JC Denton wrote on Nov 17
th, 2010 at 6:05pm:
It matters for the same reason that family matters. A race is just a big extended family and many people have an implicit or explicit preference for their own race. The ethnic phenomeon is very difficult to understand if you just think of it in terms of just one, single loyality. It doesn't work that way at all in reality and people have various loyalities and ingroup and outgroup senses. People organize themselves into various groups and race appears to be indisputably a major aspect of that. Wesley put it that people just prefer people who are like themselves, and because race is a major part of who we are ourselves (in terms of how we look and act) an incontrovertible ethnic phenomeon emerges. This is true all over the world.
http://www.amazon.com/Conflicts-Explained-Nepotism-Research-Biopolitics/dp/0762305835
It doesn't matter that much to me personally, though I will admit I do feel far more comfortable around people who are white and am almost entirely only attracted to white (though I acknowledge the high average level of beauty of Oriental women) women. Even if you don't believe that what I say about HBD (that say, a psychometric intelligence etc. is important and contributes significantly to the variance in life outcomes) is true, if it is true it in itself is not sufficient to create some kind of exclusive immigration policy or even an immigration policy that takes race into account because there is too much overlap between the races in these traits (and that obviously, whites take a second place to Oriental East-Asians) It is the potential consequences of the multiethnic phenomeon, and admittedly some subjective factors, that drives my desire to retain a relatively homogenous society, though this doesn't mean I think "only white people should be allowed to come here".
And no, I don't think the things I am describing are social constructions.
I don't think it's an unreasonable opinion to take. I'm not the one advocating lebenstraum, mistreatment of foreign peoples, invading Muslim countries, etc. Ideally I like to think of myself as a pan-nationalist who advocates self-determination for all peoples and nations. Though this would probably be naive given the actual reality of geopolitics, which you seem to "get".
Imperium, pan-nationalism was about
developing countries creating their own national destinies. It was not about race. It was a response to colonialism and the continued exploitation of developing by developed countries. It came from a position of weakness and exploitation. You can't say the "white race" is exploited. Only Nazis and the KKK would go on about it being weakened.
You're not talking about pan nationalism here, but a system of Aparteid.
I can't think of one aspect of my life where race is a factor: the workplace, school, where I shop, who I hang out with, my extended family. Why would anyone feel more or less comfortable around one particular race or another? You might as well love or hate redheads, or people with beards or glasses.
Your family idea is not realistic in a globalized world. I know so many interracial families it would be ludicrous to suggest that part of them is white - or that part of their kids' blood is white, or mulatto, or quarter-caste. It's a silly way to categorise people, and it makes no sense. The world has moved on from such a colonial discourse because the economy itself has changed.
In a nutshell, we've moved from an economy driven by slavery to one of wage-labour. We now live in a world of globalized capital, and this requires globalized labour too. Sure, it would be nice to return to the days of national autonomy, tariffs, the currency gold standard, nationalised industry, full employment - but I doubt that this will be possible any time soon. But the White Australia Policy? Why?
Race itself is a social construction. In Britain, the Celts were colonised by the Romans, and then the Angles, Saxons and Normans. If Africans had got up there, I guess I'd have a different race. A country's race is determined by its
history, and its history is determined by its politics and economy.
If you only feel comfortable around whites, this could be a problem. It's not up to the world to change, but you. If you find yourself wondering, for example, whether a friend, co-worker or lover has a touch of the tarbrush in them, I'd definately see this as something that clouds your thinking and limits your ability to accept people as they are.
We have reason so that we can cure our prejudices, not back them up with half-baked theories. Theories don't exist for the sake of having theories - they should be there to help us to change the world or ourselves for the better.
If a belief-system alienates you, others, or seeks to divide, it's wrong. People are obsessed with changing things around them - things that, let's face it, will never change. They bleat on about this or that; blaming and judging, and deluding themselves in the process. Wesley Pipes thinks that the White Australia Policy is coming back. Not one mainstream party has this as a policy but, it'll happen soon...
What is possible is to change yourself. It's hard, often lonely, and it takes time. But we're not going to change others - we very rarely do. Others have to change themselves.
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