Letter to The Editor - Perfectly entitled to band together to protect their interests

To The Australian        In present debate about "white supremacism" I haven't seen use of the phrase "kith and kin". Perhaps this is because it embodies a conviction (currently politically incorrect) that it is natural and laudable for human beings in general to prefer to live among folk of their own ethnicity - and to fear historical change that threatens to make them minorities in their own homelands. Holding such an attitude does not necessarily involve adherence to any doctrine of ethnic supremacism. Thus, Jennifer Oriel may be too hasty ("We need the truth to understand", 25/3) in dismissing "ethnicity-based nationhood" and "ethno-nationalism". Such a policy can be followed without engagement in "the dehumanisation" of people of other ethnicities. In particular, white people around the world are perfectly entitled to band together to protect their interests as much as is reasonable.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic