文档介绍：PSYCHOLOGY AND WHITE ETHNOCENTRISM
KEVIN MACDONALD
hile growing up I would often read accounts of European heroes
who had battled for their people and for great causes. William
WWallace, Robert Bruce and the Scots against the English, Sir Francis
Drake leading the battle against the Spanish Armada, Charles Martel and
the Franks defending Europe against the Muslims, King Leonidas and the
Spartans at Thermopylae, and many others. Those days seem over now. Our
political leaders are actually managing the displacement of their own people,
and very few white people have the courage to do anything other than vote
them back into offi ce. Or they vote for the other party, which simply changes
the faces of the managers.
How can it e to this? One might think that evolution would have
equipped us with powerful mechanisms of ethnocentrism and group identity
that would ensure that such a thing could never happen. We would naturally
stand up for our people and fi ght the good fi ght, even at great cost. We would
willingly die for our people—like William Wallace, whose death is described
as follows:
On 23 August 1305, following the trial, Wallace was taken from the hall,
stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to
Smithfi eld Market. He was drawn and quartered—strangled by hanging
but released near death, emasculated, eviscerated and his bowels burnt
before him, beheaded, then divided into four parts (the four horrors) at
the Elms in Smithfi eld. His preserved head was placed on a pike atop
London Bridge. It was later joined by the heads of his brother, John,
and Simon Fraser. His limbs were displayed, separately, in Newcastle,
Berwick, Stirling and
But there are no William Wallaces or mass movements of racial defense
for Europeans, and the question is why this is so. The even more important
question is how we can use our understanding of psychology to chart a path
to legitimizin