The double standards that are applied to ethnic-Europeans compared to other races have been felt for years now. And, non-European people have long accused ethnic-Europeans of "racism" if they had difficulty telling people apart within another race.

​Science can explain this very well, it is called the "Cross-Race Effect." And you can read a great overview of it in this article by Real Clear Science. The gist of it is that we are hardwired by nature to recognize our own kind biologically so we, people of all races, have some level of difficulty recognizing differences in other races on occasion.

In this day and age, it is unacceptable to mock another human being for their physical characteristics - except for blondes. 

Even when that characteristic might be down to the person's own actions, such as weight, it is socially unacceptable and considered not only rude but cruel to do so, and rightly so.

Let's just be 100% real for a minute. We have actual statistics that demonstrate that certain ethnic groups consistently score lower on IQ tests and academic achievement exams. Even when socio-economic advantage is adjusted for, the discrepancy still exists.

But, if we all made jokes about these people's biologically demonstrable lower intelligence averages, all hell would break loose.

What we can plainly see is that we live in a society that rewards underachievement.

We live in a society which aims to disenfranchise high achieving individuals.

Worse than that, as the vicious and pervasive blonde bimbo stereotype demonstrates, we have an establishment working to cut down, humiliate, and shame people of certain minority ethnic features.

And if you don't think blondes are a minority in the truest form of the word, then you can't see past the end of your nose. 

​While all Germans today learn Hochdeutsch, the standardized German that we English speakers learn if we study German in school, there is an abundance of variation in language found not only in Germany, but in other German speaking countries, as well as areas that historically had German populations. Dialects can vary so greatly that a Northern German may be unable to understand a Southern German if they are using their own regional dialects such as Plattdeutsch and Bayerisch.

When we look at Italy, we see a huge spread of native language diversity. Whereas the variations in Germany are considered dialects, in Italy we see not only dialectical variation of Italian language, but we see variations in speech that are classified as distinct and separate languages, not merely dialects, s uch as Lombard.

Lombard is a fascinating language because it is a Gallo-Italic language meaning it has heavy influence from Celtic and Germanic language as well as Latin, making it very different than the Italian spoken elsewhere in Italy.

These languages demonstrate the history of Europeans and the unique layering of culture in the European landscape that occurred over the millennia. 

As the accompanying video explains ("Languages of Italy" by LangFocus), these languages had already been under pressure due to urbanization and population movement.

Previous eras in Western history have had catastrophic effects on regional cultural diversity. In addition to language and dialect, the folk beliefs and traditions were also being eroded by the 19th and 20th centuries. The Romantic Era was a reaction to and a reject of Industrialization and Urbanization which was wreaking havoc on European culture. (Please see this article for more on this). 

But, when we look over to Spain and France, we find the Basques, who are unique outliers in both language and culture.

While the German and Italian languages fall in different branches of the language tree, they are both umbrellaed under the Indo-European language family. Therefore, though they may seem very different, they are still related to one another, as are most of the languages and dialects in Europe. 

​The French government, it would seem, should explain to everyone why it hates native French ethno-culture so much. Here we have the Basques, a minority in the truest sense of the word, a tiny ethnic group with a unique language and a genetic footprint that stands apart from the rest of Europe, and France is doing NOTHING to protect them while it imports millions of foreigners who are the majority demographic in terms of world population statistics.

But the same irresponsibility and downright contempt for native European culture can be found in nearby nations as well. 

The United Kingdom is home to many forms of Celtic language as well as dozens of dialects of English, many of which have close roots to the original speech of the first Anglo-Saxons. 

The idea that I have long held about the situation is rather like how George R.R. Martin depicts Brienne of Tarth in the series "A Game of Thrones."

If you follow at least the television series, and if you are reading this then you probably watch the show, then you know that Brienne is distinctly female. Yes, she is taller than any other female in the show and taller than most of the men. She is built strongly. She is not "feminine" but it is clear that she is, indeed, a woman. 

All of the characters, men and women, seem to recognize her as a warrior for her skill, dedication, and aptitude.  It is clear that she is not the "norm" for a woman. Most women are not like her. But, she is not only allowed to do what she does, but she is respected for her skill at it. 

​It seems to me that this is a fair imagining of how an early Middle Ages Northern European worldview (prior to the kind of serious distortions of culture that came with the Judeo-Christian and Greco-Romanization of Northern European societies) experienced regarding the warrior woman.

​By the High Middle Ages, we see the misogynistic delineation that Mediterranean cultural colonization transformed the non-Latin European climate into.

When one looks at the historical record, and takes the cultural sagas, legends, and histories of certain warrior queens into account, we see a very solid representation of the warrior woman within the Northern European landscape. 

Nobody is trying to relate this to modern discussions on social issues, because frankly, modern discussions are asinine. Pitting the average female in combat is ridiculous. Combat is an inherently male adventure. And, to extrapolate from this that liberal view that male and female gender roles are irrelevant is also preposterous.  

What this demonstrates, however, is there are those individuals who stand apart from the norm. And in Northern European society, it was by their SKILL that they were respected. 

Just as battle was a male dominated field, women who were skilled were respected, the Germanic world also believed in magic which was a female dominated field. There were some men who excelled in this field as well. 

​​​My name is Carolyn Emerick, and I write on the history, myth, and folklore of Northwes tern Europe. 

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