Next-level grooming: Berlin gets its first gay and lesbian day care center
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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%.