Re: Aryans and Aryans

Kathryn Aegis (aegis@igc.apc.org)
Fri, 27 Dec 1996 17:47:09 +0000


Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 10:29:19 -0800
From: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood)
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Aryans and Aryans
Reply-to: extropians@extropy.org

Kathryn Aegis writes
: [btw: you can tell by a person's coloring--yellow blonde hair and
: pale eyes means an Aryan influence, copper blonde hair and grey eyes
: means a Viking ancestry]

By "Viking" and "Aryan" do you mean Scandinavian and Continental Germanic?

I've always heard that "Aryan" as applied to Europeans is pure baloney
(it belongs properly to India and Iran). Am I behind the times?

Anton Sherwood *\\* +1 415 267 0685 *\\* DASher@netcom.com
(copper, blue)