QUOTE=Nile577
I think it's rather fatalistic, historically dubious and almost anti-life to posit that miscegenation inexorably leads to terminal and everlasting cultural and genetic decline: Newton and Shakespeare (WHO WAS BLACK LOL2006!1!) embody the cultural and scientific contributions of a primarily mixed-race society; while in Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilisation itself was formed by the intermixing of Ubaidian and Semitic tribes. All life has a history of miscegenation and this miscegenation is not always dysgenic.
"By about 4000 BC, most of the Fertile Crescent was occupied by Caucasians. Probably Semitic peoples had already begun to penetrate it by them too, their pressure grew until by the middle of the third millennium BC (well after the appearance of civilization) they would be well established in central Mesopotamia, across the middle sections of the Tigris and Euphrates. The interplay and rivalry off the Semitic peoples with the Caucasians, who were able to hang into the higher lands which enclosed Mesopotamia from the north-east, is one continuous theme that scholars have discerned in the early history of the area. By 2000 BC, the peoples whose languages form part of what is called the 'Indo-European' group have also entered the scene, and from two directions. One of these peoples, the Hittites, pushed into Anatolia from Europe, while their advance was matched from the east by that of the Iranians. Between 2000 BC and 1500 BC branches of these sub-units dispute and mingle with the Semitic and Caucasian peoples in the Crescent itself." -ROBERTS, J.M,, The Hutchinson History of the World, Hutchinson Publishing Group, first published 1976, page 62-63.
Indeed, March of the Titans also says this:
"As a result of this continual crossover of civilizations and shared geographical area, the racial distinctions of the peoples became more and more blurred, and towards the close of this epoch it becomes more and more difficult to identify clear racial groups as opposed to named cultures. Ultimately, the disappearance of the distinct racial groupings in the region led to the torch of civilization being passed to what were then more homogeneous societies - first in Egypt and then to the classical Greek and Roman civilizations."
Norsemaiden said:Gangsta culture is indeed promoted in such a way as to keep Blacks down, as Ptah Khnemu observed. But this is clearly not being done by White racists, as there is no sign of White racists being anything other than the "bogeymen" of modern culture. The true intention is to make White people also behave like Gangstas.
Norsemaiden said:And it is working very well, with increasing numbers doing so. There are very few non-Whites where I live, but the (especially underclass) White youth mostly seem to idolise rappers such as 50cent and Eminem. After playing a game of Grand Theft Auto, young boys openly talk to eachother of their ambition to be a pimp when they are older.
Norsemaiden said:Certain people want Whites to follow into the ghetto culture. This elite see it as essential to consolidation of their power. They educate their children separately from these "animals", and teach their children to see popular culture as a weapon to use against others, and certainlly not for their own consumption.
Norsemaiden said:All civilisations rise and fall according to their racial homogeneity and nothing else
The Ubaidians are the first people in the history of man for whose ethnic identity and cultural achievement we have linguistic evidence. To be sure, we do not know what they called themselves since writing was still unknown in their day, but clay documents of later Sumerian times make it apparent that they were not Sumerians. For example, the names by which the document writers referred to the Tigris and Euphrates - Idiglat and Buranun - are not Sumerian words and are therefore generally assumed to be of Ubaidian origin. It must have been the Ubaidians too who gave such names as Eridu, Ur, Lagash, Nippur and Kish to some of the villages and tows that later developed into large and impressive Sumerian cities. Even more important, it was from the language of this thriving and preposterous people that the Sumerians probably borrowed such culturally significant words as farmer, herdsman, plough, metalworker, weaver and carpenter.
But success and achievement breed envy among peoples as well as individuals, and it was not long before rivals appeared to challenge the Ubaidians standing as the sole occupants of southern Mesopotamia. Around the end of the fifth millennium B.C. some of the hordes of Semitic nomads inhabiting the Syrian Desert and the Arabian peninsula to the west began to infiltrate the Ubaidian settlements, both as conquerors in search of booty and as peaceful immigrants eager to better their lot. The resulting cross-fertilization of the two peoples and cultures, the Ubaidian and the Semitic, brought about a new and even more productive era during which it may be said that the foundations were laid for the world's first true civilization.
The builders of that civilization, the Sumerians, did not arrive upon the scene until about 3500 B.C., probably from Central Asia by way of Iran. With the advent of this third important group of people there took place in southern Mesopotamia an ethnic and cultural fusion that was to influence profoundly the future course of humanity...It was in these Sumerian cities of the late fourth and early third millennia B.C. that ancient man accomplished some of his most impressive achievements in art and architecture, in social organisation, in religious thought and practice and - with the invention of writing - in education and communication - Great Ages of Man - Cradle of Civilization, Samuel Noah Kramer, pages 32-33
infoterror said:You're talking about closely related ethnic groups there. The English were Angles, Saxons and Phoenicians, for the most part. These groups shared a common ancestor (Phoenicians were Semites, e.g. part Caucasian of the Alpine/Falid type).
Rome fell in part because it lost its cultural identity. Race hybridization was a big part of this.
If multiculturalism is such a good idea, why do you have so few examples?
.It was around 4000 BCE that a people called Sumerians moved into Mesopotamia, perhaps from around the Caspian Sea. By 3800 BCE the Sumerians had supplanted the Ubaidians and Semites in southern Mesopotamia. They built better canals for irrigating crops and for transporting crops by boat to village centers. They improved their roads, over which their donkeys trod, some of their donkeys pulling wheeled carts. And the Sumerians grew in number, the increase in population the key element in creating what we call civilization - a word derived from an ancient word for city.
At least twelve cities arose among the Sumerians. Among them were Ur, Uruk, Kish and Lagash - Ur, for example, becoming a city of about 24,000 people
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/wheel.htmBased on diagrams on ancient clay tablets, the earliest known use of this essential invention was a potters wheel that was used at Ur in Mesopotamia (part of modern day Iraq} as early as 3500 BC. The first use of the wheel for transportation was probably on Mesopotamian chariots in 3200 BC. It is interesting to note that wheels may have had industrial or manufacturing applications before they were used on vehicles.
infoterror said:Also note: potentially biased source.
infoterror said:You're talking about closely related ethnic groups there. The English were Angles, Saxons and Phoenicians, for the most part. These groups shared a common ancestor (Phoenicians were Semites, e.g. part Caucasian of the Alpine/Falid type).
Rome fell in part because it lost its cultural identity. Race hybridization was a big part of this.
If multiculturalism is such a good idea, why do you have so few examples?
Norsemaiden said:That saves me writing part of my answer. And it must be added that Britain's influxes of other white tribes in history have come as conquerors, not as refugees or a mass of slaves. Their qualities added postively to the population.
I am sure that you can't have failed to notice that, throughout the world, in the present day you can see many nations that have fallen from greatness and that a correlation between this and their lack of homogeneity exists. On the other hand, a country like China is very much on the rise. Race mixing has never caused a positive force for advancement and inventiveness. There is no reason to suppose that this effect was any different in the distant past.
Norsemaiden said:The Phoenicians were mentioned earlier. They traded with Britain around 10BC in Cornwall. They were a mixture of Old European, Indo-European and Semitic (Arab) speaking peoples. Their presence left a genetic trace in the Cornish population. Cornishmen have a more gypsie-like appearance, taller and darker than other English. They have a history of being smugglers and of killing shipwreck survivors and stealing the loot. But this is a very outdated observation considering the much larger influence of modern immigration on the British population.
The Spanish Empire was one of the first truly global empires. During the 16th century Spain and Portugal were in the vanguard of European global exploration and colonial expansion and the opening of trade routes across the oceans, with trade flourishing across the Atlantic between Spain and the Americas and across the Pacific between East Asia and Mexico via the Philippines. Castilian conquistadors toppled the Aztec and Inca civilizations and laid claim to vast stretches of land in North and South America. For a time, the Spanish Empire dominated the oceans with its experienced navy and ruled the European battlefield with its fearsome and well trained infantry, the famous tercios.
“The violent character of some acts inserted in the phenomenon of juvenile delinquency in groups” is beginning to alarm society, the report states. It is beginning to not be infrequent to read reports of attacks by gangs of young boys from shanty towns on hypermarkets, with security guards being beaten unconscious by groups of 30 or 40 youths armed with knives and baseball bats, who then proceed to terrorise the entire shopping centre, vandalising, stealing, beating and sexually abusing women. Last year, there was an attack on a train by a gang of boys of African origin. They streamed through the train attacking and robbing the passengers, chanting “We will rule here one day”.
Norsemaiden said:It is only by extreme good fortune that in 732, Karl Martel defeated the Muslim Arabs in the Battle of Tours in France, thereby preventing the conquest of all of Europe. How different might have been the history of Western Europe had the Muslims conquered!
Nevertheless, they did conquer Spain, bringing with them the Black Moors of Africa and the Semitic blood of the Arabs. It was not until 1492 that Isabella, the white queen of Spain, finally drove them out. In the same year Queen Isabella expelled the Jews from Spain, and Columbus sailed for America.
Having driven out the Moors and the Jews, Spain began the greatest and grandest period of her history and the next hundred years can be considered the golden age of Spain. This included the conquistadors conquering the Aztecs and taking control of Mexico and Peru.
From Wikepedia:
Nevertheless, the damage had been done. The almost thousand years of Moorish tenure in Spain and Portugal had permanently entered the bloodstream of those two nations and inflicted lasting damage. The empire became impossible to maintain and there has been nothing but mediocrity in the achievements of the people of Spain and Portugal ever since.
speed said:Of course, you do realize that from 800-1400, the Arab world was not only the most advanced in every single sphere, but one of tolerance and culture.
And of course, the early Spanish empire was extremely reactionary, and contributed to the slaughter and slavery of millions upon millions of "savages".
Norsemaiden said:Yes it was bad that they treated savages in such an uncivilised way. There were good points about the Muslims but it would have been absolutely tragic if the Muslims had succeeded in taking over all of Europe. Why would you say that the Muslim nations are so backward in the present day, stuck in an almost medieval time warp with regard to their culture?
This is nonsense. A lot of nations have been made in a way that there were waves of different conquerors. Even if that you can use reverse logic in a similar way and come to conclusion that if there are different waves of conquerors, people living there have experienced being constantly conquered by someone, so they should adopt slave-alike mentality.Norsemaiden said:That saves me writing part of my answer. And it must be added that Britain's influxes of other white tribes in history have come as conquerors, not as refugees or a mass of slaves. Their qualities added postively to the population.
NM You are intelligent woman but it does not stops you from being rassistic orinted to the point of ignoring everything that you have read and does not gets along with your views, and by assuming that when you read a number of books you can easily come with all kinds of concslussions. You can let your imagination fly high, and I am glad that you are creative and imaginative personality, but, unfortunately, China is not one nation in a monolitic way, actually it is very mixed, and it is just your rassistic ignorance I assume that makes you think that if they are all yellow and look similar to you, they must be one nation.Nile577, you are a very intelligent man, and I am sure that you can't have failed to notice that, throughout the world, in the present day you can see many nations that have fallen from greatness and that a correlation between this and their lack of homogeneity exists. On the other hand, a country like China is very much on the rise. Race mixing has never caused a positive force for advancement and inventiveness. There is no reason to suppose that this effect was any different in the distant past.
And that in turn, by your own merits you often use is proof that it was inferior, and didn't stand test of survival of the fittest. I can just the same say that Babylonian civilization was great but, unfortunatly it was military defeated, but it could otherwise be left intact.Various versions of history are written, and are affected by the political bias of the author. So the evidence of one's own experience, use of logic, and also other books read, must have a bearing on how plausible one version of history appears compared to another.
I will probably post again with regards to the quotation by the historian that you posted, but I'm in the process of gathering information.
In the case of National Socialist Germany, it was militiarily defeated, but the civilisation could otherwise have been left intact. However, the best of the Germans had been killed and racial mixing was immediately introduced.
This is funny. Arab world (as Speed has already pointed out) was way more advanced and civilized at that time. There are two reasons that Spain has rose quickly to power at that time: Ther was a military tradition after all those time of fighting, and second, they got knowledge from their highly civilized enemy and gold by conquering arab theoritories that were rich. So fact that spain has rose to power hase more to do with bloodthirsty temper of these people than their racial superiority.Having driven out the Moors and the Jews, Spain began the greatest and grandest period of her history and the next hundred years can be considered the golden age of Spain. This included the conquistadors conquering the Aztecs and taking control of Mexico and Peru.