User talk:Djaiello

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Afrocentrism

Hi,

The line in question was not written by me, and I certainly would not endorse it. Though it's not completely inaccurate, it is rather misleading. It says that mainstream scholarship at the time was "wrestling" with claims of Nordic leadership in Egypt. Well I guess that depends on what date is being referred to; what may be said to count as mainstream scholarship and what "wrestling with" is supposed to imply. There was certainly the phenomenon of Nordicism in the period from the 1880s through to the 30s, which did indeed argue that Nordic peoples had natural powers of leadership and that they had become the upper classes in ancient classical civilizations. I don't think there was ever more than a small minority, however, who argued that Nordic people had been rulers in ancient Egypt. More generally Egypt was argued at this period to be a broadly "Semitic" civilization, and indeed a number of 19th century writers - like James Fergusson for example - emphasised its Africanness. Still, the neo-Nazi website March of the Titans does try to this day to claim that the great pharaohs were Nordic! I don't think that view has ever been mainstream amongst western scholars - except maybe in Nazi Germany. Paul B 13:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]