…aka classical climate theory: an ancient racialism ingrained in our thinking through the influence of intuitive humoral psychology. Sh’s generation recorded the falling from grace of this particular theory. Nowadays you’ll find it in your horoscope in any newspaper.
Thin body types are secretive, fat types are jovial, medium build types are adventurous.
Now apply this same reasoning to climate. Dark types are lusty and passionate and wise, white types are aggressive and dim-witted.
To think the northern white man was once the outcast of the human races, struggling to find its place in the histories of civilizations. An upstart crow if you will. Boy how times have changed.
Read a review here of Mary Floyd-Wilson’s book
‘English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama’ from which this new word to me is taken.
Graphic novel fans should try this new site entitled Kill Shakespeare, pitting his villains against his heroes!
Several weeks later, the graphic novel is released and reviewed to content and discontent.
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