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potato_hamster on 02 March 2018
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Pemalite said:
potato_hamster said:

You can? So my friend who grew up in Iceland and had a German father an Indonesian mother, and looks more Native American than anything else. You could tell his ancestry is German and Indonesian by his photo? You'd be the first. I have another friend whose skin tone is significantly darker than his brother who has the same mother and father as him. You wouldn't even know they're brothers just by looking at them they look so dissimilar.

This is why a sample size of one is absolutely terrible.

Of course modern influences have muddied the water which I have alluded to. Did you miss that part or something?

But if you disagree with the science that I have presented, the onus is on you to provide a better source.
Aka. "Put up or Shut up".

potato_hamster said:

No I didn't ignore it, because literally everyone has mixed heritage if you trace their family tree back far enough. It's a silly point.

And I acknowledged that people who have a mixed heritage is a common occurrence because of modern influences.

Again, I'm not disagreeing with the science you're presenting. It's just that it's not really that scientific. What you've presented arbitrarily draws a line in the sand and said "we're going to say that the people from this area and this date are going to be considered the indigenous people of that area, and this is their skin tone." Does that map look the same if you go back 500 years? or ahead 500 years? How about 1000 years in either direction?

For example. The predominant genetic traits of the average person living in modern day Egypt has changed dramatically in the past 2000 years. It's been invaded and controlled by multiple empires. So when we look at the "indigenous people of Egypt" are we looking at the skin tone of people before or after Egypt was invaded by Genghis Khan's Mongolian Empire? Or before or after Egypt was invaded by the  Persians? Italians? Ottomans? Arabs? French? Because all of those invasions affected what a modern day "indigenous Egyptian" looks like today.

So again, everyone is of mixed heritage if you trace their family tree back. Let's not pretend otherwise.