Nordish race
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Nordish race is a term coined by white nationalist Richard McCulloch referring to a theoretical sub-category Caucasoid subspecies. McCulloch rejects Caucasoid as a race, because it is so expansive in its scope that it is meaningless. McCulloch considers it instead a "subspecies". [1] "Nordish" is a variant of the more established term "Nordic race" intended to bring a wider array of racial types under that umbrella. Indigenous Northern European peoples and their descendants around the world are said to be part of this race.
On his website The Racial Compact, McCulloch argues for "racial rights" and "racial preservation" in the face of encroaching "multiracialism." He focuses in particular on the rights of the "Nordish people."
In McCulloch's view the Nordish group encompasses several types: Hallstatt Nordic, Keltic Nordic, Brünn, Borreby, Anglo-Saxon, Trønder, Fälish, North-Atlantid, Paleo-Atlantid, Neo-Danubian, East Baltic, Noric and Sub-Nordic. Even though there are different subraces with varying phenotypes, idealized traits of the race are light hair, light eyes and tall stature.
The source material for the classification system is The Races of Europe (1939) by anthropologist Carleton Coon, but opponents argue that his typology is misrepresented by the grouping together, based on geographical proximity, of many different subraces that have few physical affinities in Coon's model. For example, Nordic, East Baltic and Noric types are respectively closer in morphology (and probably ancestry) to Mediterranean, Alpine and Dinaric types than they are to one another. Also downplayed are the Mediterranean elements in Britain and the mongoloid (via Ladogan) component of Neo-Danubians and East Baltics.
[edit] External links
- The Nordish Race definition by Richard McCulloch
- Society for Nordish Physical Anthropology
- Nordish? by Karl Earlson
[edit] References
- ^ McCulloch, Richard. The Racial Compact. Racial Diversity. 2004. August 13, 2006. <http://www.racialcompact.com/racialdiversity.html>.
