An interesting question from a half german

[Mortimer]

https://www.usmessageboard.com/threa...rtest.1070662/

He asks whether germans think they are smarter then everyone else. He says his full german relatives think they are smarter then other nations. What do you think? What do you think of my comments? Please follow the link

[Tooting Carmen]

They are certainly among the most successful, innovative and intelligent nations existing.

[Mortimer]

They are certainly among the most successful, innovative and intelligent nations existing.

Im not sure whether you would still say such a thing if someone said "whites" are the most succesful innovate and intelligent race existing. It is somehow similar?

A) Would you agree with the former?
B) Do you think if someone says that he would qualify as white supremacist?
C) What is your opinion and how is it different?

[Tooting Carmen]

Im not sure whether you would still say such a thing if someone said "whites" are the most succesful innovate and intelligent race existing. It is somehow similar?

Up to a point, but then there is a world of difference between e.g. Albania and Norway.

A) Would you agree with the former?

About what?

B) Do you think if someone says that he would qualify as white supremacist?

Not necessarily, because the person is only talking about Germans, not White people in general. Thus he is more of a German supremacist than anything.

C) What is your opinion and how is it different?

Well even compared to many other parts of Europe, Germany is a pretty orderly and prosperous nation.

[Mortimer]

Up to a point, but then there is a world of difference between e.g. Albania and Norway.



About what?



Not necessarily, because the person is only talking about Germans, not White people in general. Thus he is more of a German supremacist than anything.



Well even compared to many other parts of Europe, Germany is a pretty orderly and prosperous nation.

No problem. I just wanted to hear your opinion, because I thought it is interesting, I didnt even know what you think of the narrative that whites are superior, maybe you are not even against, I didnt know that. I just wanted to see if you see parallalels between what you say and what David Duke says and how you think its different.

[Tooting Carmen]

No problem. I just wanted to hear your opinion, because I thought it is interesting, I didnt even know what you think of the narrative that whites are superior, maybe you are not even against, I didnt know that. I just wanted to see if you see parallalels between what you say and what David Duke says and how you think its different.

I think that, overall, for a mixture of historical, geopolitical, environmental and very maybe genetic reasons, European countries are more successful than most, but the point is there is a lot of variation both between and even within them too.

[Tooting Carmen]

As far as Europeanness is concerned, to paraphrase Germaine Greer (from a rather different context): Caucasoid is real and it is race. European is unreal and it is ethnicity.

In other words, the notion that "all Europeans are more alike than any are to non-Europeans" is a shibboleth almost on par with "trans women are women". I have no problem in admitting that, as a whole, Iberians, Italians (mainly Southerners), Albanians, Greeks and possibly Romanians and some South Slavs look closer to Kavkazians, Turks and even some Levantines and Persians than they do to Scandinavians and even many Brits and Germans.

[Mortimer]

As far as Europeanness is concerned, to paraphrase Germaine Greer (from a rather different context): Caucasoid is real and it is race. European is unreal and it is ethnicity.

In other words, the notion that "all Europeans are more alike than any are to non-Europeans" is a shibboleth almost on par with "trans women are women". I have no problem in admitting that, as a whole, Iberians, Italians (mainly Southerners), Albanians, Greeks and possibly Romanians and some South Slavs look closer to Kavkazians, Turks and even some Levantines and Persians than they do to Scandinavians and even many Brits and Germans.

I didnt meant neccessarily the construct of europeaness but generally you could be a nordic supremacist, do you think that is something which you could agree with?

[Tooting Carmen]

I didnt meant neccessarily the construct of europeaness but generally you could be a nordic supremacist, do you think that is something which you could agree with?

I think that, in many things but certainly not everything, Nordic cultures are better than most, but the point is they are not genetically set in stone and people can adopt their values and behaviours (to varying degrees of ease).

[Tooting Carmen]

A sort-of related thread: https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...e-Iranian-ones