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86-555: The Asatru Folk Assembly ( AFA ) is a white nationalist international Ásatrú organization, founded by Stephen A. McNallen in 1994. Many of the assembly's doctrines, heavily criticized by most heathens , are based on ethnicity , an approach it calls " folkish ". Once headquartered in Grass Valley, California , with chapters worldwide, the AFA is recognized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization. The AFA's roots are in
172-615: A 4 January 1848 speech to the Senate regarding the issue of whether or not to annex the entirety of Mexico after the Mexican-American war , John C. Calhoun of South Carolina said, "I know further, sir, that we have never dreamt of incorporating into our Union any but the Caucasian race—the free white race. To incorporate Mexico, would be the very first instance of the kind of incorporating an Indian race; for more than half of
258-559: A Chinese is proud of his yellow skin, a Japanese of his brown skin, and the Indians of their various hues from black to coffee-coloured. Anybody who is not proud of his race is not a man at all. And any man who tries to stigmatize the Australian community as racist because they want to preserve this country for the white race is doing our nation great harm ... I reject, in conscience, the idea that Australia should or ever can become
344-621: A European ancestor; they were allowed to approach, but not touch, the coffin holding the Kennewick Man. Later testing showed that Kennewick Man is "very closely related to the Colville " tribe in northeast Washington. In May 2017, Facebook deleted the AFA's primary social media outlet, citing hate speech as the reason. In 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center added the AFA to its list of hate groups as part of
430-468: A communal project with room for agriculture and religious worship. But it never held legal title to the land. Upon promises that the land would be donated, some AFA members built a simple hof there, after which the land's owner chose not to donate it. In the late 1990s, the AFA got involved in a protracted fight over the remains of the Kennewick Man : members claimed that these were the remains of
516-532: A document refuting these beliefs and the characterization that they represented these faiths. The product was Declaration 127, which specifically condemns the AFA. This declaration has been criticized for its specific focus on the AFA, and efforts have been made to expand it. One alternative to Declaration 127 is the "Declaration of Deeds", a much wider-ranging statement against discrimination and hate in Heathenism. White nationalism White nationalism
602-877: A few have national anarchist tendencies. One example is the neo-tribalist paganism promoted by Else Christensen 's Odinist Fellowship. Especially notable is the prevalence of devotional forms and esoteric themes, so these subcultures often have the character of new religious movements . Included under the same umbrella by Goodrick-Clarke are movements ranging from conservative revolutionary schools of thought ( Nouvelle Droite , European New Right , Evolian Traditionalism ) to white supremacist and white separatist interpretations of Christianity and paganism ( Christian Identity , Creativity , Nordic racial paganism ) to neo-Nazi subcultures ( Esoteric Hitlerism , Nazi Satanism , National Socialist black metal ). Stephen Flowers Stephen Edred Flowers , commonly known as Stephen E. Flowers or his pen name Edred Thorsson ,
688-746: A former counterterrorism expert at the Department of Homeland Security , the term was used to appear more credible while also avoiding negative stereotypes about white supremacists. Modern members of racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan generally favor the term and avoid self-describing as white supremacist. Some sociologists have used white nationalism as an umbrella term for a range of white supremacist groups and ideologies, while others regard these movements as distinct. Analysis suggests that two groups largely overlap in terms of membership, ideology, and goals. Civil rights groups have described
774-401: A large tract of land, thirteen miles (19 km) from the city center, known as Meadowlands (that the government had purchased in 1953). Meadowlands became part of a new planned Black city called Soweto . The Sophiatown slum was destroyed by bulldozers, and a new White suburb named Triomf (Triumph) was built in its place. This pattern of forced removal and destruction was to repeat itself over
860-594: A multi-racial society and survive. He was the last leader of either the Labour or Liberal party to support it. The Parliament of Canada passed the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 to bar all Chinese from coming to Canada with the exception of diplomats, students, and those granted special permission by the Minister of Immigration. Chinese immigration to Canada had already been heavily regulated by
946-477: A new category called "neo- Völkisch ". The Anti-Defamation League lists the AFA as an "extremist group". In December 2019, two members of the Army National Guard left the military under uncertain terms related to their involvement as leaders of "Ravensblood Kindred", a white nationalist religious group that shared ties with the AFA. Both had previously attended a rally by Richard B. Spencer . One
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#17327756426601032-447: A reaction to a perceived decline in the essence of American identity as European, Anglo-Protestant and English-speaking. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 had opened entry to the US to immigrants other than traditional Northern European and Germanic groups , and as a result it would significantly, and unintentionally, alter the demographic mix in the US. The slogan "white power"
1118-410: A variety of religious and non-religious beliefs, including various denominations of Christianity , generally Protestant , although some specifically overlap with white nationalist ideology ( Christian Identity , for example, is a family of white supremacist denominations), Germanic neopaganism (e.g. Wotanism ) and atheism . Most white nationalists define white people in a restricted way. In
1204-614: A wide variety of mutually influencing groups of a radically ethnocentric character which have emerged, especially in the English-speaking world , since World War II . These loose networks use a variety of mystical, occult or religious approaches in a defensive affirmation of white identity against modernity , liberalism , immigration , multiracialism , and multiculturalism . Some are neo-fascist , neo-Nazi or Third Positionist ; others are politicised around some form of white ethnic nationalism or identity politics , and
1290-744: Is a type of racial nationalism or pan-nationalism which espouses the belief that white people are a race and seeks to develop and maintain a white racial and national identity . Many of its proponents identify with the concept of a white ethnostate . White nationalists say they seek to ensure the survival of the white race and the cultures of historically white states . They hold that white people should maintain their majority in majority-white countries, maintain their political and economic dominance, and that their cultures should be foremost in these countries. Many white nationalists believe that miscegenation , multiculturalism , immigration of nonwhites and low birth rates among whites are threatening
1376-552: Is an American runologist , university lecturer, and proponent of occultism , especially of Neo- Germanic paganism and Odinism . He helped establish the Germanic Neopagan movement in North America and has also been active in left-hand path occult organizations. He has over three dozen published books and hundreds of published papers and translations on a disparate range of subjects. Flowers has worked to promote
1462-599: Is named Baldrshof, in dedication to the god Baldr . In 2022, the AFA purchased a former church in White Springs, Florida , to serve as a hof for AFA members in the Southern United States . The AFA operates a monthly food pantry for the local community there. This fourth hof has been named Njordshof, in dedication to the god Njörðr . As a result of the discriminatory activities of the AFA, numerous Heathen and neo-pagan organizations sought to produce
1548-616: Is named Thorshof, in dedication to the god Thor . In June 2020, the AFA purchased a former Lutheran church in Murdock, Minnesota , to be used as gathering place for AFA members of the Northern Great Plains . In December 2020, the Murdock City Council gave the AFA conditional approval to use the church. More than 120,000 Minnesotans have signed a petition to stop the group's use of the building. This third hof
1634-512: Is often called a 'white' New Zealand." One case of a well known opponent of non-European immigration to New Zealand is that of white supremacist Lionel Terry who, after traveling widely to South Africa, British Columbia and finally New Zealand and publishing a book highly critical of capitalism and Asian immigration, shot and killed an elderly Chinese immigrant in Wellington . Terry was convicted of murder in 1905 and sentenced to death, but
1720-709: The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision that free blacks descended from slaves could not hold United States citizenship even if they had been born in the country. Major changes to this racial requirement for US citizenship did not occur until the years following the American Civil War . In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed to grant birthright citizenship to black people born in
1806-577: The Boer War still constituting a political factor for sections of the white populace. Once South Africa's status as a republic was attained, Hendrik Verwoerd called for improved relations and greater accord between the two groups. He claimed that the only difference now was between those who supported apartheid and those who stood in opposition to it. The ethnic divide would no longer be between white Afrikaans-speakers and English-speakers, but rather White and Black South Africans. Most Afrikaners supported
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#17327756426601892-650: The Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 which required Chinese immigrants to pay a fifty dollar fee to enter the country (the fee was increased to one hundred dollars in 1900 and to five hundred dollars in 1903). Groups such as the Asiatic Exclusion League , which had formed in Vancouver , British Columbia , on 12 August 1907 under the auspices of the Trades and Labour Council, pressured Parliament to halt Asian immigration. The Exclusion League's stated aim
1978-496: The Dominion of New Zealand by requiring all potential immigrants not of British or Irish parentage to apply in writing for a permit to enter the country. The Minister of Customs had the discretion to determine whether any applicant was "suitable". Prime Minister William Massey asserted that the act was "the result of a deep seated sentiment on the part of a huge majority of the people of this country that this Dominion shall be what
2064-622: The European New Right . Flowers has established or been associated with the publishing companies named Rûna-Raven Press (c. 1993-2015), Lodestar Books (c. 2011-2019), and Arcana Europa Media (c. 2020-present). As Thorsson, he has been published by Arktos . In the Spring of 1995, due to inner turmoil, Flowers withdrew from any involvement with the Ring of Troth. In August 1995 he and Dawn traveled to Iceland and England to strengthen
2150-688: The Holocaust , said in a speech in 1937: "The next decades do in fact not mean some struggle of foreign politics which Germany can overcome or not ... but a question of to be or not to be for the white race ..." As the Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg said on 29 May 1938 on the Steckelburg in Schlüchtern : "It is however certain that all of us share the fate of Europe, and that we shall regard this common fate as an obligation, because in
2236-594: The Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901 and the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 before parliament rose for its first Christmas recess. The Immigration Restriction Act limited immigration to Australia and required a person seeking entry to Australia to write out a passage of 50 words dictated to them in any European language , not necessarily English , at the discretion of an immigration officer. Barton argued in favour of
2322-603: The Reunited National Party under Malan won the South African general election against the more moderate United Party and implemented the segregationist social system known as apartheid . The Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act, 1959 established homelands (sometimes pejoratively referred to as Bantustans ) for ten different black African tribes. The ultimate goal of the National Party
2408-917: The first elections following the Federation of Australia in 1901, was formed by the Protectionist Party with the support of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The support of the Labor Party was contingent upon restricting non-white immigration, reflecting the attitudes of the Australian Workers' Union and other labor organizations at the time, upon whose support the Labor Party was founded. The first Parliament of Australia quickly moved to restrict immigration to maintain Australia's "British character", passing
2494-421: The one-drop rule . Since the second half of the 20th century, attempts to categorize humans by race have become increasingly seen as largely pseudoscientific. The White Australia policy was semi-official government policy in Australia until the mid twentieth century. It restricted non-white immigration to Australia and gave preference to British migrants over all others. The Barton government , which won
2580-472: The "Germanic Order" in 1918, and those who wanted to join the Order in 1917 had to sign a special "blood declaration of faith" concerning their lineage: "The signer hereby swears to the best of his knowledge and belief that no Jewish or coloured blood flows in either his or in his wife's veins, and that among their ancestors are no members of the coloured races." Heinrich Himmler , one of the main perpetrators of
2666-424: The 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, the government implemented a policy of "resettlement", to force people to move to their designated "group areas". Millions of people were forced to relocate during this period. These removals included people relocated due to slum clearance programs, labour tenants on White-owned farms, the inhabitants of the so-called "black spots", areas of Black owned land surrounded by White farms,
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2752-531: The 50,000 Blacks it contained, both in terms of its sheer vibrancy and its unique culture. Despite a vigorous African National Congress protest campaign and worldwide publicity, the removal of Sophiatown began on 9 February 1955 under the Western Areas Removal Scheme. In the early hours, heavily armed police entered Sophiatown to force residents out of their homes and load their belongings onto government trucks. The residents were taken to
2838-560: The AFA was a member of the International Asatru-Odinic Alliance . McNallen believes in an "integral link between ancestry and religion, between biology and spirituality"; according to Jeffrey Kaplan , the organization was founded in part to counteract rumored "universalist" tendencies he discerned in Ring of Troth . In 1999, the AFA attempted to acquire land in the northern California , intending to create
2924-573: The Anglophone white South African population to perceive that the British government had abandoned them. The more conservative Anglophones gave support to Verwoerd; others were troubled by the severing of ties with Britain and remained loyal to the Crown . They were acutely displeased at the choice between British and South African nationality. Although Verwoerd tried to bond these different blocs,
3010-743: The Aryan Herrenvolk ("Aryan master race") explicitly excluded the vast majority of Slavs , regarding the Slavs as having dangerous Jewish and Asiatic influences. The Nazis, because of this, declared Slavs to be Untermenschen . Hitler described Slavs as "a mass of born slaves who feel the need of a master". Hitler declared that because Slavs were subhumans that the Geneva Conventions were not applicable to them, and German soldiers in World War II were thus permitted to ignore
3096-628: The Common Roll of Cape Province in 1953. Instead of voting for the same representatives as white South Africans , they could now only vote for four White representatives to speak for them. Later, in 1968, the Coloureds were disenfranchised altogether. In the place of the four parliamentary seats, a partially elected body was set up to advise the government in an amendment to the Separate Representation of Voters Act . During
3182-672: The Geneva Conventions in regard to Slavs. Hitler called Slavs "a rabbit family" meaning they were intrinsically idle and disorganized. Nazi Germany's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had media speak of Slavs as primitive animals who were from the Siberian tundra who were like a "dark wave of filth". The Nazi notion of Slavs being inferior was part of the agenda for creating Lebensraum ("living space") for Germans and other Germanic people in Central and Eastern Europe that
3268-529: The Group Areas Act. Some 40,000 White people were also forced to move when land was transferred from "White South Africa" into the Black homelands. Before South Africa became a republic, politics among white South Africans was typified by the division between the chiefly Afrikaans -speaking pro-republic conservative and the largely English-speaking anti-republican liberal sentiments, with the legacy of
3354-654: The Mexicans are Indians, and the other is composed chiefly of mixed tribes. I protest against such a union as that! Ours, sir, is the Government of a white race." Following the defeat of the Confederate States of America and the abolition of slavery in the United States at the end of the American Civil War , the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was founded as an insurgent group with the goal of maintaining
3440-550: The New Australian Movement founded New Australia , a white supremacist utopian socialist settlement in 1893. Its founder, William Lane , intended the settlement to be based on a "common-hold" instead of a commonwealth, life marriage, teetotalism , communism and a brotherhood of Anglophone white people and the preservation of the "colour-line". The colony was officially founded as Colonia Nueva Australia and comprised 238 adults and children. In July 1893,
3526-740: The Saints and referring specifically to the admixture of Europeans and non-European migrants, commenting that racially mixed countries "are no longer nations." Two days later in Vienna, he clarified that he was talking about cultures and not about race. Laura Barrón-López of PBS described his ideology as white nationalist. White nationalists of the American alt-right and the European identitarian movements enthusiastically support Orbán's policies. Some have personally migrated there and collaborated with
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3612-538: The South to the Midwest and West. The second KKK called for strict morality and better enforcement of prohibition . Its rhetoric promoted anti-Catholicism and nativism. Some local groups took part in attacks on private houses and carried out other violent activities. The violent episodes were generally in the South. The second KKK was a formal fraternal organization , with a national and state structure. At its peak in
3698-713: The Southern racial system throughout the Reconstruction Era . The creation of this group was able to instill fear in African Americans while, in some cases, filling white Americans with pride in their race and reassurance in the fact that they will stay 'on top'. The message they gave to people around them was that, even though the Confederate States did not exist anymore, the same principle remained in their minds: whites were superior. Although
3784-607: The US , but it specifically excluded untaxed Indians , because they were separate nations. However, citizenship for other non-whites born in the US was not settled until 1898 with United States v. Wong Kim Ark , 169 U.S. 649 , which concluded with an important precedent in its interpretation of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This racial definition of American citizenship has had consequences for perceptions of American identity. In
3870-590: The United States was William Luther Pierce , who founded the National Alliance in 1974. In the United States a movement calling for white separatism emerged in the 1980s. Leonard Zeskind has chronicled the movement in his book Blood and Politics , in which he argues that it has moved from the "margins to the mainstream". During the 1980s the United States also saw an increase in the number of esoteric subcultures within white nationalism. According to Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke , these movements cover
3956-600: The United States, it often—though not exclusively—implies European ancestry of non-Jewish descent. Some white nationalists draw on 19th-century racial taxonomy . White nationalist Jared Taylor has argued that Jews can be considered "white", although this is controversial within white nationalist circles. Many white nationalists oppose Israel and Zionism , while some, such as William Daniel Johnson and Taylor, have expressed support for Israel and have drawn parallels between their ideology and Zionism. Other white nationalists such as George Lincoln Rockwell exclude Jews from
4042-623: The Viking Brotherhood, founded by McNallen in 1972. McNallen was one of the earliest advocates in the United States of reconstructing Germanic Paganism . The Viking Brotherhood evolved into the Asatru Free Assembly in 1974, and was disbanded in 1986, splitting into two successor organizations, the "folkish" Ásatrú Alliance , and the " universalist " Troth . In 1986, the Asatru Free Assembly ceased operations, due to burnout and disputes about polygamous relationships within
4128-649: The bill: "The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman." The passage chosen for the test could often be very difficult, so that even if the test was given in English, a person was likely to fail. The test enabled immigration officials to exclude individuals on the basis of race without explicitly saying so. Although the test could theoretically be given to any person arriving in Australia, in practice it
4214-483: The definition but include Turks , who are a transcontinental ethnicity. White nationalist definitions of race are derived from the fallacy of racial essentialism, which presumes that people can be meaningfully categorized into different races by biology or appearance. White nationalism and white supremacy view race as a hierarchy of biologically discrete groups. This has led to the use of often contradictory obsolete racial categories such as Aryanism , Nordicism , or
4300-516: The descendants of the Germanic Goths . However the Nazi regime continued to classify Croats as "subhuman" in spite of the alliance. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated in 2018 that "we do not want to be diverse and do not want to be mixed: we do not want our own colour, traditions and national culture to be mixed with those of others." In 2022, he stated that "we do not want to become peoples of mixed-race," praising The Camp of
4386-468: The end the very existence of White people depends on the unity of the European continent." At the same time Nazi Party subdivided white people into groups, viewing the Nordics as the " master race " ( Herrenvolk ) above groups like Alpine and Mediterranean peoples. Slavic peoples, such as Russians and Poles, were considered Untermenschen (subhumans) instead of Aryan. Adolf Hitler 's conception of
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#17327756426604472-679: The families of workers living in townships close to the homelands, and "surplus people" from urban areas, including thousands of people from the Western Cape (which was declared a "Coloured Labour Preference Area") who were moved to the Transkei and Ciskei homelands. The best-publicised forced removals of the 1950s occurred in Johannesburg , when 60,000 people were moved to the new township of Soweto , an abbreviation for South Western Townships. Until 1955, Sophiatown had been one of
4558-436: The few urban areas where Blacks were allowed to own land, and was slowly developing into a multiracial slum. As industry in Johannesburg grew, Sophiatown became the home of a rapidly expanding black workforce, as it was convenient and close to town. It could also boast the only swimming pool for Black children in Johannesburg. As one of the oldest black settlements in Johannesburg, Sophiatown held an almost symbolic importance for
4644-452: The first KKK is considered to be one of the factors which led to the emergence of the second KKK. The second KKK was founded in Atlanta, Georgia , in 1915 and, starting in 1921, it adopted a modern business system of recruiting. The organization grew rapidly nationwide at a time of prosperity. Reflecting the social tensions of urban industrialization and vastly increased immigration, its membership grew most rapidly in cities and spread out of
4730-504: The first incarnation of the KKK was focused on maintaining the Antebellum South , its second incarnation in the 1915-1940s period was much more oriented towards white nationalism and American nativism, with slogans such as "One Hundred Percent Americanism" and "America for Americans", in which "Americans" were understood to be white and Protestant. The 1915 film The Birth of a Nation is an example of an allegorical invocation of white nationalism during this time, and its positive portrayal of
4816-422: The first ship left Sydney, Australia for Paraguay, where the government was keen to get white settlers, and had offered the group a large area of good land. The settlement had been described as a refuge for misfits, failures and malcontents of the left wing of Australian democracy. Notable Australian individuals who joined the colony included Mary Gilmore , Rose Summerfield and Gilbert Stephen Casey . Summerfield
4902-405: The great distance usually necessitated a stopover in either Japan or Hawaii . These regulations came at a time when Canada was accepting massive numbers of immigrants (over 400,000 in 1913 alone—a figure that remains unsurpassed to this day), almost all of whom came from Europe . This piece of legislation has been called the " continuous journey regulation ". The Thule Society developed out of
4988-525: The home of the descendants of those people who came here in peace in order to establish in the South Seas an outpost of the British race." Another (ALP) Leader of the Labor Party from 1960 to 1967 Arthur Calwell supported the White European Australia policy. This is reflected by Calwell's comments in his 1972 memoirs, Be Just and Fear Not , in which he made it clear that he maintained his view that non-European people should not be allowed to settle in Australia. He wrote: I am proud of my white skin, just as
5074-430: The homelands, not of the nation as a whole, and were expected to exercise their political rights only in the homelands. Accordingly, the three token parliamentary seats that had been reserved for White representatives of black South Africans in Cape Province were scrapped. The other three provinces— Transvaal , the Orange Free State , and Natal —had never allowed any Black representation. Coloureds were removed from
5160-422: The maintenance of our White Australia Policy to continue as an integral portion of the British Empire. We intend to keep this country white and not allow its peoples to be faced with the problems that at present are practically insoluble in many parts of the world. At the beginning of World War II , Prime Minister John Curtin (ALP) expressed support for White Australia policy: "This country shall remain forever
5246-453: The membership. According to accounts by McNallen, it was not due to racial politics, but because administration was time-consuming and the membership rejected a request seeking pay for religious work. McNallen founded the Asatru Folk Assembly in 1995 as the successor organization to the Asatru Free Assembly. The defunct Asatru Free Assembly and Asatru Folk Assembly are sometimes called the "old AFA" and "new AFA", respectively. From 1997 to 2002,
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#17327756426605332-489: The mid-1920s, the organization claimed to include about 15% of the nation's eligible population, approximately 4 to 5 million men. Internal divisions, criminal behavior by leaders, and external opposition brought about a collapse in membership, which had dropped to about 30,000 by 1930. It faded away in the 1940s. Starting in the 1960s, white nationalism grew in the US as the conservative movement developed in mainstream society. Samuel P. Huntington argues that it developed as
5418-411: The next few years, and was not limited to people of African descent. Forced removals from areas like Cato Manor (Mkhumbane) in Durban , and District Six in Cape Town , where 55,000 coloured and Indian people were forced to move to new townships on the Cape Flats , were carried out under the Group Areas Act 1950. Ultimately, nearly 600,000 coloured, Indian and Chinese people were moved in terms of
5504-427: The notion of unanimity of White people to ensure their safety. Anglophone white South Africans voters were divided. Many had opposed a republic, leading to a majority "no" vote in Natal . Later, however, some of them recognized the perceived need for White unity, convinced by the growing trend of decolonization elsewhere in Africa, which left them apprehensive. Harold Macmillan 's " Wind of Change " pronouncement lead
5590-618: The other, or both interchangeably. White nationalists claim that culture is a product of race, and advocate for the self-preservation of white people. White nationalists seek to ensure the survival of the white race, and the cultures of historically white nations. They hold that white people should maintain their majority in mainly-white countries, maintain their dominance of its political and economic life, and that their culture should be foremost. Many white nationalists believe that miscegenation , multiculturalism , mass immigration of non-whites and low birth rates among whites are threatening
5676-422: The political party Jobbik . Following the example of anti-Chinese poll taxes enacted by California in 1852 and by Australian states in the 1850s, 1860s and 1870s, John Hall 's government passed the Chinese Immigration Act 1881. This imposed a £10 tax per Chinese person entering the Colony of New Zealand , and permitted only one Chinese immigrant for every 10 tons of cargo. Richard Seddon 's government increased
5762-519: The sentence was commuted to life incarceration in New Zealand psychiatric institutions. A Department of External Affairs memorandum in 1953 stated: "Our immigration is based firmly on the principle that we are and intend to remain a country of European development. It is inevitably discriminatory against Asians—indeed against all persons who are not wholly of European race and colour. Whereas we have done much to encourage immigration from Europe, we do everything to discourage it from Asia." In Paraguay ,
5848-479: The subsequent ballot illustrated only a minor swell of support, indicating that a great many Anglophones remained apathetic and that Verwoerd had not succeeded in uniting the White population in South Africa. The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970 was a denaturalization law passed during the apartheid era of South Africa that changed the status of the inhabitants of the Bantustans (Black homelands) so that they were no longer citizens of South Africa. The aim
5934-423: The tax to £100 per head in 1896, and tightened the other restriction to only one Chinese immigrant for every 200 tons of cargo. The Immigration Restriction Act of 1899 prohibited the entry of immigrants who were not of British or Irish parentage and who were unable to fill out an application form in "any European language". The Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1920 aimed to further limit Asian immigration into
6020-400: The term "white nationalism" is simply a "rebranding", and ideas such as white pride exist solely to provide a sanitized public face for "white supremacy", which white nationalists allegedly avoid using because of its negative connotations, and that most white nationalist groups promote racial violence. According to Merriam-Webster , the first documented use of the term "white nationalist"
6106-430: The two terms as functionally interchangeable. Ryan Lenz of the Southern Poverty Law Center has said "there is really no difference", and Kristen Clarke of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has said "There is no defensible distinction that can be drawn between white supremacy, white nationalism or white separatism in society today." News reports will sometimes refer to a group or movement by one term or
6192-568: The white race, and some argue that it amounts to white genocide . Political scientist Samuel P. Huntington described white nationalists as arguing that the demographic shift in the United States towards non-whites would bring a new culture that is intellectually and morally inferior. White nationalists claim that this demographic shift brings affirmative action , immigrant ghettos and declining educational standards. Most American white nationalists say immigration should be restricted to people of European ancestry. White nationalists embrace
6278-525: The white race. Analysts describe white nationalism as overlapping with white supremacism and white separatism . White nationalism is sometimes described as a euphemism for, or subset of, white supremacism, and the two have been used interchangeably by journalists and analysts. White separatism is the pursuit of a "white-only state", while supremacism is the belief that white people are superior to nonwhites and should dominate them, taking ideas from social Darwinism and Nazism . Critics argue that
6364-728: The work of the Rune-Gild. In April 1996 Flowers retired from his position as Grand Master of the Order of the Trapezoid in order to focus more intently on Rune-Gild matters. A 2011 article in The Pomegranate described Flowers as a publisher of Alain de Benoist "who has openly expressed the importance of promoting the New Right among Pagans in the United States". Damon T. Berry's 2017 book Blood and Faith said Flowers
6450-495: The Óinshof District”. Since 2013, the AFA has owned rights to many of the books of "Edred Thorsson" (a pen name of Stephen Flowers ). In August 2015, the AFA acquired a former Grange Hall in Challenge–Brownsville, California , about 40 miles from Grass Valley, where the group was founded. The hall was built in 1938, and was purchased to be used as a hof and community center under the name Newgrange Hall Asatru Hof. It
6536-663: Was "to keep Oriental immigrants out of British Columbia." The Canadian government also attempted to restrict immigration from British India by passing an order-in-council on 8 January 1908. It prohibited immigration of persons who "in the opinion of the Minister of the Interior" did not "come from the country of their birth or citizenship by a continuous journey and or through tickets purchased before leaving their country of their birth or nationality." In practice, this applied only to ships that began their voyages in India , because
6622-524: Was 1951, to refer to a member of a militant group which espouses white supremacy and racial segregation . Merriam-Webster also notes usage of the two-word phrase as early as 1925. According to Dictionary.com , the term was first used in the title of a 1948 essay by South African writer and ecologist Thomas Chalmers Robertson titled Racism Comes to Power in South Africa: The Threat of White Nationalism . According to Daryl Johnson,
6708-676: Was championed by the National Party starting in 1914, when it was established as a political party to represent Afrikaners after the Second Boer War by J. B. M. Hertzog in 1914. It articulated a policy promoting white "civilised labour" above African " swart gevaar ," and some radical nationalist movements such as the Afrikaner Broederbond , D. F. Malan 's Purified National Party , and Oswald Pirow 's New Order openly sympathized with Nazi Germany. In 1948,
6794-526: Was given selectively on the basis of race. This test was later abolished in 1958. Australian Prime Minister Stanley Bruce supported the White Australia policy, and made it an issue in his campaign for the 1925 Australian federal election . It is necessary that we should determine what are the ideals towards which every Australian would desire to strive. I think those ideals might well be stated as being to secure our national safety, and to ensure
6880-486: Was initiated during World War II under Generalplan Ost , millions of Germans and other Germanic settlers would be moved into conquered territories of Eastern Europe, while the original Slavic inhabitants were to be exterminated and enslaved. Nazi Germany's ally the Independent State of Croatia rejected the common conception that Croats were primarily a Slavic people and claimed that Croats were primarily
6966-884: Was on active duty in Afghanistan and one worked as a jailer for the Haralson County but was not terminated from his position. One member, East, now holds a leadership position at the Njordshof hof. On August 10, 2024, Zachary Babitz, a member of the Asatru Folk Assembly, was arrested in Las Cruces, New Mexico for allegedly committing several violent crimes, including murder, carjacking, and robbery, throughout New Mexico earlier that month. The group previously described Babitz, who had " 1488 " tattooed on his hand, as “the newest apprentice Folkbuilder for
7052-582: Was popularized by American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell , who used the term in a debate with Stokely Carmichael of the Black Panther Party after Carmichael issued a call for " black power ". Rockwell advocated a return to white control of all American institutions, and violently opposed any minority advancement. He rejected the Nazi idea of " master race ", however, and accepted all white European nationalities in his ideology, including Turks . One influential white nationalist in
7138-758: Was previously the Youth Center of the Mountaintop Christian Academy of California, and at another time the Marge Moore Youth Center. This first hof has since been named Odinshof, in dedication to the god Odin . In April 2020, the AFA acquired a former church in Linden, North Carolina , which has been turned into a heathen hof serving AFA members in the Southeastern United States . This second hof
7224-580: Was the mother of León Cadogan , a noted Paraguayan ethnologist. Due to poor management and a conflict over the prohibition of alcohol, the government of Paraguay eventually dissolved New Australia as a cooperative. Some colonists founded communes elsewhere in Paraguay but others returned to Australia or moved to England. As of 2008 , around 2,000 descendants of the New Australia colonists still lived in Paraguay. In South Africa , white nationalism
7310-414: Was to ensure that white South Africans came to make up the majority of the de jure population. The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 103 ) provided the first rules to be followed by the United States government in granting national citizenship. This law limited naturalization to immigrants who were "free white persons" of "good moral character." In 1856, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in
7396-503: Was to move all Black South Africans into one of these homelands (although they might continue to work in South Africa as " guest workers " ), leaving what was left of South Africa (about 87 percent of the land area) with what would then be a White South African majority, at least on paper. As the homelands were seen by the apartheid government as embryonic independent nations, all Black South Africans were registered as citizens of
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