Quote Originally Posted by Macilrille View Post
Now, not to be unwelcoming and patronising, but TBH unless you come up with some sources this, especially with phrases such as "Aryan poster boys" thrown in, looks more like the source of unsubstanciated claim and slander of academics I would expect to see on Youtube.

With all due respect, but this place holds pretty high standars as it should (and I take pride in doing my best to both uphold and further them), and AFAIK there is no source for such a claim, nor any need for such phrases.
What statement specifically would you like sourced? Obviously the Cimbri where not "aryan poster boys" and my references as such are clearly tongue and cheek towards the ever popular "völkisch" historian. Would you like me to prove that Celtic culture and history has been suppressed in academic circles for the glorification of other races, ethnicities and cultures?

"SCIENTIFIC" RACISM

Although their empire was acquired by military force and a divide and conquer strategy, the British attributed their success to Anglo-Saxon superiority. This old idea was brought up to date through pseudo-scientific theories of race.

Nineteenth century theorists divided humanity into "races" on the basis of external physical features. These "races" were said to have inherited differences not only of physique, but also of character. These "differnces" allowed the races to be placed in a heirarchy. Needless to say, the Teutons, who included the Anglo-Saxons, were placed at the top. Black people, especially "Hottentots" were at the bottom, with Celts (Irish) and Jews somewhere in between.

Anthropologists went around measuring people's skulls, and assigning them to different "races" on the basis of such factors as how far their jaws protruded. Celts and others were said to have more "primitive" features than Anglo-Saxons.

The physician John Beddoe invented the "index of nigrescence" a formula to identify the racial components of a given people. The Anglo-Saxon's "refined" features also came with a "superior" character. They were said to be industrious, thoughtful, clean, law-abiding and emotionally restrained, while the characters of the various colonized peoples were said to be the very opposite.

In 1850 the anatomist Robert Knox described the Celtic character as "Furious fanaticism; a love of war and disorder; a hatred for order and patient industry; no accumulative habits; restless; treacherous and uncertain: look to Ireland..." He drew the following conclusion:

"As a Saxon, I abhor all dynasties, monarchies and bayonet governments, but this latter seems to be the only one suitable for the Celtic man."

IRISH CHIMPANZEES

In the 1860s, the debate among scientists about the relationship of humans to animals prompted British racists to make frequent comparisons between Irish people, Black people and apes. The Cambridge historian Charles Kingsley wrote to his wife from Ireland in 1860: "I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country...to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black one would not see it so much, but their skins, except where tanned by exposure, are as white as ours." (17.)

In 1862, the British historian Lord Acton wrote:

"The Celts are not among the progressive, initiative races, but among those which supply the materials rather than the impulse of history...The Persians, the Greeks, the Romans and the Teutons are the only makers of history, the only authors of advancement." He concluded: "Subjection to a people of a higher capacity for government is of itself no misfortune; and it is to most countries the condition of their political advancement." (21.)

In 1886 Lord Salisbury opposed Home Rule for Ireland with these words: "You would not confide free representative institutions to the Hottentots, for instance." Self government was only for people of the "Teutonic race."



Over here we have a period ethnic chart comparing the Anglo-Teutonic, Irish-Iberian and Negro races. https://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4696/scientific.gif All of this material and a great deal more can be sourced here http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish/unit_2.html The tome is itself sourced at the bottom. I'm surprised that you expected to see this all on youtube, I might have to check it out some time.