On Edward Dutton's RACE DIFFERENCES IN ETHNOCENTRISM—and Why White Ethnocentrism Will Return

Source: The Unz Review

by Lance Welton • June 8, 2019 • 67 Comments

In September 2015, the European Union was subject to what has become known as "The Great Migration." [Prepare yourselves: The Great Migration will be with us for decades, by Fraser Nelson, Telegraph, September 3, 2015]In a matter of weeks, hundreds of thousands of people—most of them young and male, from Syria and other parts of the Muslim world—illegally overwhelmed the hapless southern European border controls. Before long, columns of them were marching through Eastern Europe, determined to get to Germany or the UK and "claim asylum"—ignoring the assorted “safe countries" through which they'd already passed. Finland-based English anthropologist Dr Edward Dutton was fascinated by the huge differences in how different ethnic groups reacted to these supposed "refugees."

Western Europe went into virtue-signalling, faux-pity meltdown, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel taking in a million refugees and Finnish Prime Minister, Juha Sipilä, disingenuously offering to place some of them in his own house.

Eastern Europe, in stark contrast, saw this as an invasion of their ethnic homelands, with even their ruling class making clear that they weren't going to take "EU quotas" of these future suicide-bombers.

Israel, other Middle Eastern countries and Japan were adamant that they weren't going to take any at all. [Netanyahu Rejects Calls for Israel to Accept Syrian Refugees, by Isabel Kershner, NYT, September 6, 2015]

How could these wildly different reactions be explained?

The result is Dutton's new book Race Differences in Ethnocentrism, published by Arktos, which has interviewed him in detail about his new work on its own YouTube channel, Interregnum.

Interregnum #34 — Race Differences in Ethnocentrism with Edward Dutton

 

Interregnum #34—Race Differences in Ethnocentrism with Edward Dutton, May 30, 2019

In the book, Dutton brings together all of the disparate research on this taboo topic—including his own, published with Richard Lynn in such scholarly journals as Personality and Individual Differences—to test whether there really are "race differences in ethnocentrism" and, if so, how these have come to develop.

Dutton divides between "positive ethnocentrism"—meaning that you cooperate with your in-group, cherish it and make sacrifices for it—and "negative ethnocentrism": that you see the outgroup as inferior and are prepared to destroy it. He highlights computer-modelling which has conclusively demonstrated that in the battle of "group selection"—between ethnic groups which are ultimately extended kinship groups and genetic clusters—the more ethnocentric group ultimately triumphs. This makes Dutton's research, as he stresses, extremely pressing: understanding what's going on and why is a matter of ethnic life and death.

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