Brutkey

Alexa Devreux-Swift
@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space

@forthy42@mastodon.net2o.de @StillIRise1963@mastodon.world if we go back to classical times, we will find that an awful lot of what was developed in Greece, which is arguably the root of European civilisation, much of what was developed there was a syncretisation of many ideas, cultures and technology from across the Mediterranean region and that means the Levant, Near East and North Africa.

I am not sure that I can think of ANYTHING that is exclusively white European culture only, any more than we can genuinely say that there is anything that is exclusive to any one cultural group.

Bernd Paysan R.I.P Natenom 🕯️
@forthy42@mastodon.net2o.de

@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @StillIRise1963@mastodon.world The key element in successful cultural development is exchange.

Alexa Devreux-Swift
@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space

@forthy42@mastodon.net2o.de @StillIRise1963@mastodon.world precisely. And this is just one reason why white supremacy and racism makes absolutely no sense and has to be pushed back against.

Racist white supremacist bigots have to be challenged as their behaviour simply does not belong in a civilised society.

And of course we can prove that the first Europeans were actually black or brown, had dark eyes and black hair, and that the development of light hair, blue eyes and white skin is quite recent and due to the development of agriculture in Europe, which resulted of foods deficient in vitamin D.

So, white people are actually the ones with recessive genes which arose as a result of genetic mutations to account for deficient early European agriculture! Although that is a VERY simplistic way of looking at something that is far far more complex.

Bernd Paysan R.I.P Natenom 🕯️
@forthy42@mastodon.net2o.de

@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @StillIRise1963@mastodon.world Interestingly, Neanderthals had their own MC1R gene variants, which means there where fair skinned and red haired Neanderthals, but modern humans, despite inheriting something from them have their own MC1R gene variants.

So it didn't provide enough advantage early on. Modern humans were still black when the Neanderthals vanished.

Alexa Devreux-Swift
@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space

@forthy42@mastodon.net2o.de @StillIRise1963@mastodon.world well, modern Europeans were, and Neanderthals were mostly concentrated in Europe with the potentially related Denisovans concentrated in Asia.

It would seem that Europeans were black or brown even after the end of the late Ice Age, and possibly as recently as 6000 YBP, if figures I have heard are correct.