You're spot on. If you transported an average dweller of the Greek, Roman, Persian, Byzantine, or Islamic empire into our day and time, perhaps they would be in

You're spot on. If you transported an average dweller of the Greek, Roman, Persian, Byzantine, or Islamic empire into our day and time, perhaps they would be in shock as to how many sons of Japheth are walking around, and even refuse to leave their home -- not as "racism" as understood today, but more like collective PTSD, or cultural/ancestral memory. Go look at some artists' renderings of Brennus' invasion of Athens, or the Huns' invasion of Rome for a visual. For proof, consider that all the great ancient civilizations of the world built enormous walls along their Northern border to keep out the ancestors of the current ruling class, whom they often referred to by the Biblical or Qur'anic name, "Gog and Magog" -- before they were referred to as Vikings.