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Until we genetically re-engineer humans to eliminate these primordial instincts, kinship will continue to matter (as the author notes, it is not unique to Europeans). In the current world, it is a short-lived society where it doesn't.

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No this is colonial social conditioning. Those same white Europeans werent scoffing at Arab, Persian or Indian scholars in the Renaissance, Romans and Greeks intermarried with Egyptians and Indians, even in the midst of the Crusades Brungandians were making alliences with Siljuks against Italy and the Fatimids didnt fight the crusaders because they were allied to the Bayzentines. And the Ottomans were alloed with Britain at some times and with Germany in World War 2, Boris Johnson himself is a descendent of an Ottoman official. The Ottoman sultan even offered to help with the potato famine in Ireland but was rebuffed by the British queen for giving more than her. There IS kinship, there IS massive history but since the colonial era and probably propped by Darwin and the the Nazis, Europeans have got it into their minds that they are genetically superior and should not even fix the mess they made when they took down the Ottomans and divided the middle east in a compeletely nonsensical way. This isnt even going into the even more messy Cold War history.

There are some typos and of course I meant world war 1. I am typing on a phone keyboard that isnt very accurate.

And yet, Six- to nine-month-old infants demonstrate racial bias in favor of members of their own race and racial bias against those of other races, two new studies conclude. - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170411130810.h...

Is Darwin and colonialism making babies act this way?

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