CNN: YOUR NOSE SHAPE and CLIMATE b
It's exactly as we suspected, our noses do reveal something about the climate that our ancestors lived in.
EXCERPT: They selected people from four populations: North Europeans, South Asians, East Asians and West Africans. Shriver and his team looked at 3-D photos of each individual and examined the width of the nostrils, the distance between nostrils, the height of the nose, nose ridge length, nose protrusion, external area of the nose and area of the nostrils.
Showing posts with label Race. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Race. Show all posts
16 May 2017
27 April 2011
THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE by NELL IRVIN PAINTER : BOOK REVIEW by ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY
I've been reading NELL IRVIN PAINTER's book "The History of White People" which is Copyright 2010 and published by W.W. Norton and Company. I'll be sprinking this blog with excerpts from that book here and there.
This is the story of European slavery ("Whites enslaving Whites"), class in Europe and America, which included indentured servants and slaves, and the notions of who was more worthy.
There was a progression of early theorists who decided that being low class had everything to do with intelligence and character as genetic; the "imbeciles" and "morons" and "the unfit" were the target of sterilization for the good of society. ( I note: This is the danger of genealogy motivated by snobbery!)
Painter does an excellent job of reporting the notions of race or ethnicity as individuals are considered to be of more or less worthy because of these notions. Racism was inherent in the descriptions of Europeans as "Nordic" or "Alpine" or "Mediterranean" as determined by physical features rather than country of origin.
This book may remind you of your own bad experiences or what your ancestors experienced because of their origins.
Perhaps they were considered of subnormal intelligence and not up to decent jobs because they were Italian or Slovak?
Are you yourself still experiencing intolerance and prejudice based, not on your character or deeds, but because of your ethnicity?
This is the story of European slavery ("Whites enslaving Whites"), class in Europe and America, which included indentured servants and slaves, and the notions of who was more worthy.
There was a progression of early theorists who decided that being low class had everything to do with intelligence and character as genetic; the "imbeciles" and "morons" and "the unfit" were the target of sterilization for the good of society. ( I note: This is the danger of genealogy motivated by snobbery!)
Painter does an excellent job of reporting the notions of race or ethnicity as individuals are considered to be of more or less worthy because of these notions. Racism was inherent in the descriptions of Europeans as "Nordic" or "Alpine" or "Mediterranean" as determined by physical features rather than country of origin.
This book may remind you of your own bad experiences or what your ancestors experienced because of their origins.
Perhaps they were considered of subnormal intelligence and not up to decent jobs because they were Italian or Slovak?
Are you yourself still experiencing intolerance and prejudice based, not on your character or deeds, but because of your ethnicity?
27 February 2010
ABOUT "COLOR"
ABOUT "COLOR"
Over time I've met a lot of people who want to find out if rumors that they are (their genetics that is) makes them part African-American, part Native American, part Jewish, or part Gypsy otherwise "not really White" or a person of "Color."
The reason they don't know for sure is that either their family members did not know, or they knew and kept it secret because these ethnic or racial aspects of their genetics were or are considered undesirable, even shameful. Now they look in the mirror and wonder.
I'm not trying to judge people who feel that they must keep it a secret that they are "part" of a group they can't relate to or maybe never even met. It may have been that by not telling the whole truth to children, the parents felt they were saving their children the hardships of prejudice which they themselves had experienced. It's no longer OK to call people names based on their ethnicity or race but many of us have memories of being around people who did call names, and thought nothing of it. Some people just thought that ethnic stereotypes were true.
For this reason, prejudice, ignorance, or covering truth, the reportage on census and other documents, birth, marriage, and death certificates may not be accurate.
I remember researching a family that came from North Carolina right near a Cherokee reservation and reading census page by page (which people who use databases tend not to bother with but which was standard operating procedure using microfilm) which really gave a sense of the neighborhood where a lot of families clearly stated off reservation that they were Cherokee, while others had children in categories of both White and Black rather that - it was later proven - just say they were Cherokee or of Native American descent. In some cases the genetic link to a Person of Color went back a couple generations. By this point the entire family was Baptist and socialized White. And various members of this family tree had stayed behind when the Trail of Tears happened while others helped round up the Indians to march.
It all reminds me of a Norman Rockwell painting of the red haired boy who has Cowboys and Indians in his heritage.
The reason they don't know for sure is that either their family members did not know, or they knew and kept it secret because these ethnic or racial aspects of their genetics were or are considered undesirable, even shameful. Now they look in the mirror and wonder.
I'm not trying to judge people who feel that they must keep it a secret that they are "part" of a group they can't relate to or maybe never even met. It may have been that by not telling the whole truth to children, the parents felt they were saving their children the hardships of prejudice which they themselves had experienced. It's no longer OK to call people names based on their ethnicity or race but many of us have memories of being around people who did call names, and thought nothing of it. Some people just thought that ethnic stereotypes were true.
For this reason, prejudice, ignorance, or covering truth, the reportage on census and other documents, birth, marriage, and death certificates may not be accurate.
I remember researching a family that came from North Carolina right near a Cherokee reservation and reading census page by page (which people who use databases tend not to bother with but which was standard operating procedure using microfilm) which really gave a sense of the neighborhood where a lot of families clearly stated off reservation that they were Cherokee, while others had children in categories of both White and Black rather that - it was later proven - just say they were Cherokee or of Native American descent. In some cases the genetic link to a Person of Color went back a couple generations. By this point the entire family was Baptist and socialized White. And various members of this family tree had stayed behind when the Trail of Tears happened while others helped round up the Indians to march.
It all reminds me of a Norman Rockwell painting of the red haired boy who has Cowboys and Indians in his heritage.
C 2010 Ancestry Worship - Genealogy
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