{"id":5183,"date":"2004-03-19T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-19T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2021-06-13T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:16:00","slug":"racism-and-xenophobia-linked-to-biological-fear-of-outsiders-in-stone-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/03\/19\/racism-and-xenophobia-linked-to-biological-fear-of-outsiders-in-stone-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism and xenophobia linked to biological fear of outsiders in Stone Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is academic nonsense. Pagel and Mace ignore the historical origins of racism. It is NOT simply fear of foreigners or those who are different. The doctrine of racial purity, for example, demands that the “herrenvolk” reject even close relatives who are culturally and physically like them but of mixed ancestry. The average German Jew was very German. The American or Briton accused of “passing for white” is usually very white in both culture and phenotype.<\/p>\n

Racism and xenophobia linked to biological fear of outsiders in Stone Age<\/a>
\nBy Steve Connor
\nScience Editor
\n18 March 2004<\/p>\n

Racism and xenophobia could have a deep-seated biological basis dating from our Stone Age past, explaining why people naturally tend to shun outsiders.<\/p>\n

For tens of thousands of years prior to the rise of agriculture in about 8,000BC, human societies lived in close-knit tribes of hunter-gatherers which survived best if they distrusted outsiders, according to two anthropologists.<\/p>\n

Mark Pagel of Reading University and Ruth Mace of University College London believe this aversion to strangers was more than simply protecting territory but a way of ensuring the greatest degree of altruistic co-operation within a social group. Such behaviour could explain why humans are so culturally diverse, because shunning outsiders would lead to the evolution of different languages and traditions which tend to reinforce differences between tribes and ethnic groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, see: Are “White” Americans All “Passing as White”? The Alchemy of “Race”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is academic nonsense. Pagel and Mace ignore the historical origins of racism. It is NOT simply fear of foreigners or those who are different. The doctrine of racial purity, for example, demands that...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-5183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-evolution-and-human-migration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1lB","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7348,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions\/7348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}