It may be only tangentially related, but: I am unusually mixed and wonder how differently wired may be people whose parents are from one ethnic group.
I am on one side, Jews, but blue-eyed blonde Jews which is kinda weird in itself, and on the other side it is not entirely clear but I strongly suspect Cumans. Through probably Cuman ancestry my mom looks so Asian that her childhood nickname was Cio-Cio San, and my dad looked totally Scandinavian (although with a nice big chimney) even though he was a Jew. I look undescribably, perhaps a fat-face version of Kemal Ataturk, mainly European face but still a bit “off”.
I used to have very strongly liberal instincts, for example I used not understand empathically nationalist, esp. ethnic nationalist people. Could it be a result of mixing? I have also always felt unrooted.
Could it be that less mixed people are naturally more tribal, more conservative, through for example the pathogen theory of morals or something?
I don’t really know if I like this. I toyed with the idea of trying some kind of a Paganism, like Asatru, in a non-theistic way but more like a communal experience and subconsciousness programming. But they seem to be focused on less mixed people, blood tends to matter for them. (I don’t like Wicca, it is a tad bit too feminine for me, I would like a more warrior-spirit oriented Paganism, hence the Asatru interest.) I don’t have a tribe, in the biological sense and that kind of bothers me a bit. I cannot point to any population, country, town or village and claim to be strongl related by blood. And I kind of miss that, but perhaps only because of scarcity. (Miss it only because I cannot have it, if I had it I would perhaps not be interested.)
One of the traditional accusations against Jews in Europe was precisely that they are “unrooted” (actually meaning, of course, not loyal enough to the current regime) -- this survived at least until Stalin’s times.
Not identifying oneself with any particular tribe is a mixed blessing with a silver lining :-D You trade off “roots” and some identity against freedom (e.g. to move to different places). I see land ownership in your future.
About the rootless cosmopolitan thing—it is not just regime loyalty, I have seen non-powerful plumbers talk in terms like this way into the new democratic regimes. It is more of a standard tribal ethnic-racial type of nationalism, blood-and-soil type. It is a classic Blue-Green tribal instinct.
Yes, the standard “they are different, must be an enemy tribe” attitudes are there, of course, too. But the accusation of “rootless” specifically implies both the lack of longstanding allegiance and the possibility of severing ties and moving some place else—both things not conducive to loyalty.
Oh, in many countries east from Germany. But it is not just about disloyalty to the regime, it is more like plain simple standard tribal ethnic nationalism.
You a wizard or am I so predictable? That was always my secret dreams, but there is no way my child or hopefully potential grandchildren would want to live a rural life, and a hobby farm without passing it on (or predictable sold by the heirs) is a sad thing.
It may be only tangentially related, but: I am unusually mixed and wonder how differently wired may be people whose parents are from one ethnic group.
I am on one side, Jews, but blue-eyed blonde Jews which is kinda weird in itself, and on the other side it is not entirely clear but I strongly suspect Cumans. Through probably Cuman ancestry my mom looks so Asian that her childhood nickname was Cio-Cio San, and my dad looked totally Scandinavian (although with a nice big chimney) even though he was a Jew. I look undescribably, perhaps a fat-face version of Kemal Ataturk, mainly European face but still a bit “off”.
I used to have very strongly liberal instincts, for example I used not understand empathically nationalist, esp. ethnic nationalist people. Could it be a result of mixing? I have also always felt unrooted.
Could it be that less mixed people are naturally more tribal, more conservative, through for example the pathogen theory of morals or something?
I don’t really know if I like this. I toyed with the idea of trying some kind of a Paganism, like Asatru, in a non-theistic way but more like a communal experience and subconsciousness programming. But they seem to be focused on less mixed people, blood tends to matter for them. (I don’t like Wicca, it is a tad bit too feminine for me, I would like a more warrior-spirit oriented Paganism, hence the Asatru interest.) I don’t have a tribe, in the biological sense and that kind of bothers me a bit. I cannot point to any population, country, town or village and claim to be strongl related by blood. And I kind of miss that, but perhaps only because of scarcity. (Miss it only because I cannot have it, if I had it I would perhaps not be interested.)
One of the traditional accusations against Jews in Europe was precisely that they are “unrooted” (actually meaning, of course, not loyal enough to the current regime) -- this survived at least until Stalin’s times.
Not identifying oneself with any particular tribe is a mixed blessing with a silver lining :-D You trade off “roots” and some identity against freedom (e.g. to move to different places). I see land ownership in your future.
About the rootless cosmopolitan thing—it is not just regime loyalty, I have seen non-powerful plumbers talk in terms like this way into the new democratic regimes. It is more of a standard tribal ethnic-racial type of nationalism, blood-and-soil type. It is a classic Blue-Green tribal instinct.
Yes, the standard “they are different, must be an enemy tribe” attitudes are there, of course, too. But the accusation of “rootless” specifically implies both the lack of longstanding allegiance and the possibility of severing ties and moving some place else—both things not conducive to loyalty.
Indeed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootless_cosmopolitan
Still a thing today in Russia, to an extent.
Oh, in many countries east from Germany. But it is not just about disloyalty to the regime, it is more like plain simple standard tribal ethnic nationalism.
You a wizard or am I so predictable? That was always my secret dreams, but there is no way my child or hopefully potential grandchildren would want to live a rural life, and a hobby farm without passing it on (or predictable sold by the heirs) is a sad thing.
Can’t you rent a farm?
Lumifer’s insight was that people like me want to get rooted. Renting is pretty much the opposite of getting rooted.
I don’t know why a hobby farm is sad. It there to be your own place, not for you to start a noble dynasty.
I’ve played with the notion of some people being better adapted for living in cities—that is, with strangers—than others.