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Thread ID: 12059 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2004-01-28
2004-01-28 13:35 | User Profile
Very deep material here.
The Texas Mercury is new to me, and I'm not exactly sure what to make of it, so I foreward this for interest only.
[url]http://www.thetexasmercury.com/articles/cantrell/JC20031124.html[/url]
Adopting Culture
Jimmy Cantrell
As the Hans Christian Andersen tale ââ¬ÅThe Emperorââ¬â¢s New Clothesââ¬Â suggests, most people, without imagining any need to question, will accept as true whatever is repeated endlessly, especially when those doing the talking are seen as experts holding positions of authority. The most horrible example may be the swallowing of the ââ¬Åfactsââ¬Â regarding human sexuality regurgitated by quintessential Modern Yankee WASP Professor Alfred Kinsey (perfervid* to ââ¬Åreform,ââ¬Â ââ¬Åprogressive,ââ¬Â trampling down acceptance of traditional views in order to free, etc.) and his circle, which just happened to provide one hundred percent support for the Sexual Revolution philosophy of atheist, socialist, Jew Wilhelm Reich.
Another of the things .................. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*PERFERVID Pronunciation: pur'furvid
WordNet Dictionary
Definition: [adj] characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"
Synonyms: ardent, burning(a), fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, passionate, torrid
2004-02-02 05:53 | User Profile
This is an excellent article because it refutes the idea that white skin was some sort of "privilege" as idiotic modern scholars argue. It's a point that needs to be made. I do have some reservations about this article because it demonizes WASP culture, which is just too easy a target nowdays.
(Despite Irish roots I have no resentment towards the English. That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and the Irish will always be proof to the world that a strong people can overcome the effects of colonisation and mistreatment within a generation or two, this article is too whinny about Celtic mistreatment. )
But one point of the article is good; the intolerance of WASP culture had very little to do with race or skin color; it had to do with the industrial culture developing in England(even before the industrial revolution of 1790.) Industrial society requires a high amount of homogenization so that workers are interchangeable. Thus industrial culture favored those who were most quickly able to adopt a uniform set of mannerisms and work habits. This is how the polish, Irish, German and other immigrants lost their identity and became "white". A similiar thing happened to the black races that arrived here. Race consciousness, if anything was less in anglo-saxon culture than in most other cultures. As long as this article is read with a little caution, it is informative.
-Llen
2004-02-02 07:09 | User Profile
[QUOTE=LlenLleawc]this article is too whinny about Celtic mistreatment. ) [/QUOTE]
Good eye, Llen. Cantrell makes some good points quite often, but problem is he's an extremely bigoted papist who always rather obnoxiously goes out of his way to knock Protestants of English stock. Thereby chopping the trunk of the very tree whose cultural, legal and political fruit gave him the ability to do what he does in the first place. Rather self-defeating if'n you ask me.
2004-02-02 08:08 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Cantrell makes some good points quite often, but problem is he's an extremely bigoted papist who always rather obnoxiously goes out of his way to knock Protestants of English stock. [/QUOTE]
I resemble that remark. :alucard:
Walter
2004-02-02 08:11 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]I resemble that remark. :alucard: [/QUOTE]
Dang! I can't slip nothin' past you, Walter. :lol: