Re: Aryans and Aryans
Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Sat, 28 Dec 1996 15:53:05 -0500
Anton Sherwood wrote:
>
> 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?
>
All Indo-European language groups are derived from various tribes or
waves of what is known as the Aryan Migration. THis occured over several
millenia, and originated out of central Asia where the whole blonde blue
eyed genome originated. WHile Iranians, Pakistanis, etc are Aryan, so
are Sicilians and SOuthern Italians (who were turned dark by later
migrations of people from northern africa). The present "darkness" of
such aryan groups is more a measure of the intermixture of Indonesian,
African, Semitic, and native Indian strains with the original nomads.
The most remote locations reached by Aryan groups, i.e. ireland,
britain, and scandinavia, were considered to be the most "pure" aryans
by the Nazis, as they had the least amount of homogenization with other
ethnic groups. While such groups are also the most geographically
distant from the points of their Aryan origins, leading groups with less
"pedigree" but closer geographic proximity to claim greater "Aryanness",
the northern european groups have closer genomic similarity to the
original Aryan nomads.
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