Written by Helge LurĂ¥s,
Director of the
Oslo, Norway and poorly translated by me with apologies
to Helge.
In this article, Helge speaks to the complete
contradiction in the belief system held by many social progressives. On the one hand,
they dismiss their culture as having no intrinsic value yet on the other hand they state they have no culture. If culture is valueless why is
it so important to strongly deny its very existence? Both assertions cannot be correct. But the illogic goes deeper. The detestation social progressives have for their own culture is not equally applied to the migrant's culture. To social progressives the migrant's culture must be respected to the point of being preferred to that of their own. This is insanity on lysergic diethylamide. The amount of
cognitive dissonance created by such blatant contradictions should be
sufficient to make a social progressive’s head explode.
I apologize to Helge as well as to my readers for any inaccuracies in meaning in my translation of his wonderful article. It was necessary to reword some of it rather than transliterating it directly. Many phrases would have lost meaning if I had done so. Please share this blog post with your family and friends. We are in a war for the survival of our culture.
I apologize to Helge as well as to my readers for any inaccuracies in meaning in my translation of his wonderful article. It was necessary to reword some of it rather than transliterating it directly. Many phrases would have lost meaning if I had done so. Please share this blog post with your family and friends. We are in a war for the survival of our culture.
“What is a Norwegian? Yes, what is an ethnic Norwegian, and has these
"Norwegians" some moral reason to still exist in two hundred years? This
has actually been a highly topical, and controversial, issue in contemporary
Norway. On Dagsnytt 18 (21.02.2017) a major Dagsnytt commentator Hege
Ulstein stated no when she was asked if she saw any problem about ethnic
Norwegians becoming the minority in Norway in the future. In 2017, the
proportion of ethnic Norwegians between 77-84%, depending on how one calculates
an ethnic Norwegian. When there was a halt in immigration in 1975, the
proportion was about 97%.
But Ulstein went further than it. Having first
recognized completely spontaneously that she had a sense of what an ethnic
Norwegian was, she went on to question whether the term ethnic Norwegian
should be used. For what is an ethnic Norwegian? What is the definition? What
criteria should be the foundation? There were other guests in the studio
who were given the task of trying to defend that ethnic Norwegians are actually
something that exists. Culture and language was mentioned, and also a
particular set of values. But the underlying question is very sensitive as
to what role lineage, physical relationships, genes and biology have to say
about "Norwegian" identity.
Ulstein and her many likeminded fellow progressives look to lure those who
would use terms like "ethnic Norwegian" and also expresses concerns about those who are worried that ethnic Norwegians are becoming the minority in
Norway and that national identity has a relationship to kinship and descent. As though those who use terms about how ethnic Norwegians appear should wish to deny that such
a physical dimension is possible, as if this were a deeply damaging accusation.
This shows how uptight, guilt ridden and removed from
reality we have become in Norway. We are human beings, we are physical
individuals who (until further notice) are born of the merging of egg and sperm
cells from a woman and a man. Our mind, culture and values cannot exist
without the central nervous system, which is a physical thing. Therefore, unless
one takes a child from the biological parents at birth, there is consistency
between bloodlines and culture and values. When you come, for example, as
a refugee to Norway as an adult, one has grown up and been socialized in a different
culture than the one which exists in Norway. This you take with you.
It also a cultural ballast even if one has moved to
Norway and takes Norwegian citizenship. And when a migrant in Norway
has children, they would naturally bring at least parts of their original
culture and values into the upbringing of their children. Thus, it takes a long time before a migrant will become "Norwegian" culturally, even if they
wish it with all their hearts. And perhaps this may never happen, because
the migrant wants to preserve parts of their culture and values even if they
and their descendants reside in Norway. And biological conditions will also
play a role in further assimilation. If a foreigner with Norwegian
citizenship marries an ethnic Norwegian, their biological children will most
likely receive more of the original Norwegian culture and values than the
children of two foreigners who live (accidentally) in Norway.
And the proportion of foreigners with Norwegian
citizenship living in Norway will of course have a bearing on how much of the
original Norwegian culture is transferred to the immigrants. For if foreigners
hardly meet Norwegians in their immediate environment, they have no opportunity
to "learn to be Norwegian." Then there will be a lack of
Norwegian values and culture to continue, but something else as well. And brought
forward it will be characterized by the culture of those who moved here had with
them as their cultural baggage.
There is thus a connection between kinship and descent on
one side and the values and culture on the other. Hypersensitivity to
think about the concepts of human and biological sciences in the same breath is
due to, of course, the Western settlement with racism and Nazism after World
War II, but it has led to some absurd fallacies and denials. The case is
obvious, but will be denied the same way: it makes sense to talk about
"Chinese", "Sherpas," "Eskimos" and "Swedes",
it also provides meaning to talk about "Norwegians". And a
person who is born of two Norwegian parents, with four Norwegian grandparents,
has very high probability to have at least some other values and culture than a
person born in Norway of two Somali parents. If people within the country
live in a parallel society, these differences can persist in hundreds and
thousands of years. And if the starting point is so in appearance
different ethnic groups that Somalis and Norwegians, these cultural differences will also be visible for just as long, including for geneticists studying DNA.
It has become commonplace to ask the question: but what
does it mean to be Norwegian? And it is not one single criterion or a
single common denominator for this. But such a lack of absolute precision,
is no different for the question about what it means to be Chinese. And
strictly speaking, also not for the question of what it means to be Christian,
or Muslim or Buddhist. But that does not mean it does not exist, or is
meaningful to talk about Chinese people, Muslims, Norwegians, Christians and
Buddhists. And all can relate in practical life to the fact that there are
Muslims and Chinese people even though none of them manage to answer with one
simple criterion what that would entail.
So, the problem is not that there is no single criterion
for what it means to be Norwegian/ethnic Norwegian (we are now forced to call
some ethnic Norwegian rather than simply Norwegian because e.g. a Somali with
Norwegian citizenship in the political correct sense will also be called
"Norwegian"). The problem is rather that anyone would expect
there to be any single criteria for what it means to belong to a specific
ethnic or national group, that is, that one at all ask the question: what will
it mean to be Norwegian, Chinese etc.? And that one would expect a
concrete answer.
To make a diagnosis in psychiatry one needs to meet the
"diagnostic criteria" for various conditions and diseases. There
can, for example, be twenty different criteria that are related to a
personality disorder such as psychopathy. Patients are not expected to
meet all of these criteria. But one can, for example, assert that the
condition is met if one turns out of 14 of the 20 criteria, or one to get ‘so
and so’ many "points" in a total "score for psychopathy." So,
we can also understand the suffering "ethnic Norwegian." Now it
is fortunate that we need not make such research on ethnicity as we do for a
disease such as psychopathy, but for both the "Norwegian" and
"psychopathy", there will be obvious cases after cases where we can
rule out that one is a Norwegian or a psychopath.
Keep this in mind the next time people with utopian ideas
of social and political experimentation trying to put you on the defensive with
questions such as: what does it really mean to be Norwegian? Most will likely
understand very well and intuitively if they are ethnically Norwegian, if they are
partial Norwegian ethnics or if they are of foreign ethnicity who hold Norwegian citizenship. And when such people want to remove the concept of Norwegian
and ethnic Norwegian from the vocabulary, then it is indicative of an extreme
desire to change the social and political realities. Hege Ulstein and Company are probably not always conscious of it themselves, but such a social
manipulative system of political correctness was perfected in the Soviet Union,
and it is totalitarian.”
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