/lit/ - Literature

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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as "Whiteness" in North America, is in fact, a bastardized form of early 20th century Nordicism, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Nordicism plus Slav. Nordicism is not strictly based on skin pigmentation itself, but rather a European tripartate of classic phenotypes, Nordic, Alpine, and Mediterranean.

Many Americans apply this modified version of Nordicism every day to race relations, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Nordicism which is widely used today is often called “Whiteness”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically Nordicism, now with the inclusion of slavic peoples because their skin is intuitively fair. There really are Nordics, and these people can recognize them, but now they include Slavs because Americans focus less on nationality and even more on phenotypes than Europeans.

Nordicism is the kernel: the idea in the system that allocates peoples' ideologies to the racial stereotypes you can have. The kernel is an essential part of the United States, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete ignorance of history. Whiteness is normally used in combination with Nordics and Slavs: the whole system is basically Nordicism with Slavs added, or Nordicism/Slav. All the so-called “Whiteness” declarations are really variations of Nordicism/Slav.