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While ethnocentrism is a natural inclination, converting it into a formal political ideology requires defining the "ethny" that one is ethnocentric about.
The war between white culture and white nationalism Steve Sailer 2005
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While ethnocentrism is a natural inclination, converting it into a formal political ideology requires defining the "ethny" that one is ethnocentric about.
Archive 2005-10-09 Steve Sailer 2005
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Too many american blacks are productive, law-abiding, contributing members of society to warrant a blanket judgement of their ethny.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Declaration of Independence and the Case for Non-Ethnic Secession: 2009
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They want the law to treat people not as members of an ethny or extended family but as individual and equal citizens under the law.
The war between white culture and white nationalism Steve Sailer 2005
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They want the law to treat people not as members of an ethny or extended family but as individual and equal citizens under the law.
Archive 2005-10-09 Steve Sailer 2005
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A similar gambit may have been played in Belgium where, again, a Francophone ethny is a net tax eater of revenues garnished from a more robust Fleming section of the country, while enjoying influence in the country's governance and official culture in excess of its numerical and economic weight.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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There are other important goods to uphold, including those relating to family, ethny and nation.
Oz Conservative 2009
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If the members of some ethny could 'all just get along', they could conquer the world, and likely would.
unknown title 2009
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The nearest available mechanism to accomplish that intervention is the modern nation state, and it is the prerogative of the state to ameliorate that struggle - not the prerogative of the family (i.e. citizens and ethny left to themselves).
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No elimination of all preference for one’s own kin or ethny over those more distantly related?
Archive 2005-06-05 Steve Sailer 2005
qroqqa commented on the word ethny
Not in OED. Possibly coined by ethologist Frank Salter: apparently a near-synonym for 'ethnic group' but focusing on the genetical and sociobiological aspects. (Salter writes in favour of ethnocentrism as an extension of kin altruism.)
February 11, 2009