It occurred, as the Rigveda establishes, in the context of racial stratification.
Differences in social power between men and women: males from populations with more power tend to pair with females from populations with less.
He calls this pattern of asymmetric population mixture disturbingly familiar.
This pattern was certainly disturbing to the subject population.
But hey, that was and is what getting subjugated is all about!
Getting subjugated by China is hardly going to be a picnic, or a walk in Central Park, for the likes of the primates of Park Avenue, baby.
It did not disturb the dominant population so much, although it would have troubled both dominant females, and subjugated males very much. Sometimes these deeply troubled groups made perverse common cause too.
Eunuchs in the Seraglio is a locus classicus!
Soul On Ice, "The Allegory of the Black Eunuchs"...........
But hey, that was and is what getting subjugated is all about!
Getting subjugated by China is hardly going to be a picnic, or a walk in Central Park, for the likes of the primates of Park Avenue, baby.
It did not disturb the dominant population so much, although it would have troubled both dominant females, and subjugated males very much. Sometimes these deeply troubled groups made perverse common cause too.
Eunuchs in the Seraglio is a locus classicus!
Soul On Ice, "The Allegory of the Black Eunuchs"...........
In the case of Reich's analogy of racial mixing re African Americans, p 137, it was nothing less than a national disgrace and a national disaster for most all white people at that time, in the 1860s, regardless of their views on slavery, especially from the perspective of northerners, who thought they fought the Civil War to arrest and to prevent it.
The example of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, an incredibly scandalous story for colonial white Americans, is instructive of the views and feelings of all white colonists in the 18th century regarding race mixing.
It may well be that the struggle between the pure and impure forces with which the RigVeda opens is precisely the kind of struggle that Northern white racist purists thought they were waging against an impure and expansive Southern confederacy of color.
The example of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, an incredibly scandalous story for colonial white Americans, is instructive of the views and feelings of all white colonists in the 18th century regarding race mixing.
It may well be that the struggle between the pure and impure forces with which the RigVeda opens is precisely the kind of struggle that Northern white racist purists thought they were waging against an impure and expansive Southern confederacy of color.
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