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| black man | Dec 22 2007, 01:13 AM |
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People get their stereotypes from 20th century anthropological works by people like von Eickstedt and Coon. The latter collected a couple of samples in one or two regions of a continent plus a couple of rumours and wrote that altogether into their possibly still relatively popular works. AFAIK, von Eickstedt only visited southern China, from where he had a Yunnanese Han sample, which he might have used for his definition of a long-faced "Nordsinid" (northern Chinese) type since the ancestors of Yunnanese are partly from Henan. Because von Eickstedt seemed to believe in a correlation between phenoptypes and cultures, I suppose that he concluded that long-faced East Asians would be automatically "warlike" and vice versa. Now, unlike many southern Han local populations, northern Han, Koreans and Japanese happen to be famous for warrior traditions. This might have been the "reason" for which von Eickstedt associated them all with long-faced "Nordsinids". Ironically, von Eickstedt even seems to have acknowledged that e.g. Shandong Han and southern Koreans aren't long-faced on average. In fact, he also associated them with SE Asians. But in those circles which still read von Eickstedt's works there are many people with fascistoid ideological backgrounds who only remember text passages where "warrior races" are artificially constructed by authors of outdated books. That is how I'd explain the strange statements one occasionally finds in the internet. Worth mentioning is also that von Eickstedt emphasised a "Nordsinid" component in northern Koreans. Yet, Shirokogorov, who published his work before von Eickstedt, reported an average facial height of only 117mm for northern Koreans. 117mm are less than the "southern" average facial heights from von Eickstedt's own e.g. Vietnamese samples. A later study of Chinese Koreans confirmed an intermediate average facial height of 120mm, also not far from von Eickstedt's average Vietnamese facial heights. Sure, there is also the large pooled sample of North Koreans from several Japanese researchers which implies relatively high faces. But the according studies were from a time in which the measurement of facial heights by Japanese anthropologists might have depended on even more variable standards than today. Summing up some results of earlier Japanese studies, Kouichi Makiko in the end of the 20th century abstained from mentioning the values in a book because many of them were in her opinion too high. |
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