Next-level grooming: Berlin gets its first gay and lesbian day care center
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People are inherently advantaged and disadvantaged by their birth. I'm neither a seven foot giant nor a five foot manlet, so I'll never be an NBA star or a jockey in the Kentucky Derby. It's not skin color that is at issue; it is a complex host of inherited cognitive and behavioral differences. That's not to be taken to mean superiority or inferiority, simply different. Materialistic biology is not the ultimate arbiter either; there is an almost transcendent element to it as well. The biospirit of a people manifests in their society and culture, and people from outside that biospirit will be inherently disadvantaged, as it was not built by them.
That is interesting. Not to play guilt by association, just checking, but isn't that the idea of the so called 'alt-right', that culture flows from biology?
I would argue against that. There have been sea changes in culture without any change in the genetic component. I could cite historical examples, but we both live in a country that has gone to absolute crap over a span of 100 years or so.
Reducing it to pure materialism is to miss something important, which is where the alt-right goes wrong, but to ignore biology and material conditions completely is also a mistake. Religion is an important component, but even there religious expression takes different forms among the peoples practicing it. Italian Catholicism looks different from German Catholicism, and South American Catholicism could be mistaken for something entirely different. There is a spirit of a people that can't be easily described or quantified, but is quickly recognized.
I find the idea attractive, because it's an antidote to the ruling classes regarding us as mere pawns (though it also has its dangers). But obviously, Bavaria has a very different history from Italy. And same for parts within Italy. People can be genetically close to identical, or very close, and have very similar culture. And the other way around.
I agree that a people have a 'spirit', but I don't think it's genetic. Maybe <1%.