Brett Stevens #racist #dunning-kruger #wingnut #sexist amerika.org

It makes sense for him to do this since genetic similarity is innate, while laws and so on are externally imposed or “artificial” in our common parlance. People have allegiance to enduring and solid things like heritage, culture, class, and family, but not to abstractions written on paper.

This calls to mind an old expression, “blood will out.” This refers to how people can hide their heritage and class with money, but eventually, their behavior reveals who they really are inside as opposed to the carefully-constructed artifice that they show the rest of us.

Even more, ethnic identity consists of what makes us different, not similar, since all of humanity is relatively similar at a lowest-common-denominator level. People identify with the parts of their heritage that make them stand out, as we can see in the case of Chloë Sevigny:

Ethnicity: French-Canadian, English, Scottish, Polish

Chloë’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Malinowski.

Despite being only one-quarter of her heritage, as with Angela Merkel, her differentness defined her, and so when it came time for a partner, she chose Sinisa Mackovic, a man of obviously Asiatic features and Eastern European origin.

Blood will out. Even in traces, it comes through in how we see ourselves, and whatever is finer gives way to whatever is more distinctive, namely what makes us different. A Chinaman in America sees himself as Chinese, and a quarter-Polish girl will see herself as Polish.

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