Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative
by discreteevent on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:23PM
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Also a large genetic component of the Irish population is shared with people in the Iberian peninsula.
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Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative
by Veen on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:29AM
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Yes, but the Iberian migration was just an earlier example of a long history of migrations and colonizations going back millennia. There was a time when the British Isles weren't populated by Homo Sapiens, and migrating people's found the lands empty (except for the occasional band of Neanderthals), but it's deep in pre-history and since then migration has almost always involved some level of population replacement and/or subjugation by new elites.