07 Jan 2023 At Any Cost

Terms

race
nation
ethnicity

ethnic



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So, as ever on the right, there has been a great deal of discussion over the issues of race, ethnicity, nation, nationalism, and related matters.

And so I want to go over these issues to make sure that people understand what is actually being said when these terms are used, what is sometimes not being said, what is being deliberately misstated, etc.

And so it is important to go over exactly what these terms truly mean, so that you know when someone uses them to mean something else, he is attempting to deceive you.

And so, of course, we start with race.

The second sense of the word race, the first, of course, just meaning running, is a group of people descended from a common ancestor or a class of persons allied by common ancestry.

Those two things, of course, mean the same thing.

It came to us through French, and earlier, most likely, through Italian, ultimately from Latin, the Latin being radix, root.

Now, some modern etymologists and linguists will attempt to say that it did not come from radix, that it has no connection to that.

I would hope most of you can see through that for what it is.

It's an attempt at deception.

It is an attempt to deny the connection here.

What does the term mean?

It means people of a common stock.

Well, what does that mean?

People of a common root, people with a common ancestor.

And so that is what race means.

It means people of the same blood.

But what is a nation?

Well, nation comes from us, ultimately, from Proto-Indo-European, the root being gene, which means give birth or beget.

Now, some may be wondering, how do we get from gene to nation?

Because those words are rather different.

It's true.

They are different in form, but it really takes two steps to see how we get from gene to nation.

And so it comes to us through Latin, before that, from Old Latin.

Old Latin would be gnasci, and that is be born, G-N-A-S-C-I. It drops the G in Latin, becomes gnasci, be born, also natus, nationem, all of these words related to birth.

And so, of course, you can see the connection there, because if you are related to someone by blood, ultimately that means birth.

That is the only way you can be related to someone by blood, is by birth, ultimately.

And so, nation and race are very closely related terms.

They are not identical terms, and they are not identical for this reason.

Race refers specifically to the people of common ancestry, those of the same blood.

Nation, in English, refers to those of common blood living in a certain territory.

And so it is both of those things.

Nation is blood and soil.

So nation is race plus territory.

That is the actual meaning of nation.

And so, for instance, those who will argue that you have a nation made up of different groups are just making an incoherent argument.

That is not a nation, because a nation, definitionally, is a race, a group of common blood, plus a territory, soil.

And so a bunch of groups living together in a common territory, who do not share blood, is not a nation.

That is a bizarre or a civil war, is what that is.

There is another term that is worth mentioning.

I mentioned it in the opening, as it were.

And that is ethnicity.

Ethnicity means the same thing as race.

This is just coming to us from Greek instead of from Latin.

This is particularly salient to Christians, because some of you will already have recognized the Greek word underlying ethnicity, because it's very similar.

It is ethnos, ethne in the plural.

Ethnos just means nation, or race, or people.

Hence, ethnicity and race are, again, identical.

In the Septuagint, which is to say the Greek translation of the Old Testament, this is translating goi or goyim, which is Hebrew for nation or race.

I would hope you are seeing a theme here.

And so when someone speaks to you about ethnicity, and tries t