Nordish race is a term referring to a theoretical sub-category of the Caucasoid race. It is a variant of the more established term "Nordic race" intended to bring a wider array of racial types under that umbrella. Indigenous Northern European peoples and their descendants around the world are said to be part of this race.

The term was coined by white nationalist Richard McCulloch who, on his website The Racial Compact, argues for "racial rights" and "racial preservation" in the face of encroaching "multiracialism." He focuses in particular on the rights of the "Nordish people."

The Nordish group encompasses several types: Hallstatt Nordic, Keltic Nordic, Brünn, Borreby, Anglo-Saxon, Trønder, Fälish, North-Atlantid, Paleo-Atlantid, Neo-Danubian, East Baltic, Noric and Sub-Nordic. Even though there are different subraces with varying phenotypes, idealized traits of the race are light hair, light eyes and tall stature.

The source material for the classification system is The Races of Europe (1939) by anthropologist Carleton Coon, but opponents argue that his findings are misrepresented by the grouping together, based on geographical proximity, of many different subraces that have few physical affinities. For example, Nordic, East Baltic and Noric types are respectively closer in morphology (and probably ancestry) to Mediterranean, Alpine and Dinaric types than they are to one another. Also downplayed are the Mediterranean elements in Britain (called "Atlantid") and the mongoloid (via Ladogan) component of Neo-Danubians and East Baltics.

See also

• Nordic theory

External links

• The Nordish Race definition by Richard McCulloch
• Society for Nordish Physical Anthropology
• The Nordish Race by Thyring
• Nordish? by Karl Earlson