Of all the old anthropological concepts that were abandoned after 1945 the most unjustly condemned was the idea of the "Alpine" race. The basis of the grouping was the fact that in Europe, baldness and brachycephaly invariably occur together, in French, Slavs, and N. Italians.
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And what's even worse is that the distinction is so much more than physical: maybe not in intelligence, but in political attitudes the fundamental European divide is between hard, communitarian, feudalized Alpines and the unbroken, libertarian peoples of the periphery.
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bald occipital government (BOG)
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