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XenophobicPrussian
Gobineau was a Nordicist though, not a "white supremacist". He disliked Meds too. He is either only basing his experience on Saami or Russian Finno-Ugrics, or he's just full of shit. Finns were amongst the tallest in Europe(certainly taller than N. French), less wide faced than the heavily Alpinid French and Germans. French is kind of irrelevant I guess, because if he was a Nordicist he probably preferred people like Dutch/Flemish, Scandos, Germans, etc, the VUR brigade probably disagrees but even compared against Germans there's probably more Finns of the oldschool "Nordic" type than Germans(Finns below):
Even if we take the Finnish type Gobineau talks about, say, Ilari Sahamies:
ignoring the eyes obviously and perhaps the cheekbones, people of his stature, skull shape, etc, the features most referred to in oldschool anthropology, aren't uncommon in W Europe.
Yeah, Gobineau was a Germanic + Celtic supremacist. I am pretty sure that he had never even seen a Finn. His argument for looking down on Finns was because they had no nobility, but had been ruled by a Swedish nobility. As Hungarians had their own, he considered them as higher ranking on his race ladder. Although he also looked down on Slavs and Hungarians and described Mulattos as more beautiful than them. Mongoloids were his least favourite race.
Gobineau was pretty influential for his time, but later, not even someone like Hans F.K. Günther could agree with him on everything.
It is evident that Gobineau's work on race, which was carried out before investigations into race had reached any tangible results, is in many of its details no longer tenable to-day.
- The Racial Elements of European History, Chapter XII
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