East Med Badman 🏝📿 🇬🇷🇵🇸

Descendant of Greek refugees from Asia Minor and I can’t let their story die. Greek Anatolian / Islander Σα ξένα είμαι Έλληνας και σην Ελλάδαν ξένος

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In Istanbul, some friends were singing an old Turkish song “Aman Doktor” in a restaurant.

A Greek man walks up to the table and starts singing the same song in Greek (Greeks and Turks share many old folk songs)

At the end The 2 men showed great respect to eachother🇹🇷🇬🇷❤️

wow

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@PastaBandit0144 Your comprehension skills not so good.

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If casting non-Greeks in an ancient Greek story, these are the peoples Greek authors did and did not consistently describe as physically distinct from Greeks.

🔴 Consistently described as physically distinct

🟢 No inherited physical distinction described

⚪ Insufficient evidence

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@damian_highbury Show us

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@RossMxx They weren’t described described as such

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@Mixobarbaroi India is clearly in red. Meaning they were described as looking different. Read carefully before commenting.

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@quinn10264 Re-read what I wrote and then come back to the comments section.

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@PastaBandit0144 @Victory4ever12 Did you even read? None of that mentions physical appearance

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@PastaBandit0144 Firstly calm down. If you want to disprove something I post, take the emotion out.

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@deadmeds1453 The clothes can make a big difference 😂

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@deadmeds1453 You know what 😂

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@GeoffreyofAnjou No there was an idea that the name derived from that but not, never written any Greek person just a theory.

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This is basically a map of the British empire

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

Countries With The Highest Concentration Of Redheads

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@iAnonPatriot “Bruh”

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@DrewPavlou No matter how pro Australian you get, I’m glad your hairy Greek legs remind you who you are Greek man

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Both populations would have differed somewhat from their modern descendants. Also this was before the Slavic migrations into Greece, before the Arab conquest of Egypt, and before many later demographic changes under successive empires. That said, both ancient Greeks and ancient Egyptians were internally diverse. Ancient Greek authors did describe Egyptians as generally darker than Greeks, particularly in skin color, but they also recognized considerable variation within both populations. The blondest Greek and the darkest Egyptian would have looked very different, yet there was likely substantial overlap among many individuals in between.

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Maybe they did get the casting right

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Christopher Nolan expects audiences to believe this trip lasted 10 years

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@Victory4ever12 Feel free to correct

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As Greek literature suggests, immediate neighbors were generally not described as physically distinct enough to warrant consistent descriptions of inherited physical features, unlike Ethiopians (described as dark) or Celts (described as pale).

This is not because Greek authors never described the appearance of individuals from these peoples. They did. The point is that they did not attribute a distinctive inherited physical type to those ethnic groups. Instead, they overwhelmingly distinguished Italians, Persians, Levantines, Armenians, Assyrians, and many Anatolian peoples by their language, customs, religion, dress, and political identity rather than by inherited physical features.

For that reason, modern American racial politics should not use ancient Greek ethnography as a proxy for black vs white debates. Greek literature does not divide the ancient Mediterranean in the way modern racial categories do.

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@SecPam0 I think I know what you’re saying but I’m not sure can you clarify

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If they used Cypriot Turks I wouldn’t be mad at it

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The Odyssey, but because the casting and location is accurate, all the actors are Turkish