“Beauty and strength, strength and beauty.” As one scholar wrote, these were what early American philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson considered as commonplace English or Anglo-Saxon characteristics. Freedom and liberty are also thought to be not just a value system for Anglo-Saxons, but an impulse or an instinct. But as the revisionist scholar wrote: … Continue reading English Traits
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On Anglo-Saxonism
Anglo-Saxons also realized that the only way by which Anglo-Saxonism could survive is if it expanded and spread throughout the world. The expansion and spread of Anglo-Saxonism within the structural context of globalization and technology came to be known as “imperialism.” To borrow from one scholar: “Politically, the process of globalization was synonymous with what … Continue reading On Anglo-Saxonism
An Unfashionably Racist World View
Central and essential to the cognitive, mental, psychological, and social dispositions of the American ruling class is “Anglo-Saxonism.” To borrow from one scholar: “In the structure of American race thinking, Anglo-Saxonism – the belief that Americans and the British were one people united by uncommon qualities and common interests – occupied a central position.” It … Continue reading An Unfashionably Racist World View
Adam A. Azim 