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trom

First of all what is “culture”?

We humans have borders that divide us into tribes. The rules of the division are not always clear. Language? But USA and Australia speak the same language…
Same is the case for South Africa, England, Sudan, Botswana, Nigeria, Singapore, Namibia or Ghana. And some 100 more tribes:

French? Some 50 tribes speak French!

The fact is that there are many tribes that speak the same language yet their cultures can be totally different.

So what makes a “culture” is a soup of traditions, beliefs, religion, food, knowledge, art, clothing style, humor, sport, and so on.

A cluster of values that makes a group of people a bit different from another.

In that sense cultures are not only limited by borders and tribes, but they can form around a topic of interest such as gaming, movies, even celebrities.

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#culture #language #games #movies #english #french

Bernard Marks

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@trom
Culture is downstream from race. This is why all European peoples, be they in US, Australia, or elsewhere have similar cultures. Africans everywhere also have cultures more similar to each other than to Europeans.

Although people may mimic or adopt cultures of another race, they cannot create or improve those cultures. Culture is created amongst a homogeneous population. Some people are capable of producing high culture and civilization from it.

Culture is lost when it is mixed into other cultures. If you take all the colorful crayons in a box and melt them together, you get an ugly grey.

tio

@tio@social.trom.tf remote

@Bernard @Bernard @trom @Bernard There is no other race than the human race. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human

What is so similar between the Russian culture and the Spanish culture? From traditions to language they are very far apart. Or the Chinese culture and the Swedish culture.... Of course if you look deep down all cultures are mixes of other cultures, including the cultures in Africa or South America.

Do you really believe that there are different races of humans? That would be something ha....

Caleb James DeLisle

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz remote

> There is no other race than the human race.

I love this line because it actually runs contrary to Darwin's theory AT IT'S CORE.

In short, Darwin discovered that species undergo random mutations which make the more or less evolutionarily fit, and some flourish while others die out - leading to an "evolution" of the species.

Concretely this means that any given mutation "splits" a species into those which have it and those which don't. If the mutation is eugenic, then those with it compete better, if it's dysgenic then it's the other way.

If the human species is subject to mutations, then it has "splits", which means there are different "groups" (i.e. races). If it's not, then you don't believe in evolution.

naneko

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@cjd @Bernard @tio @trom
Saying humans are all one race completely goes against the branching nature seen in all things. It isn't even just evolution on the species level. As mountains erode, so can the physical components of reproduction be changed, whether current gene theory is even accurate or not. You will end up with branching groups whose differences need to be accounted for one way or another.

To deny this is to deny everything we know about nature on a fundamental level. It would be an absolutely massive and game-changing thing with widespread implications.

Disproving that humans evolved up from single-cell organisms would be much less disruptive than whatever would be needed to explain away the lack of significantly different groups within humanity.

Caleb James DeLisle

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz remote

Yeah, we're just saying the same things in different words.

Anyone who claims to be an Atheist but also believes in "one race, human race" gets their fedora stolen because they are clearly a Catholic.

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naneko

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@cjd @Bernard @tio @trom
Do Catholics specifically deny heredity and branching differences? Humans all being descended from one man and one woman at the beginning of time would not go against significantly different groups of humans existing today.

If it does, then Catholicism is blatant nonsense even by a standard that does not consider magic and talking animals possessed by angels to be inherently silly.

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Caleb James DeLisle

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If I'm not mistaken, they believe that every Human is a unique and special brother who is created by God and has a soul, and is NOT comparable to animals. This belief is the origin of two assumptions which have snuck into ostensibly science based thinking:

1. There is only one race, the human race - obviously bunk for reasons discussed already

2.There's a 30% (or whatever %) chance you would have been born African.

This one is slightly more tricky to debunk, but there are two problems with it: Firstly, if you accept that logic then there's a 99.999% chance you would have been born a speck of bacteria. Secondly, unless you believe in a soul, what is the "you" in that sentence...

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Caleb James DeLisle

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GENERALLY when someone says the "30% chance you would have been born African" and you reply with the "99.999% chance you would have been born a speck of bacteria", they then accidentally say something which reveals that they actually have a presumptive belief that a Human is a magical entity which exists outside of the rest of physical reality...

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naneko

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@cjd @Bernard @tio @trom
Do Catholics not believe in a separate soul, and thus race not existing on the soul level means it cannot exist on the physical? It sounds like Catholics believe in separate souls, but that heredity doesn't exist with each human body being uniquely crafted AND not crafted according to observable heredity. If humans are uniquely crafted, but with similarities to their parents, race exists.

Even if we have separate souls from the physical, if our physical bodies modify the expression of those souls, which would need to be the case to match what we observe, then in terms of this world heredity groups still exist and matter.

From a spiritual perspective that cares about the spirits inhabiting this world, denying race would be evil. It would be like denying the reality of a cripple because his brain is the same, which would do a lot of harm by preventing people from dealing with his situation appropriately.

It is not possible for a spiritualist who loves all souls to deny race and its consequences in this world. His love would prevent doing such an evil act.

Any separate "you" or chance you might have been born an African would be irrelevant.

>Firstly, if you accept that logic then there's a 99.999% chance you would have been born a speck of bacteria.
If bacteria doesn't get same the category of thing that "you" are, then "you" could not be born as one.

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Bernard Marks

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@naneko @cjd @tio @trom

Most Christian sects have this universal equality of souls. The below is interesting to consider:

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴏᴄᴛʀɪɴᴀʟ ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴀᴅɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴꜱ ʙᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇɴ ɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ ꜱᴏᴄɪᴀʟɪꜱᴍ ᴀɴᴅ ᴄʜʀɪꜱᴛɪᴀɴɪᴛʏ

Getting into the philosophical concepts of National Socialism, we can point to two main ideas:

1.) 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥
National Socialist racial theory rejected the Christian separation of body and soul by arguing that the soul is biologically rooted in blood and race. Since Christianity teaches that the soul and salvation are universal and not determined by race, it demonstrates that the two concepts are irreconcilable.

2.) 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐯𝐬 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐢𝐧
National Socialism rejects the Christian idea that human history is centered on universal sin and redemption, instead interpreting history as a biological and racial struggle between competing peoples and racial souls. The NS worldview is based on racial determinism and race-based destiny, not sin based destiny.

Biology is the basis for the National Socialist worldview. When taken to it's fullest extent, National Socialism points to the rejection of everything that is foreign. The first principle of National Socialism comes from the fact that: The Volk is the meaning and purpose of our existence.

Contemporary Third Reich comparisons between the National Socialist worldview and the Christian worldview:
SS training material from the Reich Security Main Office
Training Guide for SS leader candidates in the Sicherheitsdienst