Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

Eurocentrism, the West, and white supremacy

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Dec 8, 2022
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INSIGHT

Russia: White but Not Western

  • Russia is genetically similar to Northern Europeans but culturally distinct due to history and religion.
  • The West is not simply defined by whiteness or Europeanness, but by cultural and religious heritage.
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European Genetic Landscape

  • Genetic differences within Europe are mostly north-south rather than east-west.
  • Northern Europeans have more ancestral Indo-European steppe ancestry than Southern Europeans, influencing phenotype.
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Whiteness: Social Vs Legal

  • Legal US definitions historically accepted many Europeans including Jews and Italians as "white" despite social biases.
  • Social constructions of whiteness often conflicted with legal or official classifications.
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