The Silent Rape Epidemic: How the Finns Were Groomed to Love Their Abusers by Edward Dutton

Author:Edward Dutton
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Thomas Edward Press
Published: 2019-03-06T06:00:00+00:00

4. Schizophrenia, Anxiety, and Life History Strategy

We shouldn’t be at all surprised by the levels of schizophrenia in Finland. It is entirely consistent with their evolution to a cold yet harsh environment and this is further evidenced by the very high rates of schizophrenia in the wealthier Northeast Asian countries. In this regard, it should be noted that Finns – though not Finland-Swedes to the same degree – have around 10% Northeast Asian admixture (Virtaranta-Knowles et al., 1991) which is also likely to be relevant, as the ancestral environment of the Northeast Asians is very harsh yet stable. Indeed, as I observed in my academic article ‘Battling to be European (Dutton, 2008), some linguists used to be convinced that Finnish was related to Mongolian and Japanese (e.g. Gleason, 1969) and it was commonly accepted, in the first half of the twentieth century, that Finns were not only non-Aryan (being Finno-Ugric) but also ‘non-white,’ an issue explored in depth, and with evident personal bitterness, in the book Finns In the Shadow of the ‘Aryans’ by Finnish historian Aira Kemilainen (1919-2006). According to mid-Nineteenth century racial taxonomies based on physical appearance, Finns were regarded as ‘yellow’ rather than ‘white’ (Virtanen, 1985). German anthropologist Johann Blumenbach (1752-1840) argued, based on skull shape, that Finns were ‘nomads from the Steppes’ (Hietala, 1985). The so-called ‘Mongol Theory’ of Finnish origins became orthodoxy (Kilpeläinen, 1985). Until as recently as the 1960s, encyclopedias in Nordic countries stated that Finns were ‘mongoloid’ (Aro, 1985, p.520). In the 1960s, among younger left wing Finns, there was even a renewed pride in their ‘drops of Mongolian blood’ (Kemiläinen, 2000, p.285). From the 1960s, the accepted ‘narrative’ began to change and Finnish promotional literature insisted that the country was as ‘European’ as any other (Anttonen, 2005). Kemiläinen (2000) stated, for example, that Finns were ‘Old Europeans,’ descendants of a particularly early settlement. Of course, this begs the question of why the Finnish X chromosome appears to have arrived in northern Europe from the east (Wiik, 2008). The issue of Finnish origins is contentious. But, as we have already discussed, the ecology of Northeast Asia – as well as of Northern Europe - would select for highly cooperative groups; groups in which members were relatively high in Agreeableness and high in Conscientiousness. In other words, it would select for people who had high impulse control and who were cooperative and non-aggressive. In doing so, it would select for those who have low levels of testosterone, because testosterone is associated with aggressiveness and low impulse control (Van der Linden et al., 2018). Autism is correlated with high levels of testosterone and those who are autistic tend towards being uncooperative and antisocial, a dimension of autism being low empathy (Baron-Cohen, 2002). Unsurprisingly, at the other end of the spectrum, schizophrenia is associated with low testosterone levels (Agarwal, 2013).

Paralleling this, left-handedness is associated with high testosterone, right-handedness is correlated with low testosterone and autistics are more likely to be left-handed while schizophrenics are more likely to be right-handed (James, 1988).

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