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La Raza Cósmica
« on: May 08, 2021, 09:22:35 pm »
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La raza cósmica (The Cosmic Race) is an essay written and published in 1925 by Mexican philosopher, secretary of education, and 1929 presidential candidate José Vasconcelos to express the ideology of a future "fifth race" in the Americas; an agglomeration of all the races in the world with no respect to color or number to erect a new civilization: Universópolis.

Claiming that Social Darwinism and racialist ideologies are only created to validate, explain, and justify ethnic superiority and to repress others, Vasconcelos attempts to refute these theories and goes on to recognize his words as being an ideological effort to improve the cultural morale of a "depressed race" by offering his optimistic theory of the future development of a cosmic race.

As he explains in his literary work, armies of people would then go forth around the world professing their knowledge. Vasconcelos continues to say that the people of the Iberian regions of the Americas (that is to say, the parts of the continent colonised by Portugal and Spain) have the territorial, racial, and spiritual factors necessary to initiate the "universal era of humanity".
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The title La raza cósmica embodies the notion that traditional, exclusive concepts of so-called "race" and nationality can be transcended in the name of humanity's common destiny. It originally referred to a movement by Mexican intellectuals during the 1920s who pointed out that so-called "Latin" Americans have the blood of all the world's so-called "races": European, Asian-descended native Americans, and Africans, thereby transcending the peoples of the "Old World".

Vasconcelos also alluded to the term when he coined the National Autonomous University of Mexico's motto: "Por mi raza hablará el espíritu" ('Through my race the spirit will speak').
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_raza_c%C3%B3smica

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Re: La Raza Cósmica
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2022, 05:32:55 pm »
Vasconcelos' vision will only be realized after reproductive Eurocentrism ceases to exist:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/reproductive-decolonization/

which we are not even close to at present. Here is an enemy article on the extent of Eurocentrism in Chile:

https://www.amren.com/news/2022/09/race-and-immigration-in-chile/

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In the 19th century, Chile decisively defeated its two northern neighbors Bolivia and Peru in what is known as the “War of the Pacific.” Chile gained vast swathes of resource-rich land from this conflict, and left Bolivia permanently landlocked. In the same century, Chile finally and decisively defeated the hostile Amerindian nation to their south, the Araucanos (who are sometimes referred to as “Mapuches”), after fighting them on-and-off for centuries. Just as the War of the Pacific has many parallels to America’s war with Mexico, Chile’s southward territorial expansion at the expense of the Amerindians has many parallels to America’s westward expansion.
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According to the CIA, Bolivia is five percent white, 20 percent Amerindian, 68 percent mestizo, one percent black, and 6 percent other or mixed. Peru is 15 percent white, 45 percent Amerindian, 37 percent mestizo, and 3 percent other. Chile is 88.9 percent white, 9.1 percent Araucano Indian, and 2 percent other — almost entirely composed of other much smaller Amerindian nations. Chile, then, is about five times whiter than Peru and 17 times whiter than Bolivia.
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The elite is pure or nearly pure white, while the destitute and indigent are pure or nearly pure Amerindian. The middle class is somewhere in between. The upper middle class is on the whiter side of in between, and so on.
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The American scholar of race Lothrop Stoddard praised the whiteness of Chile’s upper classes in his work The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy (1921). He is worth quoting at length:

    This ruling gentry jealously guarded its racial integrity. In fact, it possessed not merely a white but a Nordic race-consciousness. The Chilean gentry called themselves sons of the Visigoths . . .

    Furthermore, Chile was receiving fresh accessions of Nordic blood. Many English, Scotch, and Irish gentleman-adventurers, taking part in the War of Independence, settled down in a land so reminiscent of their own. Germans also came in considerable numbers, settling especially in the colder south. Thus the Chilean upper classes, always pure white, became steadily more Nordic in ethnic character. The political and social results were unmistakable. Chile rapidly evolved a stable society, essentially oligarchic and consciously patterned on aristocratic England.

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Like the United States and neighboring Argentina, throughout the 19th century, especially the second half, and into the 20th, Chile was the destination for a wide variety of European settlers and immigrants. The largest nationalities represented were: French, British, Irish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Croatian, Dutch, Russian, Greek, Austrian, Belgian, Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardic Jewish, Swiss, Polish, Hungarian, and of course, Spanish.
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The northern quarter of the country is entirely defined by the immense mines there. The laborers and roughnecks of these mines have always been distinctly swarthy, while the owners, managers, and engineers have always been largely of the old Iberian aristocracy and enterprising Germans and Croatians (when not foreign, and then predominantly American and British). For example, the copper mining company, Antofagasta PLC, is run by the Luksić family, of Croatian heritage. When Andrónico Luksić Abaroa died in 2005, Forbes put his net worth at 4.2 billion dollars, making him the richest man in Chile and the 132nd richest man in the world. At the time of this writing, his widow Iris Fontbona is estimated by Forbes to be worth 16.4 billion dollars, making her the richest Chilean, and the 80th richest person in the world. Chile punches well above its weight when it comes to billionaires, with a current total of 11. All of them are very evidently of majority European, Jewish, and/or Middle Eastern heritage. Six made their fortunes predominantly in the fields of mining, forestry, and/or paper. Whereas the first industry is controlled by whites and runs on northern Amerindian and mestizo labor, the last two are controlled by whites and run on Araucano labor.
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Tensions between white and non-white workers got violent as well. In the early 20th century white workers banded together informally in what were called “anti-Peruvian leagues,” that engaged in street and workplace violence and intimidation against darker-skinned rivals.
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Chileans have a strong sense of race just beneath the surface. The connection between race and class, with whites dominating the upper classes and mestizos dominating the lower classes, is understood and largely accepted by nearly every Chilean. The best evidence of this comes from egalitarian whining. One blogger has a neat summary of the typical conversation about race between Americans and Chileans:

    Chilean person: There are real race issues in the [United] States.

    Me: Yes, there are huge problems. But I think race is a problem here.

    Chilean: No, we don’t have race issues here. We do have issues with class.

    Me: What do you mean.

    Chilean: Well, people of lower class are really looked down upon.

    Me: How can you tell who these people are?

    Chilean: You just can.

    Me: (finding a darker skinned Chilean in the crowd) What about that person … over there … what class are they?

    Chilean: They are lower class.


The whiter the Chilean, the more proud and protective they are of their whiteness. Marriages between different economic classes are uncommon, and this protects the European stock of the upper classes. Demonstrating this empirically is difficult, but the signs are very clear. Another leftist blogger noted in 2015 that:

    A few years ago there was a study in Chile that consisted [of] presenting ten images of people with different skin colors and asking people to identify the subjects as Chileans or not. There was a tendency [of] identifying light skinned subjects as Chileans and darker skinned ones as Mapuches [Araucanos] (a Chilean indigenous group), Peruvians, or “foreigners.”
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When polled, at least a third of Chileans have openly race realist views, and all polls about racial matters under-represent how many people hold “racist” opinions because many people are unwilling to admit them to a pollster. In this United States this is called the “Bradley effect.” Here are some results from a 2003 poll of Chileans about Peruvians, the largest and most historically salient non-white immigrant group.

    Chile is more developed than its neighboring countries because it has less indigenous population. (agree 34.1 percent, disagree 65.9 percent)
    The problem of opening up to the Latin American immigration is that many of them (Latin American immigrants) are indigenous. (agree 35.8 percent, disagree 64.2 percent)
    Some races are better than others” (agree 32.9 percent, disagree 67.1 percent)
    If Peruvians get too mixed with Chileans the quality of our people will worsen (agree 33.4 percent, disagree 66.6 percent)
    Peruvian immigrants that come to our country are more likely to commit crimes (agree 43.8 percent, disagree 56.2 percent)

Chile now even has an identitarian movement, called Identitarian Action Chile, clearly modeled after those in Western Europe and the United States. Their symbol is El Torreón, an 18th century fort built to defend the southern city of Valdivia (named for Pedro de Valdivia, the conquistador) against the Araucanos. Though still small, the group appears to be growing. It holds regular marches, demonstrations, and leafleting campaigns against immigration and for a Chile-first economy.
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The north and northeastern border should be militarized: more walls, more patrols, more checkpoints, and more soldiers.
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Chile should round up illegal immigrants and deport them, as the Israelis do.

Immigration from white and whitish countries should get preference, under one guise or another.
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Chinese immigration should also be halted

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/jose-antonio-kast/

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/identitarian-movement/

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Re: La Raza Cósmica
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2023, 04:48:42 pm »
Our enemies on Eurocentrism in Brazil:

https://www.amren.com/news/2023/01/race-in-another-america-brazil-edward-telles/

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Brazilian history is, indeed, very different from US history. The Portuguese came without women and brought about seven times as many black slaves as were imported to the United States.  Slavery was not ended until 1888.

Because there were so many blacks in Brazil, in the 1880s the government actively recruited white immigrants. This led to a literal “whitening” of the country, and whites argued that sustained miscegenation would improve the black racial stock.  This notion of improvement-through-whitening remained in force for at least a century and is still commonly believed, much to Prof. Telles’s dismay.
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From 1940 to 2000, European immigration decreased, and the percentage of whites fell from 64 percent to 54 percent. Mulattos increased from 21 percent to 43 percent, and blacks declined from 15 to 5 percent. Clearly there was miscegenation by whites, but mostly by the bottom fifth of the socio-economic scale, and mostly with mulattos rather than blacks.

With more whites of both sexes available for marriage, whites in the middle-class and higher turned their backs on miscegenation, leading to a de facto color line.
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In 1988 — 100 years after emancipation — a new constitution proclaimed an era of racial equality by making “the practice of racism . . . subject to imprisonment,” and laid the groundwork for hundreds of local anti-discrimination laws.

These laws, however, are rarely enforced; Prof. Telles cites only three cases in 10 years. This appears to be the Brazilian way: lots of laws and much talk, but little or no enforcement.
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in 1960, an American white man was three times more likely to have a “professional” job than a black man but that by 1996, the differential had dropped to 1.6. For women, the white advantage declined from 2.8 to 1.4.  American racism is therefore held under tenuous control through race preferences and quotas.

In Brazil, Prof. Telles tells us, the gap between whites and blacks-and-mulattos has increased. He says this is due to a racial hierarchy devised and enforced by whites for their own benefit: “Race relations depend on how persons are categorized, a process in which more powerful persons ascribe and impose categories on others.” Many non-whites have internalized this hierarchy and use color to navigate Brazil’s racial labyrinth.
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Prof. Telles describes a system of exchange in which status, money, and skin color are all carefully evaluated in the marriage market, with very little left of the romance of the racial-rainbow utopia.  Everyone wants to marry light-skinned women, and Prof. Telles depicts painful scenes of the blackest of women who are left on the shelf.

There appears to be as much racial hypocrisy in Brazil as in the United States, with whites telling pollsters they have integrationist beliefs, but acting differently. The issue of implicit versus explicit racism is the same in both countries.

Despite the myth of the mulatto nation, the Brazilian reality is that blacks are at the bottom with whites at the top.
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Police have long been accused of simply shooting down black and mulatto street urchins.
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Prof. Telles complains that “while nineteenth century scientific theories of white supremacy have since become discredited, such ideas remain deeply embedded in social thinking in Brazil.”

Related:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/argentina/
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Re: La Raza Cósmica
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2023, 06:32:15 pm »


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Great video. I learn so much. Thank you. It's such an insidious sickness that is imbedded in Latin America. It's very similar for indigenous people. They are seen as less and even people that look indigenous deny their own roots. It's very sad. I even see it in my family and its a big topic of fights between the younger and older generation.

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That "bettering of the race" by Whitening the ppl is still practiced today.  I saw a TikTok video a few months back where this Afro-Hispanic mother and daughter were playing with a doll.  While the mother was trying to give her BLACK baby a doll that looked like her, the grandmother was trying to throw it away saying it's ugly, all the while trying to give her a blonde hair White doll.

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My grandmother refused to believe our 23 and me report which showed we were 5.4% West African and 5.8% North African. She and a lot of people of her generation see "darkness" as bad even though she herself is "prieta." She always insisted on "mejorar la raza..." which is a tragic sentiment shared by far too many Latinos.

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I'm Puerto Rican and this couldn't be more than true in my family. There's racism in our families too. Too dark, or hair too curly or coilly and they will let you know too.

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I am at the end of my 90 day stay in Argentina and it has been an eye-opener.  For the most part, people here have been friendly or neutral.  But as a 55 year old, wealthy black American, I dealt with being ignored by mestizo servers at a restaurant, being called a "Caco (street thug)" by a white, young man in the street, and being aggressively stared at by a mestizo middle aged woman who did not approve that I was shopping with a young, white woman.

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I got in trouble during a family training class when I asked my Argentinian teacher who was clearly Mesitza what happened to Native and Black population of the country. She totally ignored my question, even though her specialty was familial and generational trauma.

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I'm Colombian and only until  I grew up to a middle age I realised how " normalised" racism is to the point where people even said " I'm not racist,  but I don't like black people" (yes, someone said that to my face and they even felt offended when I told them that was the definition racism, lol).. Honestly,  there is sooo much work ahead still to do to clean our cultures from racism...

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I'm Panamanian. One of the most celebrated presidents of our history, Arnulfo Arias Madrid, once wrote an article praising and advocating for eugenics, as well as a list of ethnic groups that he explicitly deemed as "undesirable". He also tried to pass a law to strip Asian-Panamanians from their citizenship.

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He also didn’t want the blacks of West Indian descent to have Panamanian citizenship either.

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As a Mexican, there is a lot of racism in my country against darker-skinned people. Over here it's often considered negative to be darker skinned, and most darker skinned people are portrayed as poor, ignorant, criminals, etc. The word "prieto" is often used to refer to darker skinned people, and I notice that in our media, such as movies, novelas, tv shows, advertisements, etc., most mexicans are portrayed as white, no matter the region. Mexico has a lot of genetic and cultural diversity, so it is true that a lot of Northern Mexicans are white, but this is not true in the south and most of Central Mexico. People from Chiapas, Oaxaca,  Michoacan, Yucatan, and southern states are made fun of, and "Chiapaneco", "Oaxaco", are used as insults, due to southern states being portrayed as poor. I've also noticed in latin-american online communities, being darker-skinned is negative. Peruvians are often made fun of for being dark-skinned and "ugly", and there's a lot of racism.

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All brought to you by the Caucasian spanish colonizers

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The deep hatred for our people and melanated skin has brought sadness in me since I was a child. To think there are individuals who would rather despise you for being born different and not the colonizer is baffling.

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The white man has taken everything via violence/force. Haiti understood that

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Power is taken it is never given by those who have it.

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and the power house of Europeans is in Europe. Time to make that trip also.
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Re: La Raza Cósmica
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2023, 05:35:25 pm »
It's Spain and Portugal's fault for ingraining this psychological disease in the minds of the people of south and central America.
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Re: La Raza Cósmica
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2023, 07:54:21 pm »
Cuba was no better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanqueamiento#Cuba

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At the beginning of the 20th century, the Cuban government created immigration laws that invested more than $1 million into recruiting Europeans into Cuba to whiten the state.[14] High participation of blacks in independence movements threatened white elitist power and when the 1899 census showed that more than 1⁄3 of Cuba's population was colored, white migration started to gain support.[15] Political blanqueamiento began in 1902 after the U.S. occupation, where migration of "undesirables" (i.e. blacks) became prohibited in Cuba.[16] Immigration policies supported the migration of entire families. Between 1902 and 1907, nearly 128,000 Spaniards entered Cuba, and officially in 1906, Cuba created its immigration law that funded white migrants.[16]
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Re: La Raza Cósmica
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2023, 01:14:30 am »
Have 2 Castro brothers or the current one, Díaz-Canel, already repealed the law?

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Re: La Raza Cósmica
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2023, 05:47:07 pm »
Why did the Third Reich leadership flee to South America after WWII? Knowing South America's racism, that just makes them look bad!
National Socialism ≠ Nazism

Aryan ≠ 'White'.

Race = Quality && Race ≠ Ethnicity.

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« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2023, 06:53:29 pm »
Paraguay at least tried:

https://theconversation.com/from-paraguay-a-history-lesson-on-racial-equality-68655

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There’s one unusual and controversial moment that, I hope, may prove enlightening: the time Paraguay made it illegal for some people to marry within their race.
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In 1814, Francia issued a decree forbidding marriages between “European men” (namely, Spaniards) and women “known as Spanish” (born in Spain or of Spanish descent). European men would only be allowed to marry indigenous, mixed-race or black Paraguayan women.

By preventing the white elite from reproducing, Francia’s decree had the undeniable potential to allow the newly independent Paraguay to rise as a mixed-race nation.
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Intent aside, the 1814 decree did cause the extinction of Spanish Europeans as an ethnic group in Paraguay.

In that effort, Francia was building on Paraguayan initiatives to eliminate racial difference that already dated back to colonial times. Because virtually no European women accompanied the Spanish conquistadors and settlers who arrived in Paraguay from 1540 to 1550, all took native Guaraní women as wives.
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Thus in Paraguay’s early period, there had long been a considerable degree of racial equality, especially compared to neighbours such as Brazil or the then-United Provinces (Argentina).

But of course this did not work out, because while the conquistador bloodlines were not allowed to remain "white", they were allowed to perpetuate. Thus so did their attitude of "white" supremacy:

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Mestizo but not post-racial

But equality only held for the mestizo ruling classes. Spanish law never allowed members of the mestizo majority to marry minority black or mixed-race Afrodescendant people, though they could occasionally wed indigenous people.

As a result, a significant divide was maintained between the ruling mestizo elite and minority populations of black, mixed-race Afrodescendant and some nomadic or un-assimilated indigenous tribes.
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after Francia’s reign, oligarchic governments and military dictatorships introduced new forms of racism and intolerance to Paraguay. Today, indigenous peoples still suffer discrimination.

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the decree very cleverly seeks to enshrine the rule of the “whitest” part of the population that was not entirely “white” while excluding those even “whiter”.

What Francia should have done was prohibit the conquistadors from reproducing with anyone at all, thus eliminating their bloodlines.