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I can imagine an indigenous woman having a fling with a viking and just rasing the kid in her village. No one the wiser. It would be impossible to know if this
by 999900000999 5y ago
I can imagine an indigenous woman having a fling with a viking and just rasing the kid in her village. No one the wiser.
It would be impossible to know if this happened. Even if you found someone with both indigenous and Viking genetics, you don't know if it's because his great grandfather came from Norway in the 1920s.
The history of early American immigration is absolutely fascinating, there was a story of a Chinese man who just told everyone he was an indigenous American in order to avoid discrimination. I've actually met people from Eastern Europe who ended up working at Telemundo, no one can tell that they're not ethnically Hispanic. In fact, who to say what Hispanic is. There are plenty of Asians in Latin America, if some decide to migrate to America are they not still Hispanic ?
- wolverine876 5y ago> Even if you found someone with both indigenous and Viking genetics, you don't know if it's because his great grandfather came from Norway in the 1920s. Are you sure? My impression is that genetics are used to determine when humans spread across the world and how populations mixed.
- Tagbert 5y agoThose findings are based on the genetics of larger populations and specific samples of ancient DNA. If there were a only a handful of children born of both groups, that genetic trace would likely have faded out over time.
- hobs 5y ago> I can imagine an indigenous woman having a fling with a viking and just rasing the kid in her village. No one the wiser. Except everyone who saw the kid?
- 999900000999 5y agoMany mixed raced people can pass as being completely apart of one race. I imagine a Norwegian/Indigenous American kid could just look Indigenous American.
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- anthk 5y agoIn Northern Spain sometimes you could even distinguish if someone who crossed behind you was an Spaniard, Portuguese, French or half-German over the day. Heck, I can put several people in a photo from the North, the inner Castilles, the Eastern Mediterranean, Andalusia and Canary Islands and you could never, ever say every one in that photo would be from Spain. We have been invaded over so many times from European tribes that we are utterly mixed.
- desktopninja 5y agoCouldn't agree more. Human migration and mixing has always happened. Look at any trade route and you'll see it clear as day. Concepts like race are a fantastical vanity construct (things that should never have taken a foot hold during the Enlightenment period). Really it's tribalism. Our view of what a viking looked like is a very romanticized image of a "blond blue eyed" person: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/science/vikings-DNA.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/science/vikings-DNA.html Just like what an Asian looks like or an African or an American (both North, everything in between and South :) ) ... and than funny word Caucasian
- golemiprague 5y agoHispanic is not a race, it is a combination of geographical and cultural denomination loosely defined by the USA perception of the lands south to their border.
- selimthegrim 5y agoMy (Punjabi) great grandfther told the Census takers this in the twenties in Detroit. Worked like a charm apparently.
- anthk 5y agoHispanic can be any race. Blacks in Cuba/Haiti, white in Argentina/Spain, mostly mixed across the pond, native South American, some Japanese descendants in Peru...