In her book 'The New White Nationalism In America',African-American writer Carol Swain laments the passing of the melting pot 'assimilationist' ideal.She argues that decades of identity politics by minorities has finally compelled whites to assert themselves into an insular 'bloc' aswell.She fears this will spell the end of America as we know it and insists that urgent action is required to undo the years of division.Unfortunately the horse has bolted in the US,as it has in most western nations.

Ms. Swain needs to accept that the logical conclusion of a multi-ethnic state is that all races and cultures,including whites,will ultimately act and broadly habitate as a bloc.There is no 'holy grail' of happy rainbow holding hands and being 'colour blind'.It has never happened anywhere for any sustainable period of time.The meddlings and social engineering of humanists around the world havent been able to stop our tribalist instincts.

I'm not giving up Beethoven and Shakespeare for a monocultural world with Coca Cola and Laksa.Just as Chek Ling shouldnt give up his heritage for the same.All we need,is to learn to live on the same continent without stepping on each others toes.Maybe we an do coffee sometime and talk geopolitics.

Am i a racist?Although it'd been reduced to nothing but a meaningless slur,yes i believe i am one in the classical sense because i believe in the existence of ethnicities and genetic interests.Would i ever assault,insult or look down on a person not of my kin?Certainly not.I believe i am more respectful and honest and with other ethnicities than the so called 'anti-racist' whites are.They smell of patronising conceit and remnants of the 'white man's burden'.

Johann, interesting post. You have made some very good points.
You've phrased some aspects of this well. I would prefer not to tie the term racist to what you appear to be talking about, others may disagree. I am very strongly in agreement with the idea that "decades of identity politics by minorities" are having a significant negative impact.

I am hoping that there is a way to hang on to Beethoven and Shakespeare at the same time as we share them with others and pick up on the greatness of other cultures.

I can have Beethovan and Bonsai at the same time. I have not given up hope on the melting pot idea.

R0bert

Very good post Johann. A bit of concise, clear and logical thinking, not often seen in this place.

It never ceases to amaze me how the human animal denies its place in the natural world, where things like survival of the species drives population dynamics. Species tend to break down into populations that are inbred ('racist' mating selection to maintain genetic heritability) and populations that are hybridised ('melting pot/multicultural' outcrossing to create new progeny that is often superior, on some level or other, to its parentage).

Inbreeding creates homogenous (same) populations and outbreeding/hybridising promotes heterogenous (different) populations. They both have their place and are crucial to survival of the species.

Humans came along and deny everything because we have got the sort of brain that has evolved with a capacity for that sort of thing.

I'm done here. I'll let you guys masturbate and fondle each others idea's about how wonderfully non-racist, philosophically enriched, theoretically acute and egalitarian you all are. White moral panic about white privilege has never been so fun for me to explore with people who know so much about its vitues, but simultaneously, so little. Thanks and have fun, knock yourselves out!

The funny funny thing about this whole diatribe of racism is that Rainer who seemly hates Anglo Saxons ,is probably 90% Anglo Saxon himself.
I see so many so called Aborigines claiming abuse at the hands of their colonial masters yet only have a hint of Aboriginality themselves.

The world is moving on and so must all our races or suffer the irrelevance of their own inertia.

What an outrage! Chek Ling is the racist, and it's so obvious! Corby's sister yelled "How dare you!" about how dare they take the word of the baggage handler over her sister, as Indonesia is a notorious corrupt society, like all Asian nations are. Racist? No a simple fact, check the UN website. Worse still, Ling ignores that Corby was married to an Asian, and her sister still is! If Ling can't handle the fact that white Europeans have a superior legal system, based on fairness instead of race, or a caste system, or some other Asian cultural theme, then too bad. How dare he call us racist! If one looks at Asia, one sees incredibly ethnocentric cultures that all hate one another, ever heard a Korean who has lived in Japan for three generations tell you about how the Japanese treat them? Or how the Chinese look at the Vietnamese? I grew up in Cabramatta in the 1980's, I saw their extreme racism to Australians first hand. No one is more accepting than the white Aussie, we take people from the whole planet, and Asians come here & turn Cabramatta into a crime capital, and the drug capital of the whole country! How ungrateful! Just a few? Perhaps. But what of the mass Medicare fraud in 1992/3 involving all Asian doctors, chemists, the largest fraud in our history! Or the first Asian politician, Phuong Ngo, he murdered his rival, as is the Asian way. My thinking? No, respected anthropolgists like Richard Basham. Asian politics is dominated by assassinations, fraud, racism, drugs. No, Australians have demonstrated that we aren't tribalistic. Show me a nation in Asia that even has a Racial Discrimination Act protecting it's ethnics! Chek Ling, you're the racist....another feature of the Asian antrhopologists tell us. Read up on Richard Basham Mr Ling...who's married to an Asian by the way!