Races,blood,tribes...HOW IDIOTIC!!?

Question

Isn't it a bit silly to say in the 21st cent. that you "belong to the tribe of eatern Whatever", or "come from the long line of BlahBlah Dukes", or you have "yellow-pink-cuban-yugoslavian" blood- ???!!

I mean NOONE is "original", there is no such thing,not even in traces!! We don't even know the love life of our grandmothers! And people migrate and mix since the beggining of the world?

Can anyone seriously uses this stuff as an argument???

Answer 1

Calm down. Either state your question more coherently or rant somewhere else. Some people take their heritage more seriously than others. Some people are proud of their lineage. I couldn't care less about it. I am a white American, my wife is Korean, and we have a beautiful daughter. If you judge others who take pride in their racial purity and look down on others, then you are no better than they are. Think about it.

Answer 2

I dunno, modern DNA tests give a good idea of your ancestry.

Apparently they can tell groups apart just fine.

Answer 3

Modern DNA testing can say exactly where your ancestors came from 14,000 years ago or further  back,  and even down to which of about 7 women you descended from!

Answer 4

Yes. Tribal Africans can. For any number of generations their languages, their family lineage and everything remains the same. For example, you can tell that Tutunkhaman (Tutu Ankoma) was the ancestor of Bishop Tutu simply by his name. It does not matter if he lived 3000 years ago. In many tribes, as long as he mixed -  even with other African tribes, except for acceptable inter marriage, he would not be able to return to his bloodline. Most Afro Americans would not be recognized by any tribe. I can track my lineage back to the Assin, but I know they would not see me as Assin because my grandfather was Scottish. Even Biblical patriarchs with African names have unique tribes. Every member of Abrehams family had a Kwahu name. They could not have come from any other tribe in Africa. And his name tells his story. Abreham is actually a phrase.

Peace.

Answer 5

While these are all artificial terms, there are scientific markers that distinguish certain groups of people from others. This is even more true in the age of genetic knowledge and DNA, which can tell a person's heritage by their genes. However, there is a lot of controversy here as the labels are not hard and fast lines, but rather different ways to understand the human race as a whole.

Answer 6

I dont believe that we all migrated and mixed from the begging of time. I believe that early on in mankind we were all located in out own territories. Most of the people didn't even know other raises existed bc people didn't travel that much. I dont think people started migrating and mixing until much later. In the olden days people would be very proud of their family history and would wear their family's crest of Honor in battle. Now a days your right, everyone is mixed and no one is original. But back then things where much much different.

Answer 7

In some cultures it's important to show respect to your ancestors, so the least you can do is acknowledge them. It's also just naturally interesting to a lot of people, and important to a lot of people who were in many cases not taught to be proud of their heritage when they were growing up- because racism was much stronger in the past, people were taught to hide any minority heritage if they could.