ABSTRACT
It cannot be denied that Jung wandered into dubious Lamarckian speculations with regard to the effect of the land itself on individual characteristics.1 However, with some rationalization and re-evaluation of his observations, he can be understood to say that over periods of hundreds if not thousands of years, ethnicities select for specific traits through cultural practices and preferences. In so doing, they not only built up a strong biological propensity to prefer certain traits, but also made those traits the more egregious by actively selecting for them. In such contexts similarities abound and a sense of identity can easily be established.2
