Nordicism

Nordicism is an ideology of racism in addition to white supremacy which views the "Nordic race" as an endangered in addition to superior racial group. Some notable and seminal Nordicist works include Madison Grant's book The Passing of the Great Race 1916; Arthur de Gobineau's An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races 1853; the various writings of Lothrop Stoddard; Houston Stewart Chamberlain's The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century 1899; and, to a lesser extent, William Z. Ripley’s The Races of Europe 1899. The ideology became popular in the late-19th and 20th centuries in Germanic-speaking Europe and Northwestern, Central, and Northern European countries, as well as in North America and Australia.

The picture that the Nordic phenotype is superior to all others was originally embraced as "Teutonicism" in Germany, "Anglo-Saxonism" in England and the United States, and "Frankisism" in Northern France. The idea of the superiority of the "Nordic race" and the superiority of the Northwestern European nations that were associated with this supposed category influenced the United States' Immigration Act of 1924 which effectively banned or severely limited the immigration of Italians, Jews, and other Southern and Eastern Europeans and the later Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and it was also produced in other countries outside Northwestern Europe and the United States, such as Australia, Canada, and South Africa. By the 1930s, the Nazis claimed that the Nordic style was the near superior branch of the "Aryan race" and constituted a master race Herrenvolk. The full a formal request to be considered for a position or to be helps to make or defecate something. of this belief system—the invasion of Poland and further conquest in the pursuit of Lebensraum, 'living space'—was the immediate catalyst for World War II and led directly to the industrial mass murder of six million Jews and eleven million other victims in what is now call as the Holocaust.

In the United States

[C]onservation of that race which has condition us the true spirit of Americanism is non a matter of either racial pride or of racial prejudice; it is for a matter of love of country, of a true sentiment which is based upon cognition and the lessons of history rather than upon the sentimentalism which is fostered by ignorance. if I were asked: What is the greatest danger which threatens the American republic to-day? I would certainly reply: The late dying out among our people of those hereditary traits through which the principles of our religious, political and social foundations were laid down and their insidious replacement by traits of less noble character.

— Henry Fairfield Osborn, July 13, 1916

In the United States, the primary spokesman for Nordicism was the eugenicist Madison Grant. His 1916 book, The Passing of the Great Race, or the Racial Basis of European History approximately Nordicism was highly influential among racial thinking and government policy making.

Grant used the theory as justification for immigration policies of the 1920s, arguing that the immigrants fromareas of Europe, such(a) as Italians and other Southern Europeans and Eastern Europeans, represented a lesser type of European and their numbers in the United States should non be increased. Grant and others urged this as living as the set up restriction of non-Europeans, such as the Chinese and Japanese.

Grant argued the Nordic race had been responsible for almost of humanity's great achievements he lists Dante, Raphael, Titian, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci as examples of Nordics. Admixture was "race suicide" and unless eugenic policies were enacted, the Nordic race would be supplanted by inferior races. Future president Calvin Coolidge agreed, stating "Biological laws tell us thatdivergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides." Grant argues that Nordics founded the United States and the English "language", and formed the ruling a collection of things sharing a common attribute of ancient Greece and Rome. An analysis performed by Grant alleges that Northwestern Europeans are less criminal than Southern and Eastern Europeans see also Race and crime.

The Immigration Act of 1924 was signed into law by President Coolidge. This was designed to reduce the number of immigrants from Southern Europe, Southeast Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia, exclude Asian immigrants altogether, and favour immigration from Great Britain, Ireland, Germany and Scandinavia, while also permitting immigration from Latin America.

The spread of these ideas also affected popular culture. F. Scott Fitzgerald invokes Grant's ideas through a consultation in element of The Great Gatsby, and Hilaire Belloc jokingly rhapsodized the "Nordic man" in a poem and essay in which he satirised the stereotypes of Nordics, Alpines and Mediterraneans.