No, They Don't Belong Here, Fraser Nelson
'To look at a person's skin and think 'you don't belong here' is abhorent to me'
Fraser Nelson, new Editor of the 'Spectator'
As a Tory liberal, Fraser Nelson just has to drag in the usual disinegenuous liberal squeal about 'the colour of a person's skin.' I expect he felt good about himself when he wrote those words. Feeling good about oneself, regardless of the consequences to others, is what liberalism is all about, after all. No doubnt he knew full well that they would have been met with nods of approval from other members of the political class who think they are being 'nice' and 'intellectually broadminded' unlike those nasty, ill-educated racist bigots, even, or because, their country and a two-thouand - year old civilisation is disappearing down the plughole as a result of such attitudes. But even if we take Fraser Nelson at his own level, it is a fact that Asians, Africans and racially and culturally different others don't belong here. Our white skins are a function of our geography, of the latitudes in which our ancestors developed in the lands in which we have such deep, deep roots, stretching back for millennia. Just as the brown and black and yellow skins of others relflect their own genetic history in the landsof their origin.
We have been shaped by our Northern environment
There is plenty of Vitamin D in meat, so hunter gatherers in Europe and in Africa would have had no shortage of it. After the development of Agriculture however, there would have been much less in the cereal-based European diet. Vitamin D is also produced in us by ultraviolet radiation from the sun acting on our skins, but less is produced in areas far from the Equator where UV flux is low. Vitamin deficency leads to serious consequences such as malformations of the bones (rickets), decreased resistance to infectious diseases and even cancer.
So natural selection favoured mutations causing light skin which allowed for adequate Vitamin D synthesis in regions with little ultraviolet light radiation. There seems thoug to be a fundamental difference between the selective forces affecting the skin colour and hair colour of Europeans and East Asians. In most partsof the world, even in temperate zones, everyone has dark eyes and hair. This seems to indicate that somethig other than Vitamin D was also being selcted for in Europeans.
Our physical appearance is reflected in our culture
it is not just because immigrants are recent and we haven't got used to their presence here that they seem not to sit comfortably in our landscape. it is partly because tha they lack this adaption to these latitudes, and others we possess, which make us at home here in away they can never be. Our paler, ruddiy complexions meld naturally into the muted tones of the foliage and pale blue skies of the ancient norhtern homeland of our ancestors which literally made us what we are. And this palenesss is reflected in our culture. For example, the best British taste in clothes has rejected in bright colours, at least in recent centuries in favour of more muted tones which do not overwhelm the pale skins or jar with the natural environment. In contrast, strong colours are necessary to set off extremes of darkness - dark skins and light- the trong light of sunnier climes.
To be fair: the very roots of who we are.
And paleness runs through our culture in a myriad other ways, reaching far into the very depths of what and who we are as a race. Take the word 'fair' for example, which means light complexioned or blond of hair. The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that it comes from an Old Germanic word meaning 'pleasing, attractive.' It is used in all sorts of contexts to mean more or less'good,' something that is to be welcomed or to be prized. It can mean justice -'that's fair', we say; 'fair and square' means with absolute accuracy. If the weather is fair, it is fine and dry. An old use of 'fair' is to describe a woman who is beautiful. And so on. It isi a wonder that the fascist left haven't got round to trying to stamo out this word as they have the word 'white', so connected is it with oru racial identity and what is thought to be good and sought after. Or perhaps they are too stupid or ignorant to have noticed it - yet
Paleness. or the colour of our skin, is to be found in such diverse regions of northern culture as ballet - 'Swan Lake' for example is all about paleness, - and our poetry. Here are some examples of the latter, taken at random:-
Shakespeare : 'and Marian's nose looks red and raw.' ('Winter')
William Blake : ' The daughters of Mne Seraphime led round their sunny flocks,
All but the youngest; she in paleness sought the secret air.' ( 'The Book of Thel')
T. Campion : 'Thou art not fair, for all thy red and white,
For all those rosy ornaments in thee.' ( 'A Renunciation')
Anon : 'There is a garden in her face
Where roses ands white lillies blow
A heavenly paradise is that place
Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow
There cherries grow that none may buy,
Till cherry ripe themselves do cry' ('Cherry Ripe')
Our Adaptions to our Environment go Deeper than the Skin
But of course, racial differences which are adaptions to environemt (and envirnment includes culture) go a lot deeper than the skin, which nevertheless indicates their probable presence. For example, Northern poples share lactose tolerance which rises to 95% of the population in Denmark but which is restricted to a few cattle-raisng tribes such as the Tutsi in sub -Saharan Africa. Africans and South-East Asians have sickle cells and Haemoglobein E (HbE) which are defences against malaria. The race of an individual can be ascertained by hisor her skeleton. Our limbs are shorter and ou bodies comparatively longer than those of Africans and others, which is a means of conserving heat in a cold climate. Such adaptions may and probably do include such aspects as the ability to tolerate cold weather , resistance to local diseases, or adjust to the big swings in length of the day which is such a prominent feature of life in the North.
We are Big - Headed. Yes Really
Coldness also allowed the development of a bigger brain in our bigger heads, which means that Europeans have wider hips than more southerly peoples and cannot therefore run as fast as can negros. The 'New Scientist' carried an article (29th July 2009) 'Did an ice age boost human brainsize?' It reports that Axel Kleidon, a researcher at the Max Planck Insitute in Germany found that even today, the ability to dissipate heat should restrict the activity of people in many tropical areas. Dean Falk, a palaeontologist at Florida State University is reported as saying that 'if measurements showed that people living in tropical countries today have smaller brains relative to their body size than people in temperate climates, this would go agaisnt expections (Why?) and lend support to the Kleidon model.'
In fact, many measurements since those of Brocas in the 19th Century show exactly that of individuals whose recnt racial antecedents are tropical, as J Phillippe Rushton reminds us ( Race, Evolution and Behaviour). Rushton summarises the results which take into account such variables as body size, sex, age nutrition etc and use all four accepted measurement techniques. He notes that Orientals averaged 1,364 cubic cms; Whites 1,347 and Blacks 1267. The pattern of brain size is as one would expect reflected in the average IQs of the racial groups. Orientals have average IQs of 106, Whites 100 and Blacks (in white societies) 85. IQ in turn is highly correlated with socio-economic status ands such social factors as one-parenthood, criminality and even smoking habits and drug - taking. Blacks are on average more aggressive and extrovert and have higher self-esteem than do Whites who in turn rank rank higher than Orientals.
How we got to be big-headed
According to Gregory Cochrane and Henry Harpending (The 100,000 Year Explosion) the divergent brain abilities of Whites and Orientals was made possible by the acquisition of favourable Neanderthal alleles when Man emerged from Africa millennia ago. They had to solve different problems from African Brains. As ambush hunters of big game, they 'might have been selcted for the ability to imagine and inticipate the reactions of their prey, Whilst big brains might have been solving some of the same probelms in both populations ' we can be certain that those problems were not solved in exactly the same way.'
Rushton thinks that the further north people went out of Africa , the harder it was to get food, gain shelter, make clothes and raise children, So the groups that evolved into today's Whites and Orientals needed larger brains, more family stabilty and longer life. But building a bigger brain takes time and energy during a person's development, so these changes were balanced by slower rates of growth including a longer gestation period, lower levels of sex hormones, less agresssion and less sexual activity. Meaning inter alia, fewer children.
The colour of a person's skin is of course not just a lable on a likely package of many other characteristics, physical and otherwise, but a set of cultiurall norms and attitudes as well, which are partly a product of these characteristics. As Sam Francis remarked (America Extinguished) immigrants can arrive in another society in such large numbers that they do not not feel the need to assimilate. They are actually encouraged not to by the lunatic ideology of multiculturalism in Britain. What is not assimilated includes 'the basic attitude of aliens towards such matters as the use of violence for political purposes or for settling disputes, the relationship of the individual to the group or the role of the human will and consciousness as significant factorsin the universe and history.' This last relates to Islam for which everything that occurs is Allah's will, not that of individuals.
Skin colour is not meaningless
So 'the colour of a person's skin' is not meaningless, Far from it. It is likely to mean a very great deal. This does not matter much if there aren't too many of a different colour around, but it matters more and more as their numbers grow. And the numbers are growing - massively. It might not seem fair to immigrants on an individual basis, but the meaning of skin colour, whether Fraser Nelson likes it or not is that its possessors do not belong here because this is not their natural habitat and it is not their cultural habitat either. it is ours.
But if we let it happen, it will be their country and not ours nevertheless. And why should we let it happen?
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