Re: Black Etruscans?

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:53:31 +0100, Hayabusa <peregrine@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:49:51 +1300, Eric Stevens
><eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:34:11 -0600, "deowll" <deowll@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>wrote:
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>>>Some of those Berbers are Germans.
>>>
>>So what. No doubt some of those Germans are Berbers.
>>
>
>Neither nor, with all due respect. The Germans are a modern people.
>What you are talking about are the Germanic tribes or even their
>proto-ancestors. These Germanics are appx. as German as the Celts are
>British, or the Romans are Italian.
>
>I ask you to use different terminology for ancient and modern people.
>The subject does matter because of certain ideological aberrations
>involving precisely this terminology 70 years ago which we can live
>very well without.
>
My apologies. I didn't intend to push your buttons. In fact, I didn't
even know those ones were there.

My original reference was merely intended to illustrate the fact that
inhabitants of north Africa can be as white as those of Europe.



Eric Stevens

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