I. The General Hierarchies

The general hierarchies involve four major peoples, namely, Europeans, Easterners (South Asians, and Arabs), Africans and Orientals (East Asians). Using the three-tiered hierarchy, the Europeans and the Easterners may be grouped as political peoples, while the Africans as a social people, and the Orientals as an economic people.

A political people are a culture where there is a pronounced consciousness of power. The role of the elite is crucial in such a culture.

A social people are a culture that stresses the status of lifestyle, and human communication. The middle class is the backbone of such a culture.

An economic people are a culture where there is a primacy of creation and accumulation of wealth. The working class ethic is strong in such a culture.

Again, each of these peoples contains cultures that repeat the three-tiered hierarchies.

Now the Europeans and the Easterners, although similarly grouped as political people, may be seen to also represent two evolutionary stages in the political history of the world. Thus the evolution of the political history of the world through the ancient, medieval and modern ages can be also analogous to the three phases of human development : childhood, youth and adulthood, respectively.

Biologically, the human male and female are the two ultimate political entities in the world. And they can also be associated with the historical evolution of the world : ancient age-childhood-male, medieval age-youth-female, and modern age-adulthood-unisexual.

A male-rooted people are those where the male element is particularly pronounced. Conversely, a female-rooted people are those where the female element is particularly pronounced. In Chinese and Indian philosophies there has been the concept of yin and yang, shiv and shakti, which delineates the male and female principles and personalities. While unisexual people composite the male and female elements.

In this regard, the Europeans may be considered as a male-rooted people, while the Easterners as a female-rooted people. A third group of people, the modern age-emerged Universals would then be a ‘unisexual’-rooted people.

Since male and female are not mutually exclusive, in the three-tiered hierarchies the Europeans have primary male and secondary female-rooted cultures, and conversely, the Easterners have primary female and secondary male-rooted cultures. Secondary male and female roots are analogous to the Jungian concept of animus and anima – animus : male part of a female personality; anima : female part of a male personality.

Apart from the modern age-emerged Universals, the social Africans and the economic Orientals also have unisexual-adult-modern age roots, though of course they existed through the pre-modern world.