In an oppositely titled book the author tells white people to get used to being dispossessed of their culture, yet in 537 pages, he never pauses to explain to readers why the modern West—the most open and universalistic society in the history of the world—is obliged to become still more open and universalistic, while everyone else is fine the way they are. This book, as in contemporary politics, such is the wrong assumption throughout. The book raises the obvious question of why Americans and Europeans cannot control their own demographic future just as the Japanese and South Koreans are doing?? No answer within the 537 pages.
In the West the demographic shift presently occurring is one away from whiteness. The books author, an admixure of non-whiteness himself, forecasts a greatly increasing rate of racial intermixture.
The author was born in Hong Kong to a Jewish father and mixed Costa Rican/Chinese mother, raised in Vancouver, he spent eight years in Tokyo before becoming professor of politics at the University of London. The non-white author seems to not be hostile to whites, but his prescriptions are unlikely to satisfy anyone who truly values Western civilization.
The book is divided into four parts, nominally corresponding to the possible responses of fighting, repressing, fleeing and joining.
But Part 1: Fight, which occupies over half the book, never seriously tries to imagine what a successful strategy for countering white dispossession would look like. Such an approach might be alright for the Japanese, but the author is not about to consider it for the West.
The author makes it appear that whites’ reward for accepting admixture will be getting hit with even greater admixture in the future. Unmixed whites can be expected to survive for a time in ever-shrinking rural areas, rather as Gaelic speakers persist in remote corners of Ireland, but they will be more like museum specimens than a civilization.
A writer’s deepest convictions often emerge less from his explicit arguments than in casual, throw-away remarks, and a particularly revealing one pops up on p. 451: “The American state can work with almost any ethnic or religious configuration, adopt any official language, and still function pretty well.”
The rather confused author does not believe that institutions reflect the specific character of the people who created them; he thinks race only matters insofar as people suppose it does. It follows that the West will survive by some people continuing to “identify” with it.
This may allow us some hope for civil peace and reduced racial tension in the future, which is the author’s primary concern. But it does not bode well for the survival of the uniquely inventive and dynamic societies Europeans have historically created. Read the article HERE.
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