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Tom Herzog's avatar

Perhaps I can explain why Finns might not be considered "white." They pretty obviously appear as fair as their neighbors across the Baltic, the Swedes and Norwegians. The latter speak Germanic languages in the Indo-European language family. Other languages in this large family are English, Italian, Spanish, German, etc. In fact with three exceptions all languages spoken in Europe are Indo-European.

The three exceptions are Finnish, Hungarian and Basque. (One might include Turkish also in the far south east.) Finnish and Hungarian have been traced to a language family in Central Asian, Ural-Altaic. The Huns (I believe related to the Magyars) brought their language and culture to the Hungarian plain along the Danube in Central Europe centuries ago. History buffs will recall that Attila the Hun was the "scourge of Rome" (c. 500 A.D. if memory serves me.)

So while the Finns appear as "white" as their Scandinavian neighbors the Finnish language is quite different from the Germanic-Scandinavian languages. The Finnish language has roots in Central Asia.

The Basque people of far north-east Spain and south-west France speak a language that is generally grouped with the Berber language of the Atlas Mountains of north Africa. It is somewhat speculatively thought that this group of languages might be the original European language that the Cro-Magnon people brought to Europe as the original Homo Sapien inhabitants. (The predecessors of the Cro-Magnon were the Neanderthal who seem to have been a different species of human and of whom there is much speculation among archaeologist as to whether they did or did not use language and if they did essentially nothing is known about it at this point.)

The Turks also speak a non-Indo-European language. Turkish is also a language from central Asia but probably originating even farther east than Ural-Altaic. Turkish appears to have some distant relationship to Korean and Japanese.

I flew to the Philippines on Turkish Airlines and when the stewardesses made announcements first in Turkish then in English, Turkish sounded similar to Scandinavian to me (with a lilting inflection) but obviously it is not.

When I was in Istanbul, as a sort of joke for the history minded, I wanted to ask one of the stewardesses if I could find Suleiman the Magnification's phone number in the Istanbul phone directory. I feared she might report me as a potential terrorist and thought it best to keep my mouth shut.

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Frank Drevin's avatar

Isn't it weird that the people who most want an ethnostate want every other country to be part of a great globalist blob where all non-chosen people are interchangeable cogs to be used up by the machine and thrown away?

Hey, do an internet search for "ethnostate" and see what pops up. Well, I guess they do control the media and now our search engines.

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