's brains, ruining their chances at a decent life of diversity.

I'm sorry but it is a belief

Those are some pretty lofty generalizations up there...

 

^^Well, people are genetically wired to look for and feel more comfortable around other people they identify as being like them. How they define that depends on a lot of different things.

 

Just look at us, people from every corner of the globe and walk of life, bound together by a shared love of certain music. It's a clique, yes, but race has nothing to do with it.

Those are some pretty lofty generalizations up there...

 

^^Well, people are genetically wired to look for and feel more comfortable around other people they identify as being like them. How they define that depends on a lot of different things.

 

Just look at us, people from every corner of the globe and walk of life, bound together by a shared love of certain music. It's a clique, yes, but race has nothing to do with it.

Precisely. Which is what makes racism so dumb. If we all wanted to gang up and beat up some Avril Lavigne forum-goers, well that wouldn't be right. They just are a little different in one way, most of us may have lots in common with most of them. Same with race

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My fingers smell like caribou/kangaroo/ostrich/alligator/whatever I just ate.

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squirrel on a branch and a branch on a tree and the tree in the hole and the hole in the ground and the green grass grows all around and around and the green grass grows all around....

White Ethnocentrism: Can Americans Really Be Brainwashed?

 

Most Republicans are not rich white oligarchs. The fact is that the Republican base is really about the Sarah Palin phenomenon—white Christians—many with small town roots in the South and West—who yearn for the America they are rapidly losing: a white America

 

One of the great intellectual divides is the venerable nature/nurture dichotomy.

 

Conservatives tend to be on the side of nature:

 

"Race exists as a biological reality; there are race differences in socially important traits like IQ; people’s brains are wired to prefer people like themselves; they are more likely to contribute to public goods like health care and education if the beneficiaries are of the same ethnic group; people trust others more if they live in homogeneous societies."

 

The left takes the opposite tack:

 

"Race doesn’t exist; the idea that it does exist is a fantasy of moral reprobates. To the extent that differences in traits like IQ are interesting at all, they are the result of capitalism, discrimination, or general evil. If it weren’t for white people behaving badly, we could easily build a strong, racially diverse multicultural society where all people can live happily ever after."

 

I am not going to try to convince you of the merits of either side of this debate. Over the years, VDARE.COM has certainly published some of the premier writers on the nature side.

 

But if you pick up the New York Times, you’ll get a very different version of these issues. It’s a version which, sad to say, has a lot more influence.

 

So what makes culture so powerful and how does it work at the psychological level?

 

Article Source (May be easier to read at source because of hyperlinks):

 

http://vdare.com/macdonald/081125_ethnocentrism.htm

 

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.com/

 

Do you ever create threads that aren't about race?

I find the whole article pretty insulting. Primarily the generalizations about racism, conservatism and the republican party.