Just as unfamiliar food may upset a man's stomach, so unfamiliar notions and manners may upset a man's mind.

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/johann-herders-nationalist-doctrine-and-his-cautionary-tale-of-the-jews/

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A nation without a strong State and a secure homeland is,  Herder tells us, doomed to disappear or be mangled like the Jews.

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/johann-herders-nationalist-doctrine-and-his-cautionary-tale-of-the-jews/

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A national survey conducted by the Medical University of South Carolina in 2007 found that more than 12 percent of college women had been raped, not just sexually assaulted, which is about the same percentage of women in the one-in-five study who said they were raped.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/critics-advocates-alike-doubt-oft-cited-1-5-campus-sexual-assault-stat

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Stephen Leslie and colleagues' genetic map of the UK, based on DNA from Brits with four grandparents from a particular area, closely resembles the 2017 electoral map—and many others before and since.

https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/ethnic-tribalism-in-politics

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His "Die Aelteste Urkunde des Menschengeschlechts" (Riga, 1774-76)  develops the idea that the oldest Biblical poems—the history of  Creation, of the Flood, and of Moses—are to be considered Oriental  national songs.

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7586-herder-johann-gottfried-von

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French national identity was created by incorporating diverse tribes into France, and making them all speak French - in Brittany, for instance, local Celtic names were banned.

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1784herder-mankind.asp

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In the US, the Censorship Industrial Complex is funded by billions of taxpayer dollars.

https://censorshipindustrialcomplex.org/

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This is a prediction of the intensity and location of the aurora borealis tonight and tomorrow night over North America. It also shows a 'viewline' that represents the southern-most locations from which you may see the aurora on the northern horizon.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-viewline-tonight-and-tomorrow-night-experimental

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What is the supreme law which we note in all great historical events? In my opinion, it is this: that, in every part of our earth, all possible development is determined in part by the position and the necessities of the locality, in part by circumstances and the opportunities of the age, and in part by the inborn and self-nourishing character of the peoples.... All events in the human sphere, like all productions of nature, are decreed solely by time, locality, and national character, in short by the coordination of all the forces of life in their most positive individuality.

Active human powers are the springs of human history, and, as man originates from and in one race, so his body, education, and mode of thinking are genetic. Hence that striking national character, which, deeply imprinted on the most ancient peoples, is unequivocally displayed in all their operations on the earth. As the mineral water derives its component parts, its operative power, and its flavor from the soil through which it flows, so the ancient character of peoples arose from the family features, the climate, the way of life and education, the early actions and employments, that were peculiar to them. The manners of the fathers took deep root and became the internal prototype of the descendants. The mode of thinking of the Jews, which is best known to us from their writings and actions, may serve as an example: both in the land of their fathers and in the midst of other nations they remain as they were, and even when mixed with other peoples they may be distinguished for some generations onward. It was and is the same with all other peoples of antiquity---Egyptians, Chinese, Arabs, Hindus, etc. The more secluded they lived, nay frequently the more they were oppressed, the more their character was confirmed, so that, if every one of these nations had remained in its place, the earth might have been regarded as a garden where in one plot one human national plant, in another, another, bloomed in its proper form and nature, where in this corner one kind of national animal, in that, another, pursued its course according to its instincts and character....

Has a people anything dearer than the speech of its fathers? In its speech resides its whole thought-domain, its tradition, history, religion, and basis of life, all its heart and soul. To deprive a people of its speech is to deprive it of its one eternal good.... As God tolerates all the different languages in the world, so also should a ruler not only tolerate but honor the various languages of his peoples.... The best culture of a people cannot be expressed through a foreign language; it thrives on the soil of a nation most beautifully, and, I may say, it thrives only by means of the nation's inherited and inheritable dialect. With language is created the heart of a people; and is it not a high concern, amongst so many peoples---Hungarians, Slavs, Rumanians, etc.---to plant seeds of well-being for the far future and in the way that is dearest and most appropriate to them? . . .

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1784herder-mankind.asp