Widening Circle of Empathy: The Final Frontier

Sic Transit Gloria Homo Albus

The town of Székesfehérvár, Hungary--a thousand-year-old city home to the original royal court--just applied for the coveted 'European Capital of Culture.' The video they submitted was turned down flat by the E.U. jury. The reason?

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'There are too many happy white people and crosses, and not enough migrants.' … One of the European Union’s experts said with astonishment: 'This is the propaganda film for white Christian Europe; everyone is white, happy and dancing in the streets.'

Just a few months later, the soccer World Cup final pitted France against Croatia. Before the match, France's Anti-Defamation League posted:

'France's team, multi-colored, multi-ethnic, goes head to head with a Croatian team that's distressingly uniform.  Knowing Croatia's history, no surprise. Balkan-centric, nostalgic for an era which worshiped only brute strength, they play a soccer that is bland, colorless, flavorless…

'France will win—she's already won! She unites, welcomes, understands. … Let's keep fighting so that our Republic's values stay on top, even if—against all odds—we lose.'

Hungary 'too white,' Croatia 'colorless'… Whence this race-obsessed rhetoric? 

Steven Pinker has written at length about the 'widening circle of empathy.'  We at TWCS believe that it has four phases, and that certain Western countries have now entered the fourth and terminal phase: the desire for self-replacement.

On what do we base this claim?

And if true, where does it come from? How do we know when it's approaching? Is there anything we can do to stop it?

I. Widening Empathy: First 3 Stages

Our research has led us to believe that out-group altruism goes through 4 phases:

1. The clan: Enmity towards all outside one's clan.
2. The ethny: Trust for all in one's own ethnic group.
3. Multiculturalism: Trust for alien ethnic groups.  [Most Western countries are here.]
4. Ethno-suicide: Wish for self-replacement by alien ethnic groups.

This fourth and final stage is what we shall look at today, as it seems to be hurtling towards us with astounding speed. 

But first, a quick reminder of the first three phases of out-group altruism.

1) Clan: We trust them only

[Current example: Andamanese Islanders.]

 Our hunter-gatherer past: To be in the out-group meant instant death

It cannot be stressed enough that out-group enmity is the historical norm in all populations.  We come from small hunter-gatherer groups; our oldest and deepest instincts are 'trust closest family; be ready to kill all others.' (Rushton, Diamond)   As E.O. Wilson says, 'the selection pressures of hunter-gatherer existence have persisted for over 99% of human genetic evolution.' This is our common genetic heritage.

Sentinel Islanders attack rescue helicopter after tsunami

Hibbing et al., in their groundbreaking 'Predisposed' (on the difference between lefty and righty brains), had this to say:

Our best guess is that in the rough and tumble of the Pleistocene, individuals who tried new things, opened themselves up to members of other tribes, and had little to no negativity bias were rare—it simply seems a losing long-term strategy in the face of all the dangers swirling about.

… Selection pressures in such environments would likely favor individuals with higher degrees of negativity bias, who approached novel situations with caution, who were loyal to their group, and who were suspicious of the tribe over the hill. 

They warn that this old way of thinking could in fact come back:

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Liberalism may thus be viewed as an evolutionary luxury afforded by negative stimuli becoming less prevalent and less deadly. If the environment shifted back to the threat-filled atmosphere of the Pleistocene, positive selection for conservative orientations would reappear and, with sufficient time, become as prevalent as it was then.

2) Ethny: We trust our whole ethnic group

[Current example: Japan]

The second phase: extending trust to groups outside our immediate clan.  This seems to have come about after our switch to farming, and to widely varying degrees across the world. (We looked at the data in-depth here.) 

Japanese queuing for supplies in Aobaku after 2011 earthquake

See, for example, Francis Fukuyama on the Japanese: 

Consensus comes about relatively easily in Japan. ... Networks based on reciprocal moral obligation have ramified throughout the Japanese economy because the degree of generalized trust possible among unrelated people is extraordinarily high. ... Something in Japanese culture makes it very easy for one person to incur a reciprocal obligation to another and to maintain this sense of obligation over extended periods of time.

Or Salvador de Madariaga on the English (1929):

...the English sensitiveness to the 'laws of things'--the law of the road, the law of the sea, the law of the hunting field. ... the English are the teachers of the world, not merely in their quickness to perceive these natural laws, but in their cordial and sincere obedience to the restrictions which they impose upon each individual for the good of the whole. 

For one example of where it has not fully taken root, social anthropologist Roberto DaMatta sums up his country, Brazil:

If I am buying from or selling to a relative, I neither seek profit nor concern myself with money. The same can happen in a transaction with a friend. But, if I am dealing with a stranger, then there are no rules, other than the one of exploiting him to the utmost.

Where out-group trust is low, littering tends to be high (Mexico)

So how did we move from 'All outside our clan must die' to 'My whole ethnic group can be trusted'? No one is quite sure, but  HBD Chick, drawing on Mitterauer, Todd, Clark, and others, has argued that the Germanic 'core' of Northern Europe underwent a series of unusual selection pressures (see her outstanding piece here, also JayMan and Peter Frost). Among them were Church-imposed outbreeding and manorialism, which seem to have fostered nuclear families and individualism, commonweal-orientation, civicness and less violence.

Democracy and the Hajnal Line, via HBD Chick

Examples of such high-trust societies would be the England, Germany, or Japan of the 19^th / early 20^th century—civicness and low interpersonal violence among members of society, but ruthless towards outsiders.

3) Multiculturalism: We trust alien groups

[Current example: Anglos, Scandinavians, Germanics.]

The third phase of the 'widening circle of empathy,' where much of the West has arrived today, is that of extending trust to alien out-groups—the more alien, the better. When did this change come about? 

We have in fact researched the question in-depth, in 'When Progressives Get [Multiculturalist] Religion,' but to give a quick snapshot, changing immigration policy tells the tale. At what point did we start opening our doors wide to groups so very unlike us?

a) The U.S.

America once let in Europeans only. In 1920, that was narrowed down to NW Euros only. Then the 1965 Immigration Act changed everything:

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Since the U.S. was then still in stage two, 'Ethno-centrism,' Ted Kennedy had to stand before the Congress and assure them that this law 'will not upset the ethnic mix of our society.' 

Reality: 

Welcome one, welcome all

b) Australia

In Australia, the long-standing 'White Australia Policy' intended immigrants to be ethnically-Euro:

Life Magazine, November 1955

Until the cultural revolution of the 1960s, Australia remained an unashamedly White Christian nation with a strong Anglo-Celtic ethnic base. ... As a result of the Immigration Restriction Act, Australia had become, by this time, one of the Whitest countries in the world.

Until, in the 1980s, they began to open their doors to outsiders:

From Euro to Asian

c) The U.K.

In the U.K., non-white immigration was very low until the 1990s: 

The change in the size of the foreign born population between 2001 and 2011 was absolutely without precedent in British history.

Opening the doors at last

And who are all these 'foreign-born'? Non-whites lead the charge:

The 2.5 million increase in population over the last decade has been driven entirely by non-'white British' people migrating to the country and higher birth rates among ethnic minority groups, official figures have indicated.

d) Canada

Canada had once favored European immigration only, but this changed due to laws passed from 1967-1976:

The changing face of Canada

Now Canadians can vaunt their openness to the Other:

e) Sweden

Even Sweden, open-doors country par excellence, didn't start ushering in the third world until the 1970s. Before that, its immigrants were largely other Scandinavians. 

Sweden opens to the world

It appears, then, that most Western countries stayed in the 'Ethno-centric' phase until quite late, around the 1960s-1980s. This period seems to be the turning point from 'Just us' to 'Outsiders welcome.'

Having seen phases 1, 2, and 3 of the 'widening circle of empathy,' then, it would seem that the third phase—Multiculturalism—is as far as one can go. Welcome in alien ethnies, eat lots of exotic food, and we all live happily ever after... n'est-ce pas?

But there is indeed a final frontier.

II. The Final Frontier—Self-replacement

'Germany Abolishes Itself,' 'The French Suicide'

Multiculturalism, we have thus seen, is a welcoming in of alien ethnic groups (truly alien—not Danes into Sweden, but Somalis into Sweden).

But where is the line between Multiculturalism and Self-replacement? 

It seems there is a slow evolution. First, we welcome in alien groups. Then, we start to offer them perks that we do not offer our own group. Lastly, in the terminal phase, we call on them to replace us.

Bloomberg's vision for America

As Robert Merry puts it,

When in history have we seen a civilization turn on itself with such savagery as we see in the West today? What civilizations of the past or present have repudiated themselves and their cultural foundations with such focused intent, then invited in masses of others who don’t share the heritage?

Or Anthony Brown in The Guardian:

One demographer, who didn't want to be named for fear of being called racist, said: 'It's a matter of pure arithmetic that, if nothing else happens, non-Europeans will become a majority and whites a minority in the UK. That would probably be the first time an indigenous population has voluntarily become a minority in its historic homeland.'

Even still, the charge that certain Western peoples are actively trying to commit ethno-suicide sounds, on its face, rather far-fetched. What is the evidence?

1) We're encouraged to replace ourselves with immigrants

One clear sign is that our leaders--those who are meant to show us the way forward--are calling for the effacement our native populations. To wit:

 Years ago Bill Clinton years ago celebrated the coming white displacement:

To Clinton, an America without a white majority is a worthy destiny. As he put it a year ago to a small gathering of black columnists, “Along with our founding, which was an act of genius, and the freeing of slaves in the Civil War and the long civil rights movement, this will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.”

Twenty years later, vice president Joe Biden happily reports:

"By 2017, those of us of European stock will be an absolute minority in the United States of America,” Biden said at a State Department luncheon for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Biden added that that’s “not a bad thing, that’s a good thing.”

French president Nicolas Sarkozy (conservative) has said,

'The goal is to meet the challenge of multiculturalism which the 21st century presents us. It's not a choice, it's an obligation. We can't do otherwise…We have to change, so we will change.' 

'The new France will be a France where the expression "native Frenchman" has disappeared.' 

Angela Merkl's Finance Minister made the surprising claim that Germans marrying one another is somehow 'inbreeding':

Wolfgang Schäuble said closing Germany’s borders would ‘ruin’ the country. ... In an interview with weekly paper Die Zeit, Mr Schäuble rejected the idea Europe could close its borders to immigrants, and said: “Isolation is what would ruin us – it would lead us into inbreeding.”

  E.U. Immigration Commissioner for Migration lays out Brussels' doctrine:

“It’s time to face the truth. We cannot and will never be able to stop migration,” writes EU Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulo. 

He also praised a series of Politico articles which accuse the EU of being “too white”, in which the bloc was urged to bring in measures which would encourage replacing native Europeans with “people of colour” in Brussels jobs.

And at the truly ethno-masochistic end of the spectrum: 

'Everywhere you saw nothing but this superb brown color that only the loveliest human beings have. ... Personally, I don't want to be Western. I don't want to be a white Catholic; I'd rather be a black atheist.'

--French presidential candidate (and white Catholic) Jean-Luc Melenchon, describing a political rally full of immigrants

'Look at all the beautiful colours the women here are wearing. Within ten years this is what it is going to look like all over Europe. Back home it’s so bleak and dreary,the colours are devoid of life. ...'   

--Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg on a state visit to Lagos, Nigeria

Political leaders everywhere have turned fretting about being 'too white' into a near-obsession:

Spot the fake

From the top of society, self-replacementism has percolated into the media, such as HuffPo Germany in their piece, 'Re-people us! Why the German people should be abolished':

Black, brown, yellow, white, Asians and Arabs, Africans, you people from America, India, people of all faiths – come and help us! Stream in and re-people us, but thoroughly! ... A little more genetic and cultural seed-scattering here and a little more self-abolition through reproduction fatigue there – that, as Deniz Yücel once called it, would be the “most beautiful side of the perishing of a people”.

2) We're encouraged to out-marry

One interesting aspect of plain old multiculturalism was the quite forceful propagandizing required to make people accept it. Not that we use the word as a pejorative--anti-smoking propaganda in the U.S. from the 1970s on, for example, has been hugely successful at stopping this harmful habit.

Nonetheless the images used in diversity campaigns have greatly evolved. In the past they were often of, say, a multi-racial group of friends, or a black family interacting with a white family.

Old-fashioned diversity

The new diversity images are altogether different. We now have advertisers, TV shows, etc. spurring on Euro-descended people to marry outside their group.

In a country where the 'one-drop rule' still reigns, in a mixed-race couple, the black parent's children will still be considered black/Afro, while the white parent's children will no longer be considered white/Euro. In this sense, the Euro parent, but not the Afro one, is erasing his ethnic heritage.

Whether erasing the Euro ethny is a good thing or not is, of course, up for debate. One finds it hard to imagine, however, a campaign urging Thais to stop giving birth to Thais, or Persians to stop giving birth to Persians, or Igbos to stop giving birth to Igbos.  

In any case in the West, by far advertisers' favorite couple is white woman, black man:

Far less popular, but still common: black woman, white man:

The U.K. has gone all in, as each Christmas season brings a slew of holiday ads encouraging out-marriage; see this impressive 22-minute compilation:

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Hollywood has jumped on this bandwagon full force as well:

Something New, Get Out, The Handmaid's Tale, Boiler Room

National Geographic tells us that by 2050, all Americans will be some shade of brown:

Founding stock erasure: The new national fixation

Scientists assure us that mixed-race kids end up taller and smarter:

Marry out--for superbabies! 

As well as just plain better:

White Britons cheering their end

If we are not able to create a non-Euro baby of our own, there's always Plan B--adopting children as racially different from ourselves as possible (Hollywood setting the example):

Top left to bottom right: Madonna; actresses Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, and Mariska Hartigay, celeb fitness guru Jillian Michaels; actresses Kristin Davis, Sandra Bullock, and Mary Louise Parker; Mitt Romney (grandchild), Steven Spielberg, Jane Fonda

Extremely proud of her melanin-enhanced brood, Angelina Jolie even confessed:

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All this boosterism has not been without effect. Public attitudes on interracial marriage have taken a sharp U-turn in the U.S.:

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(Nevertheless, lab studies have shown that this may be a case of simply telling pollsters what they want to hear.)

3) We're told to feel contempt for our own ethnic group

We all remember 'Black is Beautiful.' The slogan for our brave new world seems to be 'White is Ugly.' This desire for self-replacement seems born partly from a campaign to make white people hate their own skin color due, presumably, to its link to atrocities past.

It is a fascinating development. This ardent desire to see one's own ethnic group weaken or vanish in order to bring about peace on earth may be unprecedented in human history.  What was once limited to fringe academics...

...is now the subject of mainstream press headlines:

Our leaders seem convinced that Whiteness = Doom:

A school-wide questionnaire at Western Washington University asked the community “How do we make sure that in future years ‘we are not as white as we are today?’”  

“Every year, from this stage and at this time, you have heard me say that, if in decades ahead, we are as white as we are today, we will have failed as university,” [President Bruce] Shepard said in the 2012 speech. “In the decades ahead, should we be as white as we are today, we will be relentlessly driven toward mediocrity; or, become a sad shadow of our current self,” he wrote.

North Carolina lawmaker Craig Meyer:

'My own capacity for leadership perpetuates the whiteness within me, beckoning a return trip to look in the mirror. Perhaps I can’t fully suppress all the whiteness within me, and maybe that’s for the better. The process is the task, the journey has no end, and I will always be white.'

Maine state senator Richard Fochtmann:

A former candidate for the Maine State Senate was caught on video at an event hosted by the state Democratic Party celebrating the increasing rate of white male suicide — to massive cheers and laughter from the crowd. 

“You know, today I saw a thing that said a lot of men — white men — are committing suicide,” Fochtmann stated, “and I almost said yeah! Great!” As soon as Fochtmann finished his statement, the crowd began laughing.

The sentiment of self-loathing has dripped down the cultural ladder to the hoi polloi (images courtesy of the late great Baked Alaska):

Self-hate: On trend among the twitteratti

Just for a laugh, internet humorist 'Uncle Chang' has taken us on a swing through the looking-glass:

The amiable Steve Sailer may have put it the most succinctly of all:

When indeed...

4) We're erasing ourselves from our own history

Another area where we can clearly see the shift to auto-erasure is our own history: we're being called to remove ourselves from it.

The BBC's latest 

One of the most intense cases may be Sweden:

Western European politicians and bureaucrats tend to be postmodern multiculturalists – in Sweden, fanatically so. They feel a contempt for their own civilization and they regard this contempt as a mark of sophistication and virtue. 

They are especially fond of cultures that share their own contempt for the West, and hence there is no culture for which they show more deference than that of Islam.

a) Culture and Religion

No, not The Onion 

No doubt the Euro group the most far gone down the path of ethno-suicide, Swedes are eradicating their culture as fast as they can:

Every major event and holiday in Sweden — Christmas, Easter and Midsummer — is greeted with mocking newspaper articles and television programs informing Swedes that these traditional celebrations aren’t Swedish at all but foreign imports, and the cultureless Swedes don’t really have anything they can call their own. 

According to Fredrik Reinfeldt, ex-prime minister, “The original Swedish identity was just barbarism, and since then all progress has come from the outside.”

'National Day'  program, 2011 (not The Onion either) 

Alice Bah Kuhnke, the daughter of an immigrant from Gambia, recently appointed the Pakistani immigrant Qaisar Mahmood as chief of Sweden’s Cultural Heritage Archive. Mahmood has said he has never studied archeology or culture. [...] 

The soil of Sweden is full of Viking artifacts, and building projects have often provided a rich source of objects for museums, but ... In the new, modern and multicultural Sweden, Viking amulets, bracelets and other historical objects are not considered worth preserving, so they are sent to metal reclamation centers and melted down as scrap.

The BBC strikes again: 'Life in Roman Britain'

European countries are even doing all they can to de-Christianize Christmas so as not to 'offend' the newcomers.

In Denmark, a primary school in Graested cancelled a traditional church service marking the beginning of Christmas in order not to offend Muslim pupils. … In Germany, a school in Lüneburg postponed a Christmas party after a Muslim student complained that the singing of Christmas carols during school was incompatible with Islam. In Bolzano, Italy, a cardboard Christmas tree was ordered to be removed from the town hall because "it could have offended the sensibilities" of Muslims.

We wish you a merry burka 

In Spain, the Madrid City Council replaced Christmas festivities in the capital with a neo-Pagan "International Fair of the Cultures." … In Scotland, the regional government was accused of "undermining" Britain's Christian heritage by promoting "winter festivals" for ethnic minorities while ignoring Christmas.

Paris: Mayor abolishes Christmas Market, but hosts official Ramadan celebration

b) Education

Great Britain is just as enthusiastically hara kiri-ing its own history via the  school system:

Re-write the past, Soviet-style

Mr Denson said he disliked using the term 'fundamental British values' in his classroom when many of his pupils had ancestry in countries which had encountered British colonialism. He said: 'The inherent cultural supremacism in that term is both unnecessary and unacceptable. …  it belies the most thinly veiled racism and a conscious effort to divide communities.'

Rural England has become taboo at British universities:

A university has ditched a degree course on rural Britain because it says black and ethnic minority students are ‘less likely’ to visit the English countryside. Academics feared their teaching ‘normalised white experiences’, while ‘disadvantaged’ undergraduates from other backgrounds struggled to grasp concepts such as the ‘rural idyll’ – so scored lower grades. Kingston University is the latest institution to try to boost ‘diversity’ while ‘decolonising’ their degrees amid criticism they are too white and Western.

As for America, her founders and seminal figures--too pale, stale, and male—are all slated to be swept away. UC Berkeley's 'Occupy the Syllabus' has proclaimed:

Sit-in at Princeton over 'racist' Woodrow Wilson 

We have major concerns about social theory courses in which white men are the only authors assigned. These courses pretend that a minuscule fraction of humanity are the only people to produce valid knowledge about the world. This is absurd. …  

Furthermore, the classroom environment felt so hostile to women, people of color, queer folks and other marginalized subjects that it was difficult for us to focus on the course material. Sometimes, we were so uncomfortable that we had to leave the classroom in the middle of lecture. … We must dismantle the tyranny of the white male syllabus.

Others have claimed to be so traumatized by studying dead white men that they can't graduate Princeton on time, or that the classics should come with trigger warnings for the sensitive. 

The Zuckerberg clan helping us de-white our past

c) Statues and Symbols

Francis Scott Key and his 'racist anthem'

Not  just culture and education, but also symbols, portraits, and even names are being erased to keep up with the ethno-masochistic zeitgeist.

Paris is frantically re-naming streets in order that they 'ring with the history of migration.' Pale, stale, male portraits are being torn down at Oxford University,  Harvard University, and King's College London:

Harvard Medical School has removed 31 portraits of its former department heads from a lecture hall because all of the individuals are men, and 30 of them are white. Dr. Betsy Nabel, the hospital’s president, said she has been considering the move for several years, concerned that the lack of diversity might upset women and minorities who are training to become doctors.

A call to arms?

Not just portraits but names are on the chopping block: Yale's Calhoun College, Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, Georgetown's Mulledy and McSherry Halls are all up for re-naming, due to these men's connections with slavery. The name of Lebanon Valley College's Lynch Hall has to go too, since it gives black students cold sweats—despite no connection whatsoever to the practice of lynching (it is named for a beloved ex-president).

Christopher Columbus no longer welcome in Boston

After a White Nationalist rally in Virginia last year turned deadly, statues of Confederate heroes across the nation fell like dominoes. But soon the statue-toppling mania took a sharp left turn, targeting icons like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Christopher Columbus, and even Shakespeare, as well as the founders of Halifax, Canada; Broward County, Florida; and Austin, Texas.

San Francisco to remove all 'slave-owner' names from schools

Even national symbols have come under attack: U.S. high school students forbidden from wearing the American flag, a town in England refusing to celebrate St. George's Day because it's 'too English', and some towns in Australia banning 'Australia Day' celebrations, comparing them to the Holocaust.

Having taken a tour d'horizon of the state of ethno-masochistic discourse in the West, one might well ask oneself: How did we get here?

III. Where Did it Come From?

Cold ancestors, Hot ancestors

As it happens, we at TWCS have delved into the origins question before. Rather than repeat our findings here, we kindly direct interested readers to our recent investigation:

'Why Do Progressives Get [Multiculturalist] Religion?'

Turn-of-the-century postcard

The factors we explore in the piece are many, but to give a lightning-fast bullet list, they include cold winters in prehistory, taking up farming, not being mountain people, not being herders, outbreeding, manorialism, the printing press, urbanization, prosperity, feminism, Protestantism, not being Communist, academia, Jewish influence, and plain old hard-wired leftism.

Phew. (Do take a look if you have the time).


Which brings us to the final question…

IV. Where Will it End?

We've seen some compelling evidence that multiculturalism in the West is metastasizing into a kind of ethnic self-death wish. Have we seen this before? And where could it end?

1) Yesterday: Has such a thing happened before?

Goths sacking Rome

Naked conquest is, of course, as old as homo sapiens sapiens. But what about inviting in one's own replacements? Are there any precedents?

Various leaders and peoples throughout history have, in fact, invited in outsiders in mass numbers. Who?

a) Refugees

Rome, for example, is famous for inviting in the Germanics who would one day overthrow them. From Gibbons' Decline and Fall:

Valens was informed, that the North was agitated by a furious tempest; that the irruption of the Huns, an unknown and monstrous race of savages, had subverted the power of the Goths; and that the suppliant multitudes of that warlike nation, whose pride was now humbled in the dust, covered a space of many miles along the banks of the river.

Huns attacking the Goths

With outstretched arms, and pathetic lamentations, they loudly deplored their past misfortunes and their present danger; acknowledged that their only hope of safety was in the clemency of the Roman government; and most solemnly protested, that if the gracious liberality of the emperor would permit them to cultivate the waste lands of Thrace, they should ever hold themselves bound, by the strongest obligations of duty and gratitude, to obey the laws, and to guard the limits, of the republic.

The rest, of course, is history.

b) Workers

Ostsiedlung: Inviting workers from the West

Inviting in foreign populations to do work—manual or intellectual—is a tradition old as time.

Slavic nobles, for example, invited Germanics to settle their lands during the great medieval Ostsiedlung.

Poznan, settled by Germanics

Once slavery was outlawed, colonial powers very often called on alien groups to do grunt work, such as the Indians to Uganda, South Africa, or the Caribbean; Chinese to Malaysia or Indonesia; or Japanese to Hawaii and California. We're all familiar with the post-WW2 decision of Germany to invite in Turks and the French to invite North Africans—decisions they would live to regret.

Chinese coolies in Singapore

Not just dirty work but brainy work was a motive for bringing in alien groups. German and English nobles invited in the well-heeled Huguenots expelled from France in the 1500s and 1600s.

Jews were often invited in by medieval monarchs for moneylending (forbidden to Christians), or as merchants or administrators, such as by the King of Poland in 1264. In the East, the Chinese filled similar roles, as with Thai King Taksin who invited Chinese merchants to come settle in Thailand in large numbers in the late 1700s.

Prosperous Huguenots were desirable exiles

c) Rulers

Some groups have even invited in alien kings to rule over them. The Slavic and Finnish tribes of Novgorod couldn't stop making war on each other, so they called on the Viking Varangians (Rus) to come sort them out:

They said to themselves, "Let us seek a prince who may rule over us, and judge us according to the Law." They accordingly went overseas to the Varangian Rus'. … The Chuds, the Slavs, the Krivichs and the Ves then said to the Rus', "Our land is great and rich, but there is no order in it. Come to rule and reign over us". They thus selected three brothers with their kinfolk, who took with them all the Rus' and migrated. 

— The Primary Chronicle

Varangian Vikings, the first Russians

…and Russia was born.

The much-hated English incursion into Ireland began similarly, with an internal squabble between Irish kings. Diarmait, hoping to get back his crown, called upon some muscle—namely Anglo-Norman knights:

Irish squabbles

Within a year Diarmait had his throne back in Dublin. But he also now had an army of Anglo-Normans who weren't about to go away now that the job was done.  … [Anglo-Norman] Robert fitzStephen was quite right when he told his followers that Diarmait 'loves our race; he is encouraging our race to come here and has decided to settle them in this island and give them permanent roots...'.

d) Melding with the conquerors

In certain cases, an invaded people has adopted their conqueror's culture and intermarried to such an extent that they themselves disappear. Chris Roberts shares the example of the Opata Indians, in this excerpt from 'The Apaches: Eagles of the Southwest':

Apache Indian home

Jesuit missionaries, headed by Padre Kino, entered Pimeria Alta [New Spain, near Arizona] during the 1680s. The Piman peoples and Opatas welcomed them and quickly accepted Christianity. . . . Of all the tribes the Spaniards encountered in North America none adopted the Spanish way of life more readily or more successfully than the Opatas. They and the Pimas soon assumed major roles in the Sonora settlements.

Pimeria Alta, American Southwest

Opatas, because of their special relationship with the Spaniards, were called “the spoiled children of the Spanish crown” and “the most valiant, most noble and most loyal among all friendly tribes”—the Tlascaltecas of the interior land. They intermarried with Spaniards and later with Mexicans to the extent that they disappeared as a distinct tribe, and their language was ultimately replaced by Spanish.

But none of these invitations—be they for workers, leaders, or refugees--was, as far as we can tell, with the express intention of replacing one's own group.

2) Tomorrow: Blueprint for a euro-minority future?

So here we are: Replacement rhetoric is today reaching fever pitch, with actions not far behind. What does it mean for the future? 

'Back to school' photo on French Education Dept. website

There are two schools of thought.

One is that all the above is just talk. John McWhorter asserts that multiculturalism has become a 'secular religion' and as such, the pious mouth the right platitudes in order to be seen as virtuous by their peers. In that case, the winds of ideological fashion could quickly change. Thus, we have nothing to fear.

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The other is that far from just a passing fancy, pathological out-group altruism is something we've in fact bred into us.  In this case, there's no going back. We're going to replace ourselves come hell or high water, because our genes are telling us to.

Or some combination of the two.

So what is next?

Since this current self-replacement mania is without historical precedent, it is hard to say where it will lead. Some ideas:

a) The Brazil Model

Rio de Janeiro

Some suggest the U.S. will slowly become 'Brazil North'--a small white upper class, an enormous brown mixed middle, with Amerindians and Blacks at the bottom.  A rise in violent crime to the point where all middle-class people live in gated (15-foot barbed wire with armed guards) communities, while the poor masses subsist in giant slums of corrugated tin shacks.  Still a dynamic economy, but far higher levels of corruption and crime than we know now.  Possible?

 'Paraisopolis' slum rubs elbows with 

gated condo complex,  Sao Paulo, Brazil

Maybe. But the white class in Brazil is not made of exactly the same stuff as its U.S. counterpart. The former is a mix of Portuguese, N. Italian, German, Levantine, Japanese, and others, and its culture reflects that.  So in a future 'Brazil North,' there's no reason to believe the white remnant left in America would behave exactly the same as its South American neighbor's.

b) The Balkans Model

As Euros become a minority in their own lands, some predict a Balkans (or 'break-up') model, mirroring that of the former Yugoslavia or the partition of India.

White Americans have enthusiastically invited the poorest 20% of Mexico to replace them in the Southwest.  The latter are very keen to 'take back' their lands... 

Aztlan, the Reconquest

So much so that Euro-Americans may find themselves driven to mass flight. How close are we?

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Could one imagine a future where the entire U.S. Southwest breaks off as 'Mexico Norte'?

But there are other separatisms brewing. Of course the South seceded in the 19th century, but even today, the ethno-replacement in progress could end up with entire regions or even states breaking off. 

A variety of separatist movements are simmering here and there, including in Western Maryland, Northern Colorado, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan ('Superior'), Northern California and Southern Oregon ('Jefferson'),  or the wholesale secession efforts of Alaska, Texas, Vermont, and now California:

At the urban level, ethnic cleansing of Whites seems to already be leading to a 'breaking-off' into racially divided municipalities. Atlanta, GA:

Beginning in 2005, many communities [in Atlanta] began the process of incorporating into cities. Thus far, Milton, Sandy Springs, Brookhaven, Dunwoody, Chattahoochee Hills and Johns Creek have done so. 

These cities, after breaking away politically from urban Atlanta, have become so successful that ... the Economist has applauded [them] for solving the problem of unfunded government pension liability and avoiding the bankruptcy that looms over some urban areas. The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus filed a lawsuit in 2011 to dissolve the new cities, claiming they were a “super-white majority” and diluting the voting power of minorities.

Similar movements are underway in Baton Rouge, LA; Charlotte, NC; and Memphis, TN.

c) The Lebanon Model

Cathedral of St. George next to Mohammad al-Amin Mosque, Beirut, Lebanon

Looking at a map of North Africa, the Levant, and Turkey, it is easy to forget that these lands were once Christian:

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Europe today, in her zeal for self-replacement, is facing an existential threat wholly unlike that of the U.S. She has been welcoming in millions of Muslims these last decades, and as their own leaders proclaim openly, they have no intention of assimilating. To wit:

He’s Dr. Mudar Zahran, a Jordanian Palestinian academic currently living in the U.K., where he sought political asylum. Describing himself as an “orthodox Muslim,” he nonetheless says there’s a “genuine problem with Muslims in Europe” and calls the current wave of migrants entering the continent “the soft Islamic conquest of the West.”

Paris, 18th arondissement

Another Palestinian ex-pat:

Palestinian-Belgian jihad expert Montasser AlDe’emeh has issued a serious warning to Europe. In Dutch newspaper “De Telegraaf”, he states that Europe is essentially importing a civil war by admitting refugees. AlDe’emeh believes that Europe’s politicians are naïve when it comes to mass-immigration, Islam and failed integration. He advises halting the influx of refugees, stating that Western Europe is “importing a civil war.”

Englischer Garten, Munich

Bassam Tibi, Syrian scholar living in Germany:

'What conclusions can be drawn from the 'Eurabia' discussion? The fact is that the Islamic share of the European population will continue to rise without integration. The fact is that the EU has no policy to deal with this phenomenon that threatens its existence. ... [If nothing is done,] parallel societies will emerge, which in the long term will help transform Europe into Eurabia.'

Joke... or prophecy?

The 'Lebanon Model,' needless to say, would be a future in which Muslims were the majority but peaceful power-sharing existed. In the case of total conquest and subjugation of the native Christian population, we would be in the realm of an 'Egypt Model.'

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We have seen, then, the four steps in the 'widening circle of empathy.' From enmity to anyone outside the clan, to trust for one's whole ethnic group, to trust for alien groups, to the final and most extreme stage—the wish to be replaced by outsiders.

You don't exist: Science!

A slightly different cycle is described by 14th century scholar Ibn Khaldun, courtesy of Timothy Furnish:

Ibn Khaldun, based on his study of ancient, Islamic and Christian history, ascertained a cyclical pattern of rise-and-fall among what he termed “dynasties” which, mutatis mutandis, is applicable to our culture as well.  All of them go through three phases:

(1) The first is the one which establishes the society: “its members are used to privation and to sharing their glory with each other; they are brave….sharp and greatly feared.  People submit to them.” 

(2) Following that is the stage in which the society moves “from privation to luxury and plenty” and “the vigour of group feeling is broken…. the people “live in hope that the conditions that existed in the first generation may come back, or they live under the illusion that those conditions still exist.” 

(3) The final generation “has completely forgotten the period of…toughness, as if it had never existed…. because they are so much given to a life of prosperity and ease.  They…are like women and children who need to be defended. Group feeling disappears completely….. When someone comes and demands something from them, they cannot repel him.”

It seems to us, at first glance, that any people which arrives at 'Multiculturalism' seems to inevitably pass on to 'Self-replacement.' An old but prescient warning from Charles de Gaulle (1959):

'It is very good that there are yellow French, black French, brown French. They show that France is open to all races and has a universal vocation. But on condition that they remain a small minority. Otherwise, France would no longer be France. We are still primarily a European people of the white race, Greek and Latin culture, and the Christian religion. […] Those who advocate integration have the brain of a hummingbird.

'Arabs are Arabs, the French are French. Do you think the French body politic can absorb ten million Muslims, who tomorrow will be twenty million, after tomorrow forty? If we integrated, if all the Arabs and Berbers of Algeria were considered French, would you prevent them to settle in France, where the standard of living is so much higher? My village would no longer be called Colombey-The-Two-Churches but Colombey-The-Two-Mosques.'

Colombey-the-three-thousand-Mosques

Or the much-maligned 1968 warning from the UK's Enoch Powell:

He said: "We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.”

Savile Town, England: white population 1%

As the self-replacement rhetoric continues to ramp up, the future of ethnic NW Euros seems uncertain. Will some Euro groups simply allow themselves to be reduced to a minority in their own lands?

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Or will there be a backlash, as some have claimed to see in the votes on Brexit, Donald Trump, and the new Italian government?

Italy does a 180

It is hard to say. The idea of inviting in aliens to replace us out of a sense of guilt over our ancestors' actions may well be without historical precedent.  Writing on Euro self-hatred 35 years ago in The Tears of the White Man, Pascal Bruckner warned:

Hatred of the West is really a hatred of all cultures concentrated on a single one. In the beginning, one finds nothing loveable in oneself, but in the end, one loses the ability to love others. … Let us become our own friends first, so that we can become the friends of others again. … Every self-destructive wish carries with it a generalized negativity that envisions the end of the world.

Today, we appear to be terra incognita. Is this excessive out-group altruism a trait bred into us by natural selection? Or is it just an ideological flight of fancy, a fashionable new religion, that will blow out just as quickly as it blew in?

Only time will tell.

Thank you for reading.

Previously:

'When Progressives Get Religion',

'Why Do Progressives Get Religion?'