I identify as Filipino Jewish yet I have many Celtic Ancestors. Could Celts be the most privileged people?
All races are equal and to insure equal treatment it must be noted that some peoples are more privileged than others. Celts may be, beyond a reasonable doubt, the most privileged. Celts being included in Western Europeans with the Norse and the Germanics is definitely more than a geographic coincidence because all three of those groups have the highest privilege of any race. Western European may be loosely its own race given the intermixing that has occured over such abundant time between Norse, Germanics and Celts. Even contemporary power differentials between different races do not necessarily describe net privileges.
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Maganda umaga/ Boker tov, Good morning Alexander,
As an Anthropologist and human rights lawyer living in Europe, I am glad to see that you are focusing on Celtic/Keltic heritage because it is the key pan-European civilization that we know of, prior to the Greeks and Romans who now overshadow it. The de-emphasis on the Celts/Kelts is partly because of the lack of written records and maybe because many of their technological innovations were common to others, but more probably because of the Roman military defeat of the Kelts and because of the continuation of the cultural forms of the Roman Empire through Christianity. So, it would be great to focus on the Celts/Kelts and what they brought that could be re-emphasized today as well as what maybe does not fit today. BUT, your idea of "races" and of "privilege" are political and not scientific concepts and they don't really fit discussion on ResearchGate. That discussion can only fuel competition and hatred and does not lead to applications on the real survival problems and failures of globalization that we face today.
If you can rephrase your question in a way that focuses on identity and learning from your Celtic/Keltic and other heritage and how the survival strategies and advances of each group in their specific environments (and then in other places where each group may have adapted) can be better applied today, I think you will have a larger and more important discussion for everyone. It is very important today for the Philippines (and the many languages/cultures on the islands) and also for Jews to consider these specific questions of identity and key strategies and contributions in history, and similarly for other groups, rather than to focus on outmoded ideas of "race" or comparative "privilege".
David Lempert, Ph.D., J.D., M.B.A., E.D. (Hon.)
My bio states "Devoutly Anti-racist President of Ohnemus University(Anti-racist Think Tank)."
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