Judeomussarism
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Judeomussarism or Judeo-mussarism is a political theory and ideology coined by Belhavian sociologist Noah Ben-Levy to describe the distinctive character of Belhavian imperialism overseas, proposing that the Belhavians were better colonizers than other civilized nations.
Ben-Levy and his supporters posit that because of Belhavia's divine destiny among the nations and Jewish ethics and morality, Belhavians are more humane, friendly, lenient, and adaptable to administering other climates and cultures.
In addition, by the 1960s, Belhavia was by far the Westernized colonial power with the oldest and most durable territorial presence overseas; in comparison, its major rivals the Belfrasian and Ulthrannic empires had fallen or receded to a collection of outlying overseas rump possessions. In some cases, the Belhavian Empire's territories had been continuously settled and ruled by Belhavians throughout two and a half centuries. Judeomussarism celebrated both actual and mythological elements of racial social harmony and civilizing mission in the Belhavian empire.
Commentary on the ideology
When Ben-Levy published this theory in 1965 in the Imperial Provisa University Journal of Political Science on the 250th anniversary of the Proclamation of the Empire, he received applause from general Belhavian elites but criticism from emerging postmodern leftist scholars in Belhavia and elsewhere.
He repeated several times over the decades that he did not create "the myth of racial social harmony" and that the fact that his work recognized the intense mixing between "races" in the colonies did not mean a lack of prejudice or discrimination by Belhavian Jews and others towards black Ashizwean, Ulthrannic, and Anikatian subjects and residents.
"The interpretation of those who want to place me among the sociologists or anthropologists who said prejudice of race among the Belhavians or the Jews toward their different-hewed subjects never existed is extreme. What I have always suggested is that such prejudice is minimal [...] when compared to that which is still in place elsewhere, where laws still regulate relations between various white ethnics and other groups across the world".
"It is not that racial prejudice or social prejudice related to complexion or other factors like ethnoreligious identities are absent in Belhavia's overseas possessions...they exist. But no one here would have thought of "white-only" or "Jew-only" public facilities that exist in other places. Fraternal spirit is stronger among Belhavians than racial prejudice, color, socioeconomic strata, ethnicity, or religion.".
Alternate views on Belhavian territories
Since the 1910s, there has been an increasing discomfort among Belhavian liberals concerning "the Empire". Some of these apprehensions arose from anti-colonial thought from the early 20th century and new notions of self-determination, or later in the 1960s and 1970s among new postmodern leftist theories of thought.
In order to support the continued post-1945 colonial and imperial settlement, many Belhavian liberals adopted President Yavin Leibniz's notion of pluricontinentalism, a geopolitical concept positing that Belhavia was a unified nation-state that spanned multiple continents and was not, de jure, a colonial empire.