White Identity Arises in Response to Collective Threat

WHITE IDENTITY ARISES IN RESPONSE TO COLLECTIVE THREAT

via: Patrick Smyth, Alain Dwight

“In summary, at their origins the Goths were significantly ethnic–in the fourth century around 20-50 percent being a freemen class with at least a sense of Gothic identity if not biological kinship […]. However, group identity was most important under conditions of threat or expansion. After attaining dominance in Spain, this group identity tended to dissipate, replaced by a class-structured society where elites were composed of both Romans and Goths, with a great deal of intermarriage. Family strategizing related to social class became more important than group identity. This is a good example of the weakness of extended kinship bonds among Western peoples and the tendency to splinter in the absence of threat.”

• Kevin MacDonald, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition