'Frnakly, what surprises is the extent to which many countries think they are, and want to be, Nordic. Lingering nineteenth century racial thought. Three wrong conceptions are at work: There is a racial hierarchy. Whites are superior. The most white are the Scandinavians.
Hence the thought that 'the more Scandinavian, the better'.
It did have the result that peoples vastly overrated and overrate their Germanic component. Peculiarly, one needs only a quick glance at the English or the Germans to see that they are only passingly reminiscent of the Nordics.
(not though that physical resemblence is the final word in genetic kinship)
The English resemble the Basques more closely than they do the Danes. The Germans are clearly a central European mishmash.
I won't even mention the blistering stupidity of Austrian 'Magyar-Jewish-Slavic-Celtic' loudmouths starting a racial campaign against the 'inferior' Baltics - who, being Baltic, really are closely related to Scandinavians.
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