has been no more good for early or modern humans than homogenization and GMO of crops and livestock will prove to have been in agriculture, regardless of what Reich says, or his research appears to him to show. See Reich, p. 95 to 97, etc.
He says scholars living 10,000 years ago would have called the four groups combining into West Eurasians races...
How should one characterize this remark? Is it a straight Whig interpretation? No. Is it an attempt to place onesself into the mind of early humans? Maybe. It does deal with aspects of physical bodily appearance, rather than culture. It does acknowledge that ancient humans perceived and acted on differences among populations.
It is a vast improvement on some anti white racism apologists trying to make a case that racial differences were generally not perceived or acted on, by anyone, ever, until the institution of negro slavery around 1400 or so. Or, the ultra Whig position of my wife and others, that it did not even happen until Jim Crow!
(To counterract this ridiculous notion, see for example Winthrop Jordan, White Over Black, American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550 -1812 . See his discussions of Canaan and Ham, and England. He somehow missed Moses and Aaron's dispute over Zipporah. Our public library system, in this large highly populous, rich, so called educated, resort county, does not even own a copy. While I don't agree with Jordan's blaming mainly Britain for white racism and negro slavery, itself a ridiculous idea in context of Europe wide imperialism and negro slaving, and of Muslim age old negro slaving, he must be one of the very few historians who ever won 2 Bancroft Prizes.)
He, Reich, talks lovingly of the so called Industrial Revolution, or the Information Revolution, as analogous to the wholesome cultural intermixing, leading toward a global 'very low level of genetic intermixing' already found in ancient West Eurasia, call it Reich's Uniracialism, now going on under helter skelter globalization.
The extinction of whole species by human environmental misadventure has been an unmixed disaster, not an example of the homogenization process called progress.
He says scholars living 10,000 years ago would have called the four groups combining into West Eurasians races...
How should one characterize this remark? Is it a straight Whig interpretation? No. Is it an attempt to place onesself into the mind of early humans? Maybe. It does deal with aspects of physical bodily appearance, rather than culture. It does acknowledge that ancient humans perceived and acted on differences among populations.
It is a vast improvement on some anti white racism apologists trying to make a case that racial differences were generally not perceived or acted on, by anyone, ever, until the institution of negro slavery around 1400 or so. Or, the ultra Whig position of my wife and others, that it did not even happen until Jim Crow!
(To counterract this ridiculous notion, see for example Winthrop Jordan, White Over Black, American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550 -1812 . See his discussions of Canaan and Ham, and England. He somehow missed Moses and Aaron's dispute over Zipporah. Our public library system, in this large highly populous, rich, so called educated, resort county, does not even own a copy. While I don't agree with Jordan's blaming mainly Britain for white racism and negro slavery, itself a ridiculous idea in context of Europe wide imperialism and negro slaving, and of Muslim age old negro slaving, he must be one of the very few historians who ever won 2 Bancroft Prizes.)
He, Reich, talks lovingly of the so called Industrial Revolution, or the Information Revolution, as analogous to the wholesome cultural intermixing, leading toward a global 'very low level of genetic intermixing' already found in ancient West Eurasia, call it Reich's Uniracialism, now going on under helter skelter globalization.
The extinction of whole species by human environmental misadventure has been an unmixed disaster, not an example of the homogenization process called progress.
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