I'm sure all that is true but as far as this thread goes it just adds to the confusion. GIA started the confusion by making the "white race" into a genetic group, attributing the cultural achievements of Europeans (which is what I suppose he means) to genetics when it's got nothing to do with racial genetics anyway.
I think you're correct. His "white" is probably equivalent to Europeans as defined by anthropologist Stanley Garn.
You can talk about the achievements of western civilization but that isn't about race. And of course I attribute those achievements to the Christian religion, at least the Christian religion since the Reformation. But GIA hates Christianity so he's got his head tied in a knot about the whole subject in my opinion.
True, it isn't about race. Not true about Christianity. The beginnings of western culture were in Greece, hundreds of years before Christianity. It can also be argued that Christianity helped bring about the Dark Ages. And, it is little known that the Arab world was the center of science and culture for quite a period while Europe was in the Dark Ages. This period lasted until fundamentalism took over there. That was about the same time the Renaissance was beginning in Europe, and the Renaissance was based in large part on documents preserved in the Arab/Persian world (such as the writings of Aristotle) or created in there and then translated into Latin and other European languages. This preserved knowledge was a major impetus for the Renaissance.
But if you stick to the simple common meaning of "white race" as we casually -- and officially -- use the term, he's right that "whites" are declining in numbers and as I said in another post I think that's due to the big scare about overpopulation that got the more highly educated and non-Catholic "whites" to be good citizens and cut down on their own population.
True, but it is not a matter of race. It is a matter of culture. In much of the western world increasing prosperity and the vastly increased percentage of people in cities vs. on the farm doing subsistence agriculture led to a decline in the number of children. Russia is seeing similar reductions in the birth rate, but there may be other causes at work there.
Which does happen to mean reducing the cultural influences that built western civilization too because it just so happens they are linked. So Reformation Christianity is dying out however you look at it, and other "races" or cultures are growing in influence. Not for the good of anything in my opinion of course.
Multiculturalism is diluting western civilization in part because incoming groups are not assimilated as quickly as they once were. But the issue is much larger than that, as our country is increasingly seeing Balkanization of people and groups who were born here. Inner cities are one example. Decades ago young people typically were drafted into the Army and were both shown the world and exposed to other ways of life in this country--a major socialization factor. That socialization is no longer present.
Not that you'll accept my interpretation of any of this either but oh well.
I don't reject your interpretations out of hand--only when they lack logic, facts, and/or common sense. Otherwise, I agree with you completely.
For example, I agree completely on this -- Merry Christmas!
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