A cool website + book site for Researching
I wanted to share a website that I found a couple of months ago.
I found a book on project Gutenberg. If you don't know what that is, it is a free ebook website. You can download lots of free books from project gutenberg.
When I began looking back at my heritage a little, I began reading some race books from the 20th century. To get a sense of who I am and my possible identity outside of what my family had told me growing up. I always felt a certain pride to who I was as an individual based on the stories that I was told.
I assume I came across the book by chance, or maybe by looking up 'race' in the search bar on Gutenberg. To be honest, most of what it says is unfounded or a bit hard to attach to any stream of logic that I can come up with now knowing what little I do know. It was a book on European races, not really any other races are mentioned in it so far as I can tell. It is called The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history by Grant. The AI for Gutenberg says the book is blatantly "racist". Though, I recognize that the AI is simply trying to word it based on what it was taught was correct and incorrect. The author of the book is simply arguing for less admixture of the European races at the time.
Regardless of what the book says, it was more insightful on the reflections and belief system that (some) people had at the time. One subject that I found quite interesting and had never heard of before- was that it advocated for European races to not mix with each other if the temperaments did not match between the two ethnicities/European races.
So, an Italian man who is hot blooded should not intermix with an English woman. Utterly fascinating if you ask me. It mentioned that it would lead to children that would be "often times, epileptic and schizophrenic" from what I can recall (totally detached from today's logic, if you ask me).
Anyway, someway somehow I got to the other point of my topic. From Project Gutenberg I somehow jumped to Human Phenotypes. I thought it was a cool website because it highlights each human phenotype in the world and the locations where those phenotypes are found typically. It is a good tool to find out just where you are from if you have no starting points or leads based off of your looks. It will even describe those phenotypes. Though I admit, I have no idea what any of the descriptions mean often times.
Generally, our heritage seems to be pretty complex and forgotten as a factor. Rather than forget it, we should each embrace where we come from and learn about our origin and our personal history. I think the subject needs more love as a historical topic. I don't think it is wrong to look back and take pride in who you are.
Is this considered wrongthink? You let me know or don't let me know. I don't care.