Just Be There Blog

studying

I've been spending time researching ancient history. That is, history of human groups before written documentation as surmised by anthropologists and archaeologists. I have in my possession several DVD lecture sets as well as texts in my personal library to compliment each other in my endeavors.
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What I really find interesting, is that when asked that question many people are interested in regarding heritage I have answered as my parents and grandparents have taught me to answer. My ancestry is Scotch/Irish and German. After my recent journey through the ancient beginnings of Northwestern Europe (Scandinavian Peninsula, British Isles and the European continent which includes France and Germany today), I can see that Scotch/Irish and German are really all the same. I've learned that the Picts, Angles, Jutes, Brits, Frisian, and Saxons all came from Germanic tribes. Point in fact, the German people today wouldn't be different from the French, English, Scots, Irish, Danes, Norwegian, or Swede if the Roman Empire hadn't conquered the area. The a fore mentioned "tribes" all migrated from central Germany as the glacial hold over Northern Europe melted away. I am over simplifying, of course, but point in fact, all the countries of NW Europe have come from the same heritage and linguistic root.

And then there is the migration out of Africa in the very far past...I guess I can say I am a very light skinned African. When you look back far enough into your personal lineage, prejudice against another person who looks, speaks, and behaves differently than yourself is very ignorant, indeed.