The Truth About White People No One Wants To Hear
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Summary
In this episode of Mythology and Conspiracy Theories, Alex Blumberg is joined by Elizabeth Bond to debate whether or not there is any such thing as a white, Western culture, and if so, who was the first white person to conquer the highest peak on Earth and the deepest depths of the ocean.
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So, you know, a lot of what we do on the show is debunk myths,
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dismantle false narratives and talk about the important facts,
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especially about American history that people don't want you to know about.
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And earlier this week on X, I commented on, and on the show,
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I commented on the remarkable fact that the desire among Western people,
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Europeans, Americans, white people, in other words, historically,
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the desire for adventure and exploration is one of the things that makes them historically unique.
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AOC pretends that there's no such thing as white people.
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That's one of the things, one of the defining characteristics of it that sets it apart from other cultures.
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I wrote earlier this week, Europeans and eventually Americans explored the entire world,
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mapped and charted every ocean and populated landmass.
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And then when they got bored in the 19th, 20th centuries,
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decided they might as well go to the North Pole and down to Antarctica,
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then up to the highest peak on Earth and down to the deepest depths of the ocean.
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The greatest indictment of our education system is that most kids will graduate grade school
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and then college without even the slightest appreciation of this absolutely remarkable story.
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So nothing but pure facts there, just that all that is obviously true.
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I'll read you some of the responses that I got to that, and we'll go through some of them.
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Placentapod, don't know if that's his Christian name or not, writes,
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Yes, so you want the learning target to be appreciate how much better my culture is than everyone else's?
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A fundamental goal of the education system in the West should be to give children an appreciation
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of the things that make Western civilization exceptional.
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Yes, a fundamental goal of the education system in your civilization should be to instill in children,
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instill in the next generation an appreciation of and a gratitude for your civilization.
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It should be one of those things that's so obvious it doesn't need to be said.
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What, you want people to appreciate that our culture is better?
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Of course I do, because number one, it is better.
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Yes, of course you want people to have that view of it.
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Especially when it happens to be objectively true.
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The highest peak Everest was first conquered by a New Zealander, Edmund Hillary, and Nepalese-Indian,
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And in fact, most who went to conquer Everest today, who want to conquer it, will not make it without the aid of a Sherpa guide,
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By the way, you know that someone, when somebody starts, when someone writes something and they start what they have written with the words,
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Ur or Um, you know that whatever follows is going to be the dumbest thing you've ever read.
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You know it's going to be the dumbest, most pompous thing you've ever read.
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When someone actually writes, Um, um, are you sure about that?
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Why do you think, what, you think he got me on that?
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I said that exploration is, you know, it's Westerners who made it to the highest peaks and the lowest depths.
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And you think he got, you think he got a gotcha?
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Because it was actually, he was from New Zealand.
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New Zealand was settled by Europeans in the 19th century.
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Even if they're on the other side of the world geographically, how did they get there?
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Another amazing accomplishment of European, uh, civilization.
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So if, if, if, if Edmund Hillary was a, was an aborigine, then you'd, then you'd have me.
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If he was aborigine, then that would be, yeah, you'd, you'd, then you'd have me.
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I'm afraid to tell you there are no aborigines going around the world, accomplishing anything.
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He had a guide just like a lot of polar explorers had enlisted Eskimos.
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Uh, sorry, Inuits to help them, um, you know, European settlers and conquerors in North America and South America and Central America.
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They had native guides and translators that they used.
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But that doesn't take away, uh, you know, the, uh, European explorers and, and, uh, settlers in the Pacific islands.
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Again, had translators guides that doesn't take away from the fact that the Europeans are the ones who did all this.
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In fact, it just kind of underscores really my point.
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When you consider that there were natives who lived near Mount Everest, but never thought to climb it.
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And you had natives who lived in the Arctic, never tried to make it to the North pole.
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And you had natives who lived in what is now the continental United States, but never explored beyond their own territory.
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And then Europeans come from half a world away from an entirely different world.
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And they have more curiosity about these people's neighborhoods than they did.
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Amendra Bishd wrote, the drive to explore is a species trait.
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Other civilizations pioneered it in different eras.
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The remarkable story isn't Western civilization alone.
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It's human civilization, uneven, competitive, often brutal, but relentlessly expansionist.
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Well, space exploration is multinational, but only in a way that again proves my point.
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First of all, space exploration was pioneered by the United States and, and the Soviets.
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Uh, and now the major players are the United States, uh, the European space agency, maybe
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like Germany, then you do have other countries like Japan and China.
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No African country has launched a person into space.
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Um, no central or South American country has independently launched a person in a space.
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There have been a few South, uh, I think it's a central South American country.
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I meant to say no central, no African country has launched a person in a space independently.
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No central South American country has launched a person into space independently.
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There have been a few, I think South Americans who have gone to space, hitching a ride on someone
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else's space program and their launch, but none of these countries have independently done
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Here we are 60 years after the first man went into space, Yuri Gagarin, Soviet, and they still
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Japan and China obviously are not white Western countries.
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Um, East Asian countries, China, Japan, South Korea are advanced.
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Although even they never had, uh, an age of exploration the way that Europeans did.
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You know, with a few except even them with a few exceptions, they, they mostly explored their
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own regions, explored and conquered their own regions.
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Um, the whole idea of like, I'm going to get in this ship and just go across this huge
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ocean to a place where I don't even know where I'm going.
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We're just going to go across this huge ocean, probably going to die on the way.
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If we don't, we're going to end up in some other place.
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Like that, that is something that again, with a few exceptions from other parts of the world,
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very few is, is something that was, was almost entirely unique to Western civilization.
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Uh, Joe Cutis says every one of those journeys was motivated by greed.
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So when you, when you say greed, what you're talking about is the, the drive for resources,
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which is not greed, by the way, in and of itself, an inordinate desire for material possessions.
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Whether someone has an inordinate desire for it is that's, I can't say, I can't look inside their souls.
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I especially can't do it 500 years after the fact, neither can you, but just getting in a ship
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and going to another part of the world in search of resources, that's not greed.
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Like you need resources in order to exist, in order for your civilization to exist at all.
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And so, yeah, like people had to do that back in the day.
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I know these days you sit around at your house and you have Amazon prime show up and everything
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You flip a light, you flip a switch, lights turn on, you pick up your phone.
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You take it all for granted that, Hey, why would anyone ever need to get into a ship and
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go to some other country, go to some other part of the world looking for resources?
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Why didn't they just go to their fridge and open it?
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Why couldn't they just go to their, um, go to their cupboard and open it and all the
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Go to all these other places looking for spices.
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These things that you take totally for granted back hundreds of years ago, this was like people,
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That is, that is, that was just necessary in order to survive.
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But that's also not the primary thing that drove, um, that these explorers and, and, and
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That's, it's, it's not, that's not what drove it.
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The primary thing that drove it was in many cases, curiosity, like wanting to see what's
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there, going to a place just to see what's there.
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I mean, Europeans had a deep hunger to just understand the world that they lived in.
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A desire to know for its own sake is what drove a lot of this.
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They were, they were driven by, uh, Christian, by their Christian virtue and their Christian,
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And by the call that we all have as Christians to go forth and spread the gospel.
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And that is, that's also what drove a lot of it.
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Uh, finally, Colleen writes, yeah, well, the obscure Eskimo who assisted in the effort
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gets the Google homepage recognition, especially if she, if it's a she, the guy who achieved
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I mean, that's why the average kid in school probably knows more about Sacagawea than,
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than they do about somebody like Kit Carson or Daniel Boone.
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Um, they probably never even heard of Kit Carson, maybe not Daniel Boone either.
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And the average kid in school, cause the education system is a failure.
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They also probably don't know much about Sacagawea, but they probably at least know,
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Um, and that's one of the most tragic things about the anti-white, anti-male obsession of
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our media and our education system, especially is that there are so many fascinating stories
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Uh, there are so many incredible people, uh, so many incredible men worthy of admiration
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And we don't even know about it, or the average American doesn't know about them because, you
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That, I mean, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, right?
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That, that, that, that is the, the reason why most of the greatest and most important stories
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in the history of the United States and of Western civilization more broadly are never told.
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Um, the, the, the reason simply is that the, the heroes of those stories are for the most
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part white and even worse for the left, for the most part, white men.
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And so that's hundreds of years of history that we just can't, if you're going to talk
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about it, you got to find, find a different hero for the story, find someone else, find
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the random Eskimo, even if you have to invent her, it doesn't matter.
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Just like find someone can't be this white guy.
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That's the tragedy of it, but not to make this all one big commercial, but that's one
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of the, uh, reasons why we created my series, real history, um, where we tell the real story
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