Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 17,624
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Re: Hans Günther Hoax about the "Denordisation of Italy"
This is quoted from wikipedia. My apologies, but I haven't found another source for it.
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Nordicism has also been attributed to the reaction to an inferiority complex. Phillip Wayne Powell, in his book, Tree of Hate (1985), claimed that the Nordic Myth began to arise in 15th century Germany, when Germans resented the fact that Italians looked down on them as an inferior and unsophisticated people. In page 48, he states:
In the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, a powerful surge of German patriotism was stimulated by the distain of Italians for German cultural inferiority and barbarism, which lead to a counterattempt by German humanists to laud German qualities.
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I will, however, purchase the book Tree of Hate as it contains other issues that are of my interest.
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