NarcissusSavage wrote:
aghogday wrote:
Interesting description from the early 20th century, when the idea was well known and accepted.
Quote:
Among all the disputes and uncertainties of the ethnographers about the races of Europe, one fact stands out clearly — namely, that we can distinguish a race of northerly distribution and origin, characterized physically by fair colour of hair and skin and eyes, by tall stature and dolichocephaly (i.e. long shape of head), and mentally by great independence of character, individual initiative, and tenacity of will. Many names have been used to denote this type, ... . It is also called the Nordic type.[46]
This
mythical race was identified within the geography of historical Northern Europeans, identified as having Occipital Buns.
I am
not mythical, and fit that description. That is all.
Just, quoting Wiki; accidentally left off the source for that. I fit the individual description too, and am also not mythical as an individual. The myth of the early 20th Century, was that the "Nordic type" was a race, and described as a "Master Race", separate, from the rest of European Caucasians. The ideology has been discredited since the 20th Century, and solidly debunked through science, through the study of genetics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_raceQuote:
Genetic reality
The emergence of population genetics further undermined the categorisation of Europeans into clearly defined racial groups. A 2007 study on the genetic history of Europe found that the most important genetic differentiation in Europe occurs on a line from the north to the south-east (northern Europe to the Balkans), with another east-west axis of differentiation across Europe, separating the "indigenous" Basques and Sami from other European populations. Despite these stratifications it noted the unusually high degree of European homogeneity: "there is low apparent diversity in Europe with the entire continent-wide samples only marginally more dispersed than single population samples elsewhere in the world."[91][92][93][94]
Those ethnic groups formerly considered racially pure nordic or mostly Nordic are shown in modern research to be a composition of different European lineages. The Nordic or other phenotypes do not correlate or recombine with any particular direct blood lines, even from those of non-European origin.[95]
19 Feb 2012, 2:26 am
