When did eradicating "Whiteness" first began?

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[–]milkmender11 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Geography is not genetics, though. The various white races are frequently as different from one another as they are from non-white races. Sarmatians, Laplanders, Fins, Phrygians, Slavs, Teutons, Anglo-Saxons... William Lawrence categorized the many typologies quite thoroughly. Thomas Huxley correctly divided the white races into 'dark' and 'light' varieties. Remember--as you get further from Africa, genetic diversity reduces. Only the East Asians can claim a relatively small number of typologies.

We must prioritize science above our desire for racial unity. As much as it may pain us to admit, there is no cohesive white race. It is important for us to acknowledge that whiteness is a gradient, a series of typologies with variable purity.

[–]AidsVictim69 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The various white races are frequently as different from one another as they are from non-white races.

Not really, at least for Europeans. Everyone in Europe proper is relatively closely related genetically and to a lesser extent culturally. A Swede and Italian are more closely related than an Italian and Algerian.

Sarmatians, Laplanders, Fins, Phrygians, Slavs, Teutons, Anglo-Saxons... William Lawrence categorized the many typologies quite thoroughly. Thomas Huxley correctly divided the white races into 'dark' and 'light' varieties. Remember--as you get further from Africa, genetic diversity reduces. Only the East Asians can claim a relatively small number of typologies.

Europe is a very geographically small area (relative to the rest of Eurasia/Africa) there isn't really enough room for some massive "racial" diversity there and that's reflected in genetic maps where all Europeans are are tightly bound with each other. Once you start talking about "white" races in Central Eurasia/Anatolia/ME things become more complicated but generally these over specialized categorization systems don't make sense in modern genetic landscapes. Slavs, Germans, Italians etc are not radically different from each other, especially compared to their closest relatives in North Africa/ME