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A Letter from a Grandfather to his Genes, Part 5 (Conclusion)
Read Part 1 here.Read Part 2 here.Read Part 3 here.Read Part 4 here.13. How do you explain the fact that a major football rivalry for Tunisians seems to be with other North Africans, Moroccans, rather than with people more distantly related?Because Morocco is there. Close by. That’s one answer. But this is a frequent phenomenon in sport and is essentially the same issue as in...
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A Letter from a Grandfather to his Genes, Part 4
Read Part 1 here.Read Part 2 here.Read Part 3 here.11. Doesn’t the success of multiculturalism show that having the same ancestry is not necessary for a harmonious society as long as people do speak a common language? It depends on how much “harmony” you would settle for. To achieve the harmony of an ethnically homogeneous nation, you would need more than just a common...
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A Letter from a Grandfather to his Genes, Part 3
Read Part 1 here.Read Part 2 here.6. How do we reach reciprocity from “might-makes-right”?The same way it was done in the Wild West. Try to introduce the “rule of law” (a form of reciprocity insofar as it results from social contract, not imposition) and hire good sheriffs who shoot straight—something never appreciated by the outlaws or by governments of powerful...
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A Letter from a Grandfather to his Genes, Part 2
Read Part 1 here.3. Why aren’t the nearly 100 percent of our genes that everyone shares more important than those few that vary?Indeed, around 99.9 percent of all the genes that a human being carries can be found in all other humans, and 98 percent in chimpanzees. Similar percentages of shared genes are found in most other animal species. So obviously it’s the tiny handful of...
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A Letter from a Grandfather to his Genes, Part 1
Editor’s Note: The following essay is a slightly revised version of one that appeared in print in The Occidental Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1 (Spring 2005). For ease of online reading, it is presented here without notes, which can be found in the archived version of the print edition. I should, however, mention that Dr. Hilton’s argument is heavily indebted to Frank...
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Ragnar Redbeard’s Might Is Right or the Survival of the Fittest
From The Occidental Observer, September 29, 2009Note: In biology, “adaptive” means (very precisely) promoting the survival and reproduction of an organism’s genes. “Natural selection” is the logical and empirical process whereby forces of nature affect the survival and reproduction of some genes over others. The terms, “natural selection” and “selection...
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About A Conversation about Race
from The Occidental Observer, June 1, 2009“A Conversation about Race” is a film by Craig Bodeker concerning some silly but insidious misconceptions (or misconceptualizations) concerning “race” and “racism” that have become a standard aspect of Western ideology. The film, available as a DVD, was wonderfully reviewed by Greg Johnson in The Occidental...
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