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Originally Posted by Marulus
I have what I would term a keen interest in my ancestors (the older I get the more),
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The contrary would have been surprising.
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but more for what they did or who they were than for their genetic composition. The interest in their phenotypical looks is not excluded though, on the contrary...
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Well, the genetic composition... We are not this versed in genetics, me think.
Only scientists would have an interest in it, as they can interpret it and we can't.
However, what is interesting to me, those are the interpretations in "facts" (rather a try of interpretation), and its "consequences". I find all this very fascinating. Don't deny it, we have all read those reports about DNA studies. That won't make a "racist" our of you.
It's true many Europeans are being complexed. I'm not.
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Originally Posted by M.R.
I don't need genetics to tell me who I am. I know that.
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I would bet I read this somewhere.
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How about nationalists who stick to traditional nationalism which doesn't have anything to do with genetics?
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It's fine with me. To me Tradition is evolutionary, so is History, it is not stuck forever in a period of time, otherwise you can't keep in touch with the real world. If I were to believe some Traditionalists, I should call myself a Frank (and Slovenians Slavics?
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Genetics is discipline of biology and rather a new thing. My heritage goes back centuries. The first thing people notice when they see me is not my 'genetics', but my face, in the same way I know nothing about genetic haplogroups or whatever of my friends..
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Yes, your face and your friends'. That was my point.
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At first sight I could consider many people who are not part of my heritage as possibly being part of it.
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It should be expected as you're not French. How could you understand, anyway? You live in a much preserved country with almost no aliens living there. Over here, yes I told you, the first thing to notice is a phenotype. You don't count aliens, you count natives. So yes, it's part of your heritage. The same way you bear a resemblance to your father and mother. That's a family heritage. Your people is your family.
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Originally Posted by M.R.
Giving money to Church it's like worse than spending it on whores and drugs...
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It happens that I give a little something to a Church (in the "poor"-box). It costs a lot to keep a patrimony in a good shape.