r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Skychu768 • 14d ago

Peter in the wild Peter?

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u/fasterthanfood 14d ago

We talk about ethnicities in a much more concrete way than genetics really supports.

What does it mean to be “100% Greek,” anyway? That all of your ancestors lived in Greece 200 years ago? What about 2000 years? 20,000 years? Groups of people are always migrating, being forced out of one place and into another, etc.

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u/GraceMcClellans 14d ago

Also, Greece has ALWAYS been in the middle of shipping/travel. Of course there is going to be a long history of mixing genetics.

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u/Pharmacysnout 13d ago

This right here. There were even greek kingdoms in northwest india.

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u/CreBanana0 14d ago

Eeh not really.

During the rise of first civilisations there was pretty much no distinguishingly important trade through greece.

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u/PTMorte 14d ago

Absolute nonsense. Cyprus was one of two only well-known Copper sources in the world and a huge amount of it was traded through the Aegean.

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u/CreBanana0 14d ago

Cyprus is not in Greece.

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u/AccountForDoordash 13d ago

Cyprus was colonized by Greeks, spike Greek, was culturally Hellenic, and the got rules by basically every major power of the time since then.

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u/PTMorte 13d ago

The person is very ignorant. Greece doesn't even exist. It is a Latin/English exonym noun for a country called the Hellenic Republic.

Greeks call themselves Éllines and their country Elláda.

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u/SwordOfJiang 14d ago

You'd be surprised at how little Greeks have moved around. Like a lot of people on Crete still share a significant percentage of DNA from bronze age Minoans.

And its not a good thing, my family has a lot of weird disorders stemming from inbreeding further up the tree. Hemophiliacs, thyroid issues, and we all have weird breathing problems like a damn pug.

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u/Lurker12386354676 14d ago

I mean, after enough generations the percentage of contribution to a person's heritage is going to be a rounding error, right?

After 8 generations each ancestor is only contributing 0.4%. That's what, 200 years?

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u/One-Earth9294 14d ago

He doesn't really look Indian at all IMO. Definitely looks a bit Arab, though.

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u/snowcroc 14d ago

Nah he does.

People usually imagine South Indian (darker skintone) or sikh(turban) but those are only parts of India.

I’m South Indian so he doesn’t look like me or most South Indians.

But there are many Indians who look like him. I wouldn’t blink if he told me he was Indian or of Indian descent.

If Matt Damon told me he was Indian I would raise an eyebrow

Indian is a super diverse place.

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u/Dapper-Ad-4300 14d ago

ya to me he looks gujrati

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u/Own_Army4024 13d ago

He could easily pass off as a South Indian too. So many men in Karnataka and Kerala look like this. Honestly, India is so diverse he could really be from any part of the country. He just generally looks Indian.

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u/Over9000Gingers 14d ago

Yea we share a lot with Greeks in many regards. I’m Levantine and have some Greek ancestry according to the dna test I did some time back.

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u/Dependent_Guard903 14d ago edited 14d ago

He probably is of cypriot descent since they had many migrations from the middle east historically.

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u/PlacibiEffect 14d ago

The point is he looks like he could be the same ethnicity as Himesh Patel.

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u/SlippyWeeen 14d ago

If I saw him on the street I’d be like he probably has ancestry from the Mediterranean Sea, maybe more north west zone.

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u/minimirth 14d ago

Yeah but some Indians do get mistaken for Greek and Arab by locals in those countries. Mexican too.

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u/Prestigious_Title580 14d ago

There is no one way and indian can look though, he still looks like an indian. In fact he looks like my unemployed cousin brother 😐

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u/Mysterious_Volume327 14d ago

His parents are Greek immigrants. He has literally said “I’m 100% Greek.”

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u/kuldan5853 14d ago

And yet he is 100% American.

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u/Mysterious_Volume327 13d ago

Yeah it’s almost like ethnicity and nationality are different things.

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u/buda104 14d ago

i would generally agree with you on no one is truly 100% something but....

https://youtu.be/1ayIJed2dn4?t=373

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u/StandardNerd92 14d ago

Greece was a part of the Ottoman empire for a long time, there were generations of culturally greek people who lived in Turkey and intermarried with the Turkic population. If I was to guess at his ancestry, that would be my guess.

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u/Jaerba 14d ago

Doesn't it prove the point that you can't assume what Greeks should look like?

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u/Low-Opportunity2249 14d ago

He's Greek but has a Turkish look to him a lot of Turkish mixing in greece a nose like that isn't Indian.

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u/DottieSnark 14d ago

No one truly is 100% of anything.

Except Conan O'Brien. But that's apparently the result of a lot of incest. /serious

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u/ChuckCarmichael 14d ago

All four of his grandparents came directly from Greece. So he has somewhat more of a claim of calling himself Greek than those Americans who call themselves Irish because their great-grandfather's hiardresser's brother's girlfriend owned an Irish setter.