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       Re: Arctic alliance 
       By: rp Date: May 5, 2024, 7:19 pm
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       "Because India and Iran are not cold enough to begin with and
       thus fail even the explicitly stated Arctic Alliance criterion."
       Ok. Would you agree then that Northern/Turanized Chinese are
       closer to "Whites" than Turanized Indiana/Iranians/etc?
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       Re: Arctic alliance 
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 5, 2024, 7:31 pm
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       It depends on what trait we are looking at. In terms of lactose
       tolerance, probably not:
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       In terms of meat-eating, probably:
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       height=719]
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       Re: Arctic alliance 
       By: rp Date: May 5, 2024, 7:51 pm
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       I consider meat eating a more non Aryan trait than lactose
       intolerance, as I theorize the former almost always (although
       there are exceptions) correlates with the non Aryan personality
       trait of viewing non humans as food, whereas the lactose
       tolerant person may consume dairy, but if they are biologically
       a heritable vegetarian, they can be converted to veganism
       (although there is still a degree of racial inferiority as many
       of them have grown accustomed to the taste of (mostly Western)
       dairy products). As I mentioned, there are exceptions, as the
       meat eater may also recognize the sentience of non humans and
       wish to stop consuming them, but cannot quit meat due to taste
       reasons.
       With that aside, I meant more similar to "Whites" in terms of
       machinism, and other aspects of Western Civilization. I don't
       see India as machinistically enthusiastic as China, for example,
       although I am open to disagreement.
       Or is the "White" theory of convergent evolution with "Yellows"
       (even when applied exclusively to Northern Chinese) mostly BS?
       #Post#: 26294--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Arctic alliance 
       By: rp Date: May 5, 2024, 8:05 pm
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       To elaborate on the last post, I meant similarity in terms of
       explicit personality traits (e.g. machinism/cunning) rather than
       biological traits.
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       Re: Arctic alliance 
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 5, 2024, 8:29 pm
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       "I don't see India as machinistically enthusiastic as China, for
       example, although I am open to disagreement."
       Yes, but how much of this is cultural and/or economic rather
       than genetic is uncertain for now. If India and China had
       roughly equal GDP, a direct comparison between their machinism
       spending could be meaningful. But in reality at present:
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       so now is not a good time to compare. If you compare back in the
       20th century when their GDPs were more similar, the China at
       that time would not have appeared much more machinistically
       enthusiastic than India, surely?
       "Or is the "White" theory of convergent evolution with "Yellows"
       (even when applied exclusively to Northern Chinese) mostly BS?"
       There may be something to the wheat vs rice theory:
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       in which case we could expect wheat-growing societies to evolve
       convergently. But this divide also exists in India:
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       height=1280]
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       so the hypothetical convergence could include wheat-growing
       Indians also.
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       Re: Arctic alliance 
       By: rp Date: May 5, 2024, 9:52 pm
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       "so now is not a good time to compare. If you compare back in
       the 20th century when their GDPs were more similar, the China at
       that time would not have appeared much more machinistically
       enthusiastic than India, surely?"
       Good point. It is worth noting that India has a space program,
       but the rationale used to justify it is that it is what makes a
       country a "serious world power" not recognizing the underlying
       implicit Western assumption in their statement (progress). I
       suppose China uses similar arguments to justify their own
       machinistic endeavors in the present day, which gives me hope
       that they are not a lost case and can be redeemed.
       "There may be something to the wheat vs rice theory:"
       Would you say wheat farmers are less Aryan than rice farmers?
       It is worth noting that wheat and rice are both Aryan crops. As
       a south Indian myself, I grew up eating rice, but also like
       wheat. Of course, I will accept that the differences in
       cultivation may create different selective evolutionary
       pressure.
       I am a bit confused because I have seen you express a much more
       unfavourable view of northern China than north India. In pop
       culture, for example, Bollywood (although based in Maharashtra)
       is mostly dominated by North Indians, but I don't see any
       inferiority in North Indian music compared to South Indian
       music. Although this could be attributed to the cosmopolitan
       nature of Maharashtra as opposed to North Indians.
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       Re: Arctic alliance 
       By: rp Date: May 5, 2024, 10:50 pm
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       Another point regarding GDP: It is not just machinism that is
       bolstered by economic growth, but meat consumption as well. I
       would expect some of the vegetarians in the Turanized North
       Indian states to increase their meat consumption as meat becomes
       more affordable. Already, we have seen an increase in milk
       consumption in North India thanks to the so called "White
       Revolution" (although South India was also affected by this).
       Perhaps this was due to lactose tolerance, and meat consumption
       would remain low due to vegetarian genetics, but it remains to
       be seen.
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       Re: Arctic alliance 
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 6, 2024, 12:06 am
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       "Would you say wheat farmers are less Aryan than rice farmers?"
       Not because they are wheat farmers, but because in reality the
       wheat farmers unfortunately (through no fault of their own) tend
       to be located nearer to the steppe and hence are likely to have
       more Turanian blood.
       If we compare them with similarly steppe-proximate rice farmers
       only, I would expect the disparity to disappear.
       "I am a bit confused because I have seen you express a much more
       unfavourable view of northern China than north India."
       Yes, because the former is much more closely adjacent to the
       steppe (not to mention eats much more meat):
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       #Post#: 26589--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Arctic alliance 
       By: antihellenistic Date: May 28, 2024, 8:19 am
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       Result of dissemination of western competitive norms (Kantian
       and Nietzschean ethics)
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       Re: Arctic alliance 
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 28, 2024, 5:58 pm
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       Kantian ethics are neither pro-competition nor anti-competition.
       Kant advocates:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantian_ethics
       [quote]Act only in accordance with that maxim through which you
       can at the same time will that it become a universal
       law.[/quote]
       So someone who likes competition will compete (because they
       would want everyone to compete), while someone who dislikes
       competition will not compete (because they would want everyone
       to not compete).
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