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I've seen a lot of ethnonationalist rhetoric online by middle eastern christian groups stating that they are the true heirs to the region, and that this is just
by rozab 6y ago
I've seen a lot of ethnonationalist rhetoric online by middle eastern christian groups stating that they are the true heirs to the region, and that this is justifiable by genetics. I would take such claims with a large wheelbarrow of salt.
Looking further up that thread, someone else said:
>And BTW the Coptic Christians in Egypt are the REAL Egyptians not Arab invaders.
- teshier-A 6y agoIt seems to be the scientific consensus. I personally don't think genetics carry any hereditary claim to a thousand years old culture but it always bothers me to see people go against state of the art scientific conclusions (unless they have good evidence of their own). >Copts share the same main ancestral component than North African and Middle East populations (dark blue), supporting a common origin with Egypt (or other North African/Middle Eastern populations). They are known to be the most ancient population of Egypt and at k = 4 (Fig.3), they show their own component (dark green) different from the current Egyptian population which is closer to the Arabic population of Qatar. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4446898/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4446898/