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Thread ID: 8782 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-08-05
2003-08-05 07:37 | User Profile
Posted by JohnJoyTree at [url=http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=80952]http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=80952[/url] but no references are posted:
The short summary of this is that Southern Europeans have always been darker than Northern Europeans, and this is due to climatic adaptation, not to non-white blood.
Whatever Kemp says, the impression you get from his book is wrong. There is a feeling after reading it that "Southern European = white european + North African". This is not the case.
Also it is not the case that we were once all blue-eyed blonds and then mixed with non-whites or something like that.
Europeans were probably darker in the distant past than they are now, and the ur-Europeans in the fringes of the continent (the Basques, Berbere and Black Irish) are darker than the newer strains.
Blond hair is quite recent, and started in the area of the East Baltic.
Basically Europeans are not a 100% uniform race, that is all.
There has been some gene flow across the Mediterranean (in both directions) but until quite recently the sheer numbers involved have been small.
Almost all the immigrants into Rome were from the north, and paler than the natives. It is true they bought the society down, but it was probably tottering because of internal troubles - too much taxation, a parasetic ruling class, and the destruction of the productive folk element.,