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This just seems like a demonstration of the math for ethnocentrism working out. "Ethnic genetic interests" is something we should define
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The most basic version shouldn't be objectionable. You have a genetic interest in your genes. You have the most genetic interest in your
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kids since they share the most DNA. You have a more attenuated genetic interest in more distant relatives, including your racial group.
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Why are we even talking about "genetic interest"? Because biology selects at the DNA level
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So we naturally want selection in favor of our children, and most people have some ethnocentrism for selecting in favor of their group
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He's right. A lot of people on the alt-right believe in group selection and race-based altruism.
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Sorry, I meant that Yeyo is right, not Salter. Salter is probably wrong, but I haven't read the book.
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I suppose that one idea pointed out in the links @BioDeterminist just put in this thread is that ethnocentrism can arise without "altruism"
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Altruism in the sense of reducing one's own personal fitness in favor of others.
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But ethnocentric groups do outcompete non-ethnocentric groups, so it seems to me that we have group selection in that way, even without
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You assume group selection in the wording. I think the historical evidence shows that less tribal societies are more successful.
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The Roman Empire was multi-ethnic. Islam is not racially or ethnically tribal, although it imposes itself on people that are.
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