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Is it possible that he is using Jared's Diamond's hypothesis from "Guns germs and steel" , that the reason that certain cultures have prospered is more due to the luck of their geographical situation than any genetic superiority.?

I hope you are right, but if so that could have been explained in the interview (unless it was explained and the article's author missed that out).

I'm responding here to what is published.

"I think...that the whole of Europe, indeed the whole of Indo-Europe, is based on latitude. That's the reason white-Anglo-Saxon Protestants are in charge of the world, it's a latitudinal thing."

Yes, I think Tiompan is right here, I think this is a reference to Jared Diamond's 'Guns, Germs and Steel' (Where Diamond makes a convincing case that one of the deciding factors for civilisation excellerating in Indo Europe before other parts of the world was because of the East-West layout of the continent - as opposed to the North-South layout of the Americas and Africa.) Admitedly it's not the clearest explanation of Diamond's ideas that I've ever read - and it seems that the writer chose it because it was so confusing - but I wouldn't say it's dodgy. Diamond really pisses off the Nazis because he's explained everything in terms of environment and pretty much destroyed any explanation where differences between races plays a part - his book is a good read, and I for one am happy to nail my flag to his ideas.

"But it's practical to have a Scando-Germanic domination and I use that term really specifically. Are you with me?"

I have no idea what Cope's on about here. Which term is he being specific about - 'practical', 'Scando-Germanic' or 'domination'? What's the context, what are they talking about? I haven't a clue - so I won't join the Cope lynch mob just yet.

But I'm pretty sure Cope doesn't believe that one race is superior to other races and should be dominant, if that's what's worrying people.