Why is racism foreign to the Czech and Slavic spirit? Because it has never truly existed here. The fact that someone complains about Gypsies stealing or refusing to work—rightly or wrongly—is not racism. People grumble about many groups for all sorts of reasons. Real racism is something entirely different: it is the panic that a “pure race” might be contaminated by “impure blood.” That is its essence. It is not about crime or laziness; it is about imagined biological defilement.
That kind of racism was born in the British Empire and remains native to the Anglo-Saxon world. Within that world, political factions differ only in which race they deem virtuous and which they see as wicked. Thus, on one side we have the Ku Klux Klan, and on the other, the progressive anti-white racism of Kamala Harris and her ilk. It is an endless, irreconcilable quarrel—one that no compromise can ever settle.
But there are other ways of seeing the human family. In the rival Russian Empire, for instance, a person simply belongs to the greater Russian world. No one ever thought to measure who has narrower eyes or darker skin. The very notion of “race” never took root there. Modern Israel offers another example: a Jew from Belarus stands equal with a Jew from Eritrea. To divide citizens into racial categories would be impossible by definition.
Historically, that was also the outlook of the Central European Slavs. Do we know of any Czech or Slovak chronicles that debated “purity of blood”? Of course not.
These two worldviews cannot truly understand one another. Some people instinctively divide, while others do not. Yet one thing is certain: if Americans and their cultural satellites could forget the word race altogether, they would live more peacefully. And if we, in Central Europe, foolishly adopt their racial obsession, we will only import needless troubles of our own making.