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The Racial Basis of Civilization: A Critique of the Nordic Doctrine

By Iranian for Aryans

I read this work by the sociologist Frank Hankins about three weeks ago. The subtitle interested me. I, a Nordicist, wanted to review this work that I read well nigh a decade ago.

Overall, my (not very erudite) opinion (I did a lot of skimming) on this work is overwhelmingly positive. He has a great deal of insight into the many vagaries, sillinesses, and contradictions of classical Nordicist treatises, a la Grant, Stoddard, and H.S. Chamberlain. Be that as it may, I thought Hankins too virulent on his attack against Nordicism. Perhaps this is due simply to my espousal of such a view? Maybe, but I think that he didn’t drive the positive points of Nordicism home, something to the effect, “Yes, the creative elements of Europe are not overwhelmingly “pure” Nordics, like the Scandinavian-types, however, almost all (if not all) creative elements have Nordic genes.” Further, in support of my Nordicist view, Hankins doesn’t make note of the fact that Nordic countries are ahead of their Alpine and Med. cohorts. Indeed, though he is right, namely, that pure Nordics are not the majority of the creators, still the majority of the creators are overwhelmingly Nordic.

Actually, I wish Hankins would have done work on “non-White” civilizations, say like those of the Pacific and the New World. If he would have delved into that, he would have found a blow or setback at the minimum to his anti-Nordicist treatise; e.g., Nordics created the civilizations of the Americas plus those of the Pacific. So, I might ask Hankins where the Alpines and Meds were in these doings. Incidentally, Meds have had transactions on the west coast of Africa and the New World, but Nordics have been proclaimed as the progenitors of these “indigenous” civilizations.

To the above, we can also include the Nordics who ran “amuck” in ancient Egypt, western China (Xinjiang Province), and elsewhere in the Old World. Those Nordics brought their intrepid wunderlust and creative abilities to the native peoples. Yes, perhaps the Nordic Warrior-Kings might not have been Scandinavian-types, but they were Nordic, nonetheless; vide the blue-eyed Buddha, the blue-eyed Bodhidharma (founder of Zen Buddhism and Martial Arts; I am going to write about this in a journal in the near future), and whatnot. Historically, Nordics have been the upper-crust of non-Nordic societies.

Notwithstanding what I have written so far, I do think that Hankins was a bit “soft” on the “race business”. He wrote something to the effect that America will be blessed by high-ranking Chinese, Hebrews, and Indians, and that it’s our sociological prejudice that would not allow such intrusion of foreigners and their eventual, and beneficial, amalgamation.

Obviously, I’m dead against this kind of mixing. Yes, intraracial mixing is beneficial if done between sound stocks, say, Germans and Swedes or Danes and Brits, as they are both Nordics.

Anyway, the Japanese are a living example that miscegenation does not necessarily lead to sordid affairs, say like mulattos, but can lead to an honorable, sedulous people. I think such a mix has resulted in a loss of Nordic creativity. Overall, I’m vehemently against Japanese mixing w/Nordics as it dilutes Nordic creativity, yet, I still realize that there’s racial mixing and then there’s racial mixing.