GENEALOGY-DNA-L Archives

From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Germanic invaders may not have ruled by apartheid
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:01:35 -0600
References: <f3f05ce80804221733u270abd5ficc3a8f577da4b731@mail.gmail.com><BAY111-DAV342711660729F4D4A5139B1E30@phx.gbl><59b617a00804230650n711c131fh887d345649f6ec9f@mail.gmail.com>

Please, talking about tax codes and "absurdity" in the same sentence is so
tempting for wandering back into the present....... and so close to 15
April.

----- Original Message -----
From: "MaryJo Neyer" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Germanic invaders may not have ruled by apartheid


> Lawrence is absolutely right regarding the absurd twisting of the tax
> codes
> imposed on the native Britons by the Saxons. Its purpose was clearly to
> enhance the familial power of the Saxons.
> Mary Jo
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Lawrence Mayka <> wrote:
>
>> The article proposes a "novel" (i.e., absurd) interpretation of what is
>> and
>> isn't discrimination. Here's one example:
>> ---
>> While the Anglo-Saxon King Ine of Wessex did formulate a code that
>> imposed
>> heavier taxes on native Britons than Saxons, for example, this might have
>> been intended to encourage reluctant Britons to fully adopt the new
>> Germanic
>> culture and language, and to label themselves "Germanic", rather than to
>> penalise an underclass, Pattison argues.
>> ---
>>
>> Today this is known as ethnocide (the less emotional term) or cultural
>> genocide (the term used by the United Nations and others).
>>
>> With respect to yDNA, it is obvious that any form of discrimination based
>> on
>> culture will reduce the reproductive competitiveness of that culture's
>> men.
>> Or phrased another way, a woman of that culture will tend to marry _out_
>> of
>> it in order to protect her future children from such discrimination and
>> generally to enhance their prospects. The net result over time will be a
>> shrinking of the oppressed culture's yDNA percentage.
>>
>> > [mailto:] On Behalf Of
>> > Dienekes Pontikos
>> > http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn13752-german
>> ic-invaders-may-not-have-ruled-by-apartheid.html<http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn13752-germanic-invaders-may-not-have-ruled-by-apartheid.html>;
>>
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------
>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to
>> with the word 'unsubscribe' without
>> the
>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message
>>
>
> -------------------------------
> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to
> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the
> quotes in the subject and the body of the message
>

This thread:

• [DNA] Germanic invaders may not have ruled by apartheid by "Dienekes Pontikos" <>
  • Re: [DNA] Germanic invaders may not have ruled by apartheid by "Lawrence Mayka" <>