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		<title>By: Michael O'Meara</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael O'Meara</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Clarification: My initial comment referred to an earlier, highly corrupted, version that appeared here.  The above is the original version, minus its corruptions.</description>
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		<title>By: zrxodxam</title>
		<link>http://www.toqonline.com/blog/race-culture-and-anarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-14116</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Genevieve</title>
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		<dc:creator>Genevieve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What I find so interesting is you could never find this aywnhere else.</description>
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		<title>By: Zalmoxis</title>
		<link>http://www.toqonline.com/blog/race-culture-and-anarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-13814</link>
		<dc:creator>Zalmoxis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would like to comment regarding the supposed genetic difference between Celts and Northern European Ingwine confederates. These two groups are both Nordic racially. Therefore there cannot be any significant genetic difference between the two, at least not a significant difference enough to require us to consider them separate in race or sub-race. 

The only practical divisions of the general White-European race are the two-race classification made by Thomas H. Huxley or the three race classification made by William Z. Ripley and Madison Grant. 

But in general, this overt obsession with differences between smaller groups within Europe is ridiculous. There is hardly anything reasonable about splitting Celts and Germans genetically, considering how incredibly similar the two are. Francis Parker Yockey took it too far when he dismissed the importance of biological race and over-emphasized the idea that race is only spiritual (although I&#039;m not denying a spiritual aspect to race here),but sometimes one can understand why a man can become disgusted with all this useless extensive racial or sub-racial division of Europeans that goes against our natural feelings about genetic divisions. 

An obsession with genetic differences between White peoples is what I would  call race-materialism and it is something that we need to avoid if we wish to unite and survive as a race.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would like to comment regarding the supposed genetic difference between Celts and Northern European Ingwine confederates. These two groups are both Nordic racially. Therefore there cannot be any significant genetic difference between the two, at least not a significant difference enough to require us to consider them separate in race or sub-race. </p>
<p>The only practical divisions of the general White-European race are the two-race classification made by Thomas H. Huxley or the three race classification made by William Z. Ripley and Madison Grant. </p>
<p>But in general, this overt obsession with differences between smaller groups within Europe is ridiculous. There is hardly anything reasonable about splitting Celts and Germans genetically, considering how incredibly similar the two are. Francis Parker Yockey took it too far when he dismissed the importance of biological race and over-emphasized the idea that race is only spiritual (although I&#8217;m not denying a spiritual aspect to race here),but sometimes one can understand why a man can become disgusted with all this useless extensive racial or sub-racial division of Europeans that goes against our natural feelings about genetic divisions. </p>
<p>An obsession with genetic differences between White peoples is what I would  call race-materialism and it is something that we need to avoid if we wish to unite and survive as a race.</p>
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		<title>By: Rudel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rudel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Celts and Saxons were not the same people, at all.&quot;

While that is certainly true recent studies have shown that 75% of the ancestors of modern Englishman settled in Britain between 15,000 and 7,500 years ago.  While most Englishmen have Frisian blood due to the apartheid rules of the Saxon kings between 500 and 800 AD where the upper classes took Briton wives but not vice versa the total number of Saxon invaders was just at most around 100,000 and more likely between 10,000 and 25,000 so even after 300 years of Saxon breeding practices the total effect was not that of replacement of the existing population.  The Viking and Norman invasions were much smaller and had even less total effect.

Here is a current Hapmap of Europe based on genes associated with asthma.  Note the rather small number of green Germanic data points compared to the sea of yellow Celtic ones in Britain.

http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/genmapeuropeA.jpg</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Celts and Saxons were not the same people, at all.&#8221;</p>
<p>While that is certainly true recent studies have shown that 75% of the ancestors of modern Englishman settled in Britain between 15,000 and 7,500 years ago.  While most Englishmen have Frisian blood due to the apartheid rules of the Saxon kings between 500 and 800 AD where the upper classes took Briton wives but not vice versa the total number of Saxon invaders was just at most around 100,000 and more likely between 10,000 and 25,000 so even after 300 years of Saxon breeding practices the total effect was not that of replacement of the existing population.  The Viking and Norman invasions were much smaller and had even less total effect.</p>
<p>Here is a current Hapmap of Europe based on genes associated with asthma.  Note the rather small number of green Germanic data points compared to the sea of yellow Celtic ones in Britain.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/genmapeuropeA.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/genmapeuropeA.jpg</a></p>
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		<title>By: Leon Haller</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leon Haller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Another stupid question, Dr. O&#039;Meara. If you possess a doctorate, why are you not teaching (ie are a blue collar worker)? I&#039;m probably posting this too late to be seen but I&#039;d really like to know. You are fantastically learned. I know because I am familiar with many of the works you cite, but you are familiar with many beyond those we have in common. Did you ever try to get a normal job in academia?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another stupid question, Dr. O&#8217;Meara. If you possess a doctorate, why are you not teaching (ie are a blue collar worker)? I&#8217;m probably posting this too late to be seen but I&#8217;d really like to know. You are fantastically learned. I know because I am familiar with many of the works you cite, but you are familiar with many beyond those we have in common. Did you ever try to get a normal job in academia?</p>
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		<title>By: Regina</title>
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		<dc:creator>Regina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ernest Renan,great thinker!I only recently discovered him.There&#039;s an article about him in wikipedia.com.In the french wikipedia it is said that Renan &quot;did not hide his admiration for the jews&quot;.The german wikipedia however quotes some other  ideas by Renan such as : &quot;Semites are alien to military,political,scientifical and spiritual progress;intolerance is the natural consequence of their monotheism,wich  contaminated the Arians imbued in polytheism...their arrogant delusion of choseness is responsable for the 1800 years old hatred against them.&quot;    
When he compared Sanskrit to Hebrew he came to the conclusion that &quot;the awfull simpleness of the semitic mind would shrink the human brain and oppose every higher human spiritual and intellectual achievement&quot; and mused about.&quot;the terrible vulgarity of the semitic mind that shuts the human brain to every subtle representation, every sensitiveness of feeling,every rational investigation, and forever opposes it  the blunt tautology &quot;God is God&quot;.
Stark judgement isn&#039;it?
Whenever now in the morning I pick up my newspaper (reputed as serious)  and read under the heading  &quot;Culture&quot;  articles  about Lady Gaga our Madonna or Snoop Doggy Dog, I remember his words!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ernest Renan,great thinker!I only recently discovered him.There&#8217;s an article about him in wikipedia.com.In the french wikipedia it is said that Renan &#8220;did not hide his admiration for the jews&#8221;.The german wikipedia however quotes some other  ideas by Renan such as : &#8220;Semites are alien to military,political,scientifical and spiritual progress;intolerance is the natural consequence of their monotheism,wich  contaminated the Arians imbued in polytheism&#8230;their arrogant delusion of choseness is responsable for the 1800 years old hatred against them.&#8221;<br />
When he compared Sanskrit to Hebrew he came to the conclusion that &#8220;the awfull simpleness of the semitic mind would shrink the human brain and oppose every higher human spiritual and intellectual achievement&#8221; and mused about.&#8221;the terrible vulgarity of the semitic mind that shuts the human brain to every subtle representation, every sensitiveness of feeling,every rational investigation, and forever opposes it  the blunt tautology &#8220;God is God&#8221;.<br />
Stark judgement isn&#8217;it?<br />
Whenever now in the morning I pick up my newspaper (reputed as serious)  and read under the heading  &#8220;Culture&#8221;  articles  about Lady Gaga our Madonna or Snoop Doggy Dog, I remember his words!</p>
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		<title>By: East Angle</title>
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		<dc:creator>East Angle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is genetic evidence for difference between so-called Celts and Northern European Ingwine confederates (Frisians, Saxons, Geats, Angles).  Please see http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/19/7/1008 for evidence for genetic replacement of Britons by North European Ingwine confederates.  
Celts and Saxons werenot the same people, at all.  There is more genetic difference between them than between Norman (Dane) and Saxon.  Please see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1635457/ for further analysis.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is genetic evidence for difference between so-called Celts and Northern European Ingwine confederates (Frisians, Saxons, Geats, Angles).  Please see <a target="_blank" href="http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/19/7/1008" rel="nofollow">http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/19/7/1008</a> for evidence for genetic replacement of Britons by North European Ingwine confederates.<br />
Celts and Saxons werenot the same people, at all.  There is more genetic difference between them than between Norman (Dane) and Saxon.  Please see <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1635457/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1635457/</a> for further analysis.</p>
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		<title>By: KGL</title>
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		<dc:creator>KGL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>“The classic thing white students say when you ask them to talk about who they are is, ‘I don’t have a culture.’”
- University sociologist

This is truly sad, given that my first response would be that you are the inheritors of the genetic aristocracy of the West. The cultures that gave the world Gothic architecture, Mozart, Beethoven, the Magna Carta, the list goes on and on. It is a measure of how the &quot;de-education&quot; process has succeeded in universities across the land when Shakespeare can be trashed for  patently mediocre authors like Toni Morrison (a Nobel Prize, no less!) and Amy Tan. 

It seems that our young people need to see and hear about some contemporary leading lights in our people. I was watching a Discovery channel episode on quantum physics the other day, and guess what? All of the top physicists were white and European. We still command the lead in so many areas...I guess physics just isn&#039;t sexy enough.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“The classic thing white students say when you ask them to talk about who they are is, ‘I don’t have a culture.’”<br />
- University sociologist</p>
<p>This is truly sad, given that my first response would be that you are the inheritors of the genetic aristocracy of the West. The cultures that gave the world Gothic architecture, Mozart, Beethoven, the Magna Carta, the list goes on and on. It is a measure of how the &#8220;de-education&#8221; process has succeeded in universities across the land when Shakespeare can be trashed for  patently mediocre authors like Toni Morrison (a Nobel Prize, no less!) and Amy Tan. </p>
<p>It seems that our young people need to see and hear about some contemporary leading lights in our people. I was watching a Discovery channel episode on quantum physics the other day, and guess what? All of the top physicists were white and European. We still command the lead in so many areas&#8230;I guess physics just isn&#8217;t sexy enough.</p>
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		<title>By: FritoPendejo</title>
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		<dc:creator>FritoPendejo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The only bit that stroke me as odd is this:

&gt; Multiculturalism serves in this way as the proxy of multiculturalism

I think the former should read &quot;multiracialism&quot;
I&#039;m afraid my English is not as good as I thought it was  =p
Very insightful piece, one of the best I&#039;ve read in this site so far!</description>
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<p>&gt; Multiculturalism serves in this way as the proxy of multiculturalism</p>
<p>I think the former should read &#8220;multiracialism&#8221;<br />
I&#8217;m afraid my English is not as good as I thought it was  =p<br />
Very insightful piece, one of the best I&#8217;ve read in this site so far!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael O'Meara</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael O'Meara</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Leon,

This piece originally appeared in the print version of The Occidental Quarterly 9:2 (Summer 2009).  Sam Phillips apparently had to re-type it (above and beyond the call of duty, I would say), which accounts for the numerous dropped words and unintelligiable sentences of this version.

Like a few other revolutionaries associated with white nationalism, I am a blue-collar worker, who writes on weekends -- and in the spirit of Lenin&#039;s What Is To be Done?  I wish it were otherwise, but &quot;We Irish&quot; are still not allowed into the salons or classrooms of America&#039;s low-church empire.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leon,</p>
<p>This piece originally appeared in the print version of The Occidental Quarterly 9:2 (Summer 2009).  Sam Phillips apparently had to re-type it (above and beyond the call of duty, I would say), which accounts for the numerous dropped words and unintelligiable sentences of this version.</p>
<p>Like a few other revolutionaries associated with white nationalism, I am a blue-collar worker, who writes on weekends &#8212; and in the spirit of Lenin&#8217;s What Is To be Done?  I wish it were otherwise, but &#8220;We Irish&#8221; are still not allowed into the salons or classrooms of America&#8217;s low-church empire.</p>
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		<title>By: Patrick McGuigan</title>
		<link>http://www.toqonline.com/blog/race-culture-and-anarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-11101</link>
		<dc:creator>Patrick McGuigan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Remarkable. I have a great distaste for the cultural relativism that seems to pervade the thoughts of white people in the US.  However, the  fear of judging others based on their activities or beliefs simply because they are different from the European standard is nothing less than moral cowardice. Our refusal to believe in the connection between blood and culture has caused us to bend over backwards trying to figure out why our social programs seem to have no affect on the black population of this country.  The government provides education, training and corporations are bending over backwards to hire non-whites and all this has had little to no affect on their lives. None-the-less, our airways are filled with what must be considered the most savage and morally debased music in the history of mankind - Hip hop - and a greater percentage of our people mix with them - inevitably lowering themselves to their standard rather than bringing them up to ours.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remarkable. I have a great distaste for the cultural relativism that seems to pervade the thoughts of white people in the US.  However, the  fear of judging others based on their activities or beliefs simply because they are different from the European standard is nothing less than moral cowardice. Our refusal to believe in the connection between blood and culture has caused us to bend over backwards trying to figure out why our social programs seem to have no affect on the black population of this country.  The government provides education, training and corporations are bending over backwards to hire non-whites and all this has had little to no affect on their lives. None-the-less, our airways are filled with what must be considered the most savage and morally debased music in the history of mankind &#8211; Hip hop &#8211; and a greater percentage of our people mix with them &#8211; inevitably lowering themselves to their standard rather than bringing them up to ours.</p>
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		<title>By: Leon Haller</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leon Haller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does it say &quot;Your comment is awaiting moderation&quot; before my post? Please don&#039;t tell me that I&#039;m being censored even here, as everywhere else!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does it say &#8220;Your comment is awaiting moderation&#8221; before my post? Please don&#8217;t tell me that I&#8217;m being censored even here, as everywhere else!</p>
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		<title>By: Leon Haller</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leon Haller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent piece. 

I&#039;d like to ask the author some perhaps stupid or at least possibly ignorant questions. Was this article intended for publication in TOQ? If not, was it intended for publication elsewhere, and simply posted here for general interest? Will you get paid for it? If not, how can you possibly find the time to write something so detailed and, well, &#039;academic&#039;, for free?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent piece. </p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to ask the author some perhaps stupid or at least possibly ignorant questions. Was this article intended for publication in TOQ? If not, was it intended for publication elsewhere, and simply posted here for general interest? Will you get paid for it? If not, how can you possibly find the time to write something so detailed and, well, &#8216;academic&#8217;, for free?</p>
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		<title>By: ps79</title>
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		<dc:creator>ps79</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Awesome!</description>
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		<title>By: PV</title>
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		<dc:creator>PV</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent essay.</description>
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		<title>By: Samuel J. Phillips</title>
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		<dc:creator>Samuel J. Phillips</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It would be easier if you could send me the file. In typing out 12,000+ words, there are bound to be errors.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It would be easier if you could send me the file. In typing out 12,000+ words, there are bound to be errors.</p>
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		<title>By: Bud Frank</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bud Frank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Assuming a &quot;faithful remnant&quot;  makes it through, the ongoing destruction of our present &quot;culture&quot; might be  just what the doctor ordered.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Assuming a &#8220;faithful remnant&#8221;  makes it through, the ongoing destruction of our present &#8220;culture&#8221; might be  just what the doctor ordered.</p>
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		<title>By: Bud Frank</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bud Frank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow.</description>
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		<title>By: Steven E. Romer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steven E. Romer</dc:creator>
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		<description>Very interesting article on the changing definitions of &quot;culture&quot;. I think that Europeans above all peoples are prone to being open and objective (unless under tyranny) to changing definitions, changing patterns -- all so that our best minds (arising in the gene-pool like clockwork) can make a dynamic and truth-following adaptive unit out of it. Culture is not a political unit to us so much as a truth unit for us, and other races seem to have a more static (asian) or political (africans) orientation to their cultures. 

That is why I liked this part of the definitions especially:
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For Arnold culture is:

&quot;the pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world; and through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits.26&quot;

Culture in this is self-culture: that is, the self-cultivation of man’s being through a formation in the finest achievements of his civilization. Hence, the definition found in older editions of the OED: “The training, development, refinement of mind, tastes, and manners.”

For Arnold the striving to improve and enhance oneself (”perfection”) was the ideal state of the mind, just as health was the ideal state of the body.
Culture here is more a state of mind than a body of knowledge. For the mind’s love of perfection implies a process of becoming rather than of obtaining, designating an inward condition higher or greater than outward materialism. 
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That is the real definition of what culture should be -- not the behaviors that pass for &quot;culture&quot; to modern minds like rap music and gangster &quot;culture&quot;. Culture is toward truth and perfection and everything that symbolizes these things.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very interesting article on the changing definitions of &#8220;culture&#8221;. I think that Europeans above all peoples are prone to being open and objective (unless under tyranny) to changing definitions, changing patterns &#8212; all so that our best minds (arising in the gene-pool like clockwork) can make a dynamic and truth-following adaptive unit out of it. Culture is not a political unit to us so much as a truth unit for us, and other races seem to have a more static (asian) or political (africans) orientation to their cultures. </p>
<p>That is why I liked this part of the definitions especially:<br />
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For Arnold culture is:</p>
<p>&#8220;the pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world; and through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits.26&#8243;</p>
<p>Culture in this is self-culture: that is, the self-cultivation of man’s being through a formation in the finest achievements of his civilization. Hence, the definition found in older editions of the OED: “The training, development, refinement of mind, tastes, and manners.”</p>
<p>For Arnold the striving to improve and enhance oneself (”perfection”) was the ideal state of the mind, just as health was the ideal state of the body.<br />
Culture here is more a state of mind than a body of knowledge. For the mind’s love of perfection implies a process of becoming rather than of obtaining, designating an inward condition higher or greater than outward materialism.<br />
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<p>That is the real definition of what culture should be &#8212; not the behaviors that pass for &#8220;culture&#8221; to modern minds like rap music and gangster &#8220;culture&#8221;. Culture is toward truth and perfection and everything that symbolizes these things.</p>
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