Sallis Xenophilia Theory Again
Why does it seem that Northwest Europeans are less ethnocentric? My hypothesis, in contrast to MacDonald’s thesis about “primordialist individualism,” is something I have written about before, and will summarize again here. Northwest Europe is that part of Europe most geographically distant from non-Europe. Therefore, in the ethnogenesis of Northwest European ethnies, and throughout most of the histories of those peoples, group conflicts were almost always with other Europeans; in contrast, in the ethnogenesis and histories of Southern and Eastern European ethnies, conflicts occurred not only with other Europeans but frequently with Afro-Asiatic, non-European peoples. Thus, Northwest European ethnoracial evolution and ethnocultural identity occurred in the context of viewing other Europeans as “the other,” while for Southern and Eastern Europeans, group evolution and identity occurred primarily in the context of Afro-Asiatic aliens, peoples from other continents, other races, and other...