Oxytocin Hormone Connection with Xenophobia

[European blood]

Oxytocin promotes human ethnocentrism

Carsten K. W. De Dreu1,
Lindred L. Greer,
Gerben A. Van Kleef,
Shaul Shalvi, and
Michel J. J. Handgraaf
+ Author Affiliations
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Edited by Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved December 21, 2010 (received for review October 12, 2010)
Abstract

Human ethnocentrism—the tendency to view one's group as centrally important and superior to other groups—creates intergroup bias that fuels prejudice, xenophobia, and intergroup violence. Grounded in the idea that ethnocentrism also facilitates within-group trust, cooperation, and coordination, we conjecture that ethnocentrism may be modulated by brain oxytocin, a peptide shown to promote cooperation among in-group members. In double-blind, placebo-controlled designs, males self-administered oxytocin or placebo and privately performed computer-guided tasks to gauge different manifestations of ethnocentric in-group favoritism as well as out-group derogation. Experiments 1 and 2 used the Implicit Association Test to assess in-group favoritism and out-group derogation. Experiment 3 used the infrahumanization task to assess the extent to which humans ascribe secondary, uniquely human emotions to their in-group and to an out-group. Experiments 4 and 5 confronted participants with the option to save the life of a larger collective by sacrificing one individual, nominated as in-group or as out-group. Results show that oxytocin creates intergroup bias because oxytocin motivates in-group favoritism and, to a lesser extent, out-group derogation. These findings call into question the view of oxytocin as an indiscriminate “love drug” or “cuddle chemical” and suggest that oxytocin has a role in the emergence of intergroup conflict and violence.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/01/06/1015316108


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Anti-racism, anti-xenophobia and racial mixing = against nature

Xenophobia is not dangerous, it is not a disease.

It's natural.

Xenophilia is the disease.

Leftist multicultural fight against xenophobia and nationalism is fight against immune system of our society.

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[Curtis24]

Makes you wonder, if oxycontin makes people happy, and its promoted by xenophobia, could multiculturalism be compromising people's ability to be happy on a chemical level?

[Magister Eckhart]

I'd find all this more convincing if the evidence didn't consist of a brief abstract and youtube videos that read like they were put together by an ESL class.

It's a nice thought and all, and I'd like it if it were true, but it all reeks of neo-Nazi pseudo-science, which only hurts us when we need real scientific proofs.

I'm going to remain an optimistic sceptic on this one until I've seen more of the hard science.

[Agrippa]

These findings call into question the view of oxytocin as an indiscriminate “love drug” or “cuddle chemical” and suggest that oxytocin has a role in the emergence of intergroup conflict and violence.

Well, that is true. Because what we know about "Multiculturalism" and the "Plural society" is that it doesn't work because of a lack of homogeneity, trust and group orientation.

Group orientation must have set limits and as a rule, it is easier to work, especially in the closer social environment, with people which you know, trust and are genetically related, than if that is not true.

So the huge melting pot is, and always was supposed to be, highly individualised on the one hand, but full of conflicts and problems on the other, so that the individuals are constantly under pressure individually as well as through intra-group troubles, with the greater whole being largely forgotten and no longer a big issue.

This relates also to the idea of a "tight and loose" culture:


Tight/loose culture influenced by a nation's past

Gelfand and colleagues found that countries such as Japan, Korea, Singapore and Pakistan are much tighter whereas countries such as the Ukraine, Israel, Brazil, and the U.S. are looser.

http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2011/05/tightloose-culture-influenced-by.html

The chaotic status of the Liberalcapitalist society, the easy destruction of traditioanl structures, the introduction of unnatural Liberal and Cultural Marxist values in society, economy and policy is related to a decrease of group cohesion.

It is just easier to love someone related, than someone unrelated and it makes, one has to add that, MUCH MORE SENSE too, because it is in the genetic-biological and memetic-cultural interest to favour THE OWN, to make the own genes and memes more successful in the real world, which always means REAL COMPETITION.

Heterogenous societies are more asocial and easier to manipulate, which relates directly to the nightmare of Coudenhove-Kalergi and being a major reason to fight race mixture and diversification even if the foreign elements are on a higher level -
1st because of biological-cultural interests, egoism
2nd because of the socio-cultural consequences of a heterogenous, fractionised society.

Compare:
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showpost.php?p=421155&postcount=46

Homogeneous groups of people are also more likely to be group oriented, social and to defend each other and the grater whole against any foreign threat.

That is, among other things, what the Plutocrats want to ruin, to have helpless people without a real orientation in life as easy prey. The new mutt without identity in a culture formed with their money, with every "value" they know being "money based" or the result of their indoctrination.

The naive Cultural Marxism comes up in this sentence too:

These findings call into question the view of oxytocin as an indiscriminate “love drug” or “cuddle chemical” and suggest that oxytocin has a role in the emergence of intergroup conflict and violence.

Love is always the love for somebody, for a reason, a conscious or unconscious one. If you love something, you try to defend and spread it the same time.

The readiness to make sacrifices for a greater whole being an integral part of higher level individual- and group selection, which we could observe especially since the Neolithic period.

People which acted against the group were more likely to be eliminated, even by collective punishment (laws stem from that to this day in theory) and the relatedness of the group members made it possible that personal sacrifices in wars could pay off for the victors, leading to the best racial forms of mankind so far in this higher individual and group selection.

Now, they rather breed, biologically and culturally, asocial, egoistic, rather worthless subjects which substitute, every generation, the old base for higher mankind, the base for higher culture and development so far.

Because the culture a people live in, determines also a selective regime and this selective regime influences evolution, the way a people develop biologically.

I found this article quite interesting, as it points to a very important factor in human social-biological co-evolution:


Previous models of cooperation assumed that punishment of free-riders was uncoordinated and unconditional. One problem with these models was that the costs associated with punishment were often higher than the gains of cooperation. Thus, the cost of one group member's punishing a free-rider would be substantial and would not overweigh the gains achieved through increased cooperation.


The results of their model look a lot like what is seen in most human societies, where individuals meet and decide whether and how to punish group members who are not cooperating. This is coordinated punishment where group members signal their intent to punish, only punish when a threshold has been met and share the costs of punishing.

http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2010/05/co-ordinated-punishment-and-evolution.html

For social groups in which the members know each other, this is particularly true:


How did human cooperation evolve? Recent evidence shows that many people are willing to engage in altruistic punishment, voluntarily paying a cost to punish noncooperators. Although this behavior helps to explain how cooperation can persist, it creates an important puzzle. If altruistic punishment provides benefits to nonpunishers and is costly to punishers, then how could it evolve? Drawing on recent insights from voluntary public goods games, I present a simple evolutionary model in which altruistic punishers can enter and will always come to dominate a population of contributors, defectors, and nonparticipants. The model suggests that the cycle of strategies in voluntary public goods games does not persist in the presence of punishment strategies. It also suggests that punishment can only enforce payoff-improving strategies, contrary to a widely cited "folk theorem" result that suggests that punishment can allow the evolution of any strategy.


http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2005/04/evolution-of-altruistic-punishment.html

The current corrupted and alienated system and leadership works against the people, abusing structures and favours detrimental tendencies, simply to guarantee their profits and power to grow, with little chances for a successful fundamental opposition and resistance.

In a normal and healthy society, if a group member would be exploited or attacked by foreign or generally asocial elements, even if being from the group, the whole group would turn against the hostile and/or asocial elements, if they have no legitimation in the group.

In the end, the forced mass immigration and destruction of homogeneity is to a large degree about that, about deconstructing collective structures and installing such which make the individual totally dependent from the Financial Oligarchy.


Makes you wonder, if oxycontin makes people happy, and its promoted by xenophobia, could multiculturalism be compromising people's ability to be happy on a chemical level?

It does, as was proven already by honest scientists, because the constant contact to people which are unrelated and harder to predict or trust, means A LOT OF STRESS.

One can get used to it, but not fully so, and the results are always worse than in a homogeneous group - for ALL PARTICIPANTS.

This means the multicultural-plural model is much worse - and one has to add, where "real multiculturalism", not this Liberalcapitalist melting pot, reigns and works, there are VERY CLEAR RULES between the groups, how to deal with each other.

It is never that chaotic or unorganised, or even "equal" and "non-discriminatory".

That are all relatively new inventions, which simply don't work for the majority and people as a whole, but at best/worst only for those which abuse it.

[Don]

Xenophobia correlates with endophilia and viceversa.

[Ibericus]

We should introduce this hormone in the water supply of our country

[Agrippa]

Xenophobia correlates with endophilia and viceversa.

Indeed. Additionally, just note how many Libertarians and Liberals which don't care for racial, ethnic or cultural differences are also indifferent about social issues and the care for other people, just generally more indifferent and egoistic.

"The Neoliberal mind" as such might serve as a perfect example is exactly that kind of manipulated sheeple, which go just for the money which lures them, the Plutocracy likes the most...

[Curtis24]

What is endophilia?

[Agrippa]

What is endophilia?

Rarely used, but it is like endogamy = marrying in a group, homogamy = marrying people with similar traits, endophilia is "loving in a group". So that you love exclusively or at least primarily people which have characteristics in common with you - could be many things, but usually it is about ethnoracial, sociocultural etc. traits. You have primarily or preferred social contacts with this clearly defined people, that's part of it, of your social preference.

It is, like I said, rarely used, but this sociological German text might serve as an example:

http://books.google.com/books?id=KC9kf5X8fZgC&pg=PA23&dq=Methoden+der+Netzwerkanalyse+Von+Franz+Urban+Pa ppi+endophilie&hl=en&ei=5OfjTafLK8rm-gbjyOzVBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false