If Turks are not white, what are they?

**Abaddon** · 02-23-2024, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by Smeagol

Nope. Read Coon's chapter on Turks in Races of Europe.

Genetics>>>>>random anthro boomer

**Smeagol** · 02-23-2024, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by The Machiavellian

Genetics>>>>>random anthro boomer

Physical anthropology is much more useful than genetics. Also, boomer? Coon was born in 1904.

**Abaddon** · 02-23-2024, 01:24 PM

Originally Posted by Smeagol

Physical anthropology is much more useful than genetics.

No, its not.

Anthropology is based only on your looks, while genetics is way more relevant when labelling someone's ethnicity.

**Smeagol** · 02-23-2024, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by The Machiavellian

No, its not.

Anthropology is based only on your looks, while genetics is way more relevant when labelling someone's ethnicity.

Genetics can hardly tell me anything I don't already know from reading Coon's books. Most genes don't even have any racial significance. At best they can confirm theories people like Coon came up with decades ago.

**Abaddon** · 02-23-2024, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by Smeagol

Genetics can hardly tell me anything I don't know from reading Coon's books.

Maybe because you are a layman.

Originally Posted by Smeagol

Most genes don't even have any racial significance. At best they can confirm theories people like Coon came up with decades ago.

Like Spaniards being the same thing as arabs?

**Smeagol** · 02-23-2024, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by The Machiavellian

Like Spaniards being the same thing as arabs?

This is not a claim that Coon made.

**Abaddon** · 02-23-2024, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by Smeagol

This is not a claim that Coon made.

He did it, or at least put arabs and spaniards in the same group.

**Smeagol** · 02-23-2024, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by The Machiavellian

He did it.

Where? Quote it.

**Abaddon** · 02-23-2024, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by Smeagol

Where? Quote it.

Chapter XI "The Mediterranean World"

According to him, in this same chapter, gypsies are meds

**Smeagol** · 02-23-2024, 01:43 PM

Originally Posted by The Machiavellian

Chapter XI "The Mediterranean World"

According to him, in this same chapter, gypsies are meds

Now, if you had actually read the whole chapter you would have seen the great differences he ascribes to many of the various peoples he talks about in the "Mediterranean world." For example, Coon includes East Africa in the chapter because of the Mediterranean racial influences present there, but he would certainly not have argued that Spaniards or any Europeans were closer to East Africans as a whole than to any other Europeans.

You are criticizing a book and a body of work that you haven't read.