Расизму - нет! - Сказал мудрец брадатый

[i_eron]

Говорят, будто все китайцы - на одно лицо. Это, конечно, глупости. Каждый из нас лучше справляется с запоминанием и различением тех сортов лиц, к которым привык. Китайцы легче различают людей из Восточной Азии, чем европейцев, а многие израильтяне называют блондинами всех, у кого волосы хоть немного светлее чёрного. Шалтай-Болтай был совершенно

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[i_eron]

1. Our explanations are not mutually exclusive and may be both right to some extent. I am not disputing a degree of racial segregation in the "steppe". I just fail to believe that this alone can explain the "racial purity" of the Chinese, based on the historical facts and my interpretations of them. On the other hand, such a deep mass killing of a dense sedentary population would inescapably result in an a more racially pure society of survivors. It is human nature.

2. History is an "inexact" science so my "facts" may one day be overturned as "old wives' tales" by genetics. Yet I shall be slow to switch. As I told you, all these Y-DNA papers do not fully convince me. I promise to read more and one day understand them better. They follow just one (all-paternal) ancestor line. Over 10 generations it becomes a mere 0.1% of the whole story. Over 20 generations it is insignificant. One extraordinary (or just lucky) life may completely mess up the conclusions. For example, our friend Genghis (as did his relatives) has met (by historical accounts :-)) so many women, that a full 8% of men over his domain (15 million men) now share his Y-DNA. Yet his personal influence over the _appearance_ of modern Asians is still negligible, he is just one of many ancestors for each of them. There might have been male segregation. But genetics itself shows in this example that overall segregation was not in the habit of the nomads.