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| Day Brown |
 Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:41 am |
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Swedish and German sociologists did studies of minorities that I hoped
would be less biased. But I saw all the familiar statistics- high
rates of crime, drug abuse, alcoholism divorce, and low rates of
education & employment. They also noted the males have trouble with
authority figures, have an ostentatious wardrobe, and walk with what
we'd call a 'barrio swaggar'.
Only problem is, they were talking about the Saami and Gypsies, who
are just as white as I am. The diff is not skin color, but the genetic
endowment that comes of 10,000 years as yeoman farmers, whereas these
two European tribes were nomads, with very different views of private
property and personal relationships. This is because of the genetic
propensity in minority gene pools to have more alpha males.
Their hunter/nomad lifestyle required more aggressive hunters and
warriors to acquire resources and defend the tribe. The yeoman farmers
were far more often beta males, content to stay home and manage their
own resource base rather than seek opportunistically to acquire
whatever else was out there from who ever had it.
Ever since the invention of the bronze axe in Transylvania 7000 years
ago, a young couple could go into the vast forests of Europe to
homestead. If the man did not respect the rights of a woman, she could
flee into the same woods and look for a man who would. Being brave,
with the strong right arm, sword in hand... just didnt cut it.
History, of course, has been written by the scribes in the pay of the
warrior class, so you dont pick that up there. But more recently,
archaeology has left the carved marble monuments of the cities and
looked at these obscure yeoman farmsteads, which were scattered all
over obscure corners of Europe where most people, who are not
mentioned in the Histories, actually lived.
If you didnt manage your resources properly, put up enuf food and
firewood for the winter, your kids died, and you were out of the gene
pool. This kind of appeal to *sustainability* is coded in the DNA of
many Native Europeans. In other cultures the witches and shamen did
what we now call 'case management', raising the kids of incompetent
parents because the kids mite carry immune markers to survive plagues.
The elders also managed the resource bases, and would still be at it,
but the charity of Christian Native Europeans provided food, but not
birth control, so the numbers in the tribes are no longer sustainable
in their own ecosystems.
Even if non-whites are inclined to worry about the environment, they
are so short on resources they dont have the remaining assets to do
anything about it. Moreover, since they descended from tribal
settings, they dont think in terms of personal property, and therefore
dont have a personal relationship with the environment. The yeoman
starts out learning the personal relationship to the land, which
extends outward to global effects on it; it is felt more intensely at
the personal level, and motivates their descendants now to try to
manage global resources.
In the tribal cultures, pandemics have always broken out, and then
died back as the survivors had better immune systems. 5000 years ago
the first hill forts appear in Europe, which drew alpha males from the
area into their power structures. They would be lived in for a few
decades, perhaps a century or two, then suddenly abandoned. The arts
of hygiene had not been worked out, and the warrior classes died like
flies while the remote yeoman, living in defacto quaranteen survived.
Then, a few centuries later, more hill forts appeared. And this cycle
went on into the era of written records about the Black Death.
Tribal cultures had always been exposed, and never saw the same rate
of disaster. That is, except for the Native Americans, who became
infected from the Greenland Norse, and who died off in even larger
numbers. And like the European hill forts, places like Cahokia were
suddenly abandoned in the 13th century. It was lots harder on Native
Americans because they lacked the metal gardening tools of Native
Europeans.
They also lacked turnips. European folklore is full of references to
tubers. When armies came into an area, the yeoman families took what
they could carry fleeing into the forest, and buried the rest of their
tubers. You cant do that with grain. When the soldiers arrived, both
the women and food were gone. their spartan lifestyle also meant that
there was no gold. No pussy. No food. whole armies were starved out.
Most notably, Napoleon in Russia. that has a lot to do with why they
still like borscht.
Again, it was the alpha male warriors who died, and the men who
respected the rights of women who lived. The maternal, nurturant
instincts of women are far more powerful in white culture, and this
extends to what we now call 'green consciousness'. and indeed, much of
the green movement is dominated by white women. |
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