How did Nordics became a fetish race?

How did Nordics became a fetish race?

Late 18th/early 19th century.

One guy shoving a banana up his ass doesn't make a "fetish race."

>steal old Romano-Gallic designs such as ornate armor, helmet adornments, helmets in general, heraldry, symbolism on armor
Now before the norsaboos come in and claim that Bronze/Iron Age Denmark is the homeland of Nords and not Gauls (like the linguistic evidence suggests) I would like to point out that Eagle heraldry is an entirely Mediterranean concept, yet it became ubiquitous in artistic depictions of Norse gods, heroes, and leaders. Look at any picture of Odin, when he's not wearing a hat, hes wearing a winged helmet. The only European peoples to put wings on their helmets were or adorn their helmets at all were the Gauls.
Roman and Greek adornments were for rank rather than vanity.
More on Denmark being Gallic.
The Cimbri from Northern Denmark were led by men all with Gallic, not Germanic names. Make of this what you will but Hallstatt culture probably spread into Northern Europe in some degree, and even if the people of Denmark racially speaking were not Gallic, there is a fair chance they had Gallic names and Gallic culture, at least in some degree.

Nordicism is unfortunately a failure. The real Nords were the indigenous people of Europe before the New Stone Farmers and the proto-Indo-European invasion.
Those people were wiped out by demographic shift from intermarriage and from warfare.
There were simply more farmers/horsemen.
The Balts have the genetic legacy of these native Europeans, but they do not have a masculine legacy, only the legacy of Indo-European men taking their women.
However the Scandinavians have the paternal legacy with the I1 haplo-group, which means the native Europeans took Indo-European women in large numbers and bred them, but modern Nords are more Indo-European than Native Indigenous European.

Blame slavs for fetishizing a Nordic ideal.

All romantic nationalists of the 19th century were LARPing sentimental retards, Nordicists didn't stand out from the general European crowd. It's how this shit keeps surviving into 21st century that's perplexing.

>It's how this shit keeps surviving into 21st century that's perplexing.
>post beautiful Nords
>everyone likes blue eyes and blonde hair
It tends to be present in every family in Europe and it's diaspora states (America, Australia/NZ, Canada)

I knew a Greek/Italian family where every male had brown/black hair and brown eyes and all the females had blonde hair and blue/green eyes.
4/3 male to female ratio.

THERE IS NO “NORDIC RACE” —THE TERM “NORDIC” REFERS TO ETHNICITIES THAT ORIGINATE FROM, OR RESIDE IN AND AROUND, SCANDINAVIA.

When they became wealthy. Poor nations don't attract interest even if they have interesting history. There is certain bias contemporary conditions apply on our outlook. Look how they despised China just a decade ago and now they suddenly became eternal culturally-rich 'greatest empire' Roman tremble at. I am afraid what will become once Chinese stop spitting and their GDP per capital will reach say South Korean...

Goths were worshipped in southern Europe as semi-divine ancestors since the fall of the Roman Empire.

TJ isn’t Nordic though he’s a Celt