Category: Ethnicity
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Faces of women of the world
I’m going to use Midjourney to add art to my Substack, but sometimes you get obsessed with stuff. I decided to generate images of female faces with the prompt: beautiful [ethnicity/nationality] woman, portrait, photograph, cinematic, white wall Then I picked what I thought was the most neutral face focused of the four images. I upscaled…
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They forgot who they were?
Right now I am working on a piece about Romani for my Substack. The first clear mention of Romani in Europe is in Crete in 1322. This is certainly postdated their arrival, but there is a good amount of circumstantial linguistic and genetic evidence that they left the Indian subcontinent not much earlier than 1000…
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How the Irish became white
There is more than some truth to the country’s folklore
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How the Irish became white
There is more than some truth to the country’s folklore
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How the Irish became white
There is more than some truth to the country’s folklore
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How the Irish became white
There is more than some truth to the country’s folklore
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On ethnicity
A really strange conversation on ethnicity broke out below. The primacy of lots of different variables was argued. My family arrived in the USA ~1980 when there were not too many South Asians compared to today. Additionally, they have lived in major urban areas, small towns, and medium-sized cities. My parents grew up in (East)…
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When genetics comes in handy in politics
In Mother Jones Andrew Serwer has a long profile up of a Mitt Romney adviser who has associations with Lebanese Christian sectarian radicals. This section jumped out at me: Régina Sneifer, who served in the Fifth Bureau in 1981 at the age of 18, remembers attending lectures where Phares told Christian militiamen that they were…
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When genetics comes in handy in politics
In Mother Jones Andrew Serwer has a long profile up of a Mitt Romney adviser who has associations with Lebanese Christian sectarian radicals. This section jumped out at me: Régina Sneifer, who served in the Fifth Bureau in 1981 at the age of 18, remembers attending lectures where Phares told Christian militiamen that they were…
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America in 2050 may still be majority white
I have expressed some skepticism at the idea that in the year 2050 the United States of America will perceive itself as a majority-minority nation; that is, non-Hispanic whites will be be a minority. This projection is repeated and asserted so often that it’s a plausible background assumption when you’re making a model of the…