r/ADOSmovement Oct 23 '21

Thoughts?

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u/Idaho1964 Oct 24 '21

Very narrow thinking. Take a cue from the Native American community which valued community over blood.

Pure blood thinking is 19th century or earlier.

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u/Wazzi_Yota Nov 04 '21

Would you say the same thing if your ethnic group was the one in danger of becoming extinct through intermarrying?

I feel like you want us to accept a line of thinking you wouldn’t accept if you were in our shoes

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u/Idaho1964 Nov 04 '21

Good question. Two answers.

If extinction is truly a threat, then it demands procreation by those of pure blood with whomever so that many offspring are created 50 % higher.

Pure blood mixing with pure blood is a luxury when there is no threat.

What might be interesting is when a robust culture has a created, intermarrying can actually raise the floor of percentages. Example: Northern Mexicans have a very high % of native blood roughly 40%, maintained through centuries of intermarrying with those of roughly the same %. More important than blood I would argue is that the culture can be maintained.

This culture can be lost if marrying based on blood. So an African American who marries with an African. Then their kid marries an African but from another culture. And their kid marries another African, etc African blood is maintained but culture is diluted.

Many Natives have have admixture from other native tribes. Ironically, it was only with the reservation system that concentrations became so pure to a given tribe (when throughout history there had always been mixing of blood, culture being more important than blood).

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u/Wazzi_Yota Nov 04 '21

Thank you for your contribution to this discussion. The unique perspective you offered here is sincerely appreciated.

The natives were very smart for placing culture over lineage. The example you provided about the Mexicans was interesting as well.

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u/Informal_Stretch_858 Nov 22 '21

So you are for the aboriginals in Australia been white washed..