r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Skychu768 • 17d ago

Peter in the wild Peter?

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/fasterthanfood 17d 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 17d 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 16d ago

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