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Jesus what is with the racial diversity?
Its so distracting as it is noticeably unrealistic if you have even the most basic understanding of anthropology and genealogy.
Play a drinking game. Drink a shot every time two people of the same race are in the same shot. You will be largely sober by the end.
How the hell can you go to a small village town in the middle of buttfuck nowhere and have everyone look like they are from the oppposite ends of the planet? Especially with their technological constraints (no railways, no phones). Can you imagine, in 2021, going to a far-flung village in the south of India in with a population of 200 and you realize each family is a different race. You got a European family, an aboriginal one, a chinese one, and the Cherokees live over there. WTF IS GOING ON.
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If you try really hard you can come up with an anthropological solution involving the differing cultural norms of that universe but they never even try and even if they did it'd be next to impossible to come up with a truly 'scientific' solution.
You can see this when you compare it to a real historical counterpart and you start to realize the sort of conditions you need for the sort of genepools you see on the show. If you observe the cultures of the Steppe nomads (pre-15th century), they often looked racially mixed and each little nomadic settlement varied greatly in the genetic sense. For example it is said that Genghis Khan may have had red hair. You may go to a little village of horse herders where everyone looks more East Asian but has blond hair. Then the next nomadic group living slightly further west may look more Turkic and have extremely hairy arms or something. These groups live right next to each other but only a generation or two ago would have been a thousand miles apart.
Because these people were nomadic and constantly on the move so they were highly likely to interbreed with people from distant lands. Their genepool was always in flux. Basically imagine a bunch of kingdoms but the castles are on wheels so these societies can always move around and find a new piece of land settle. One day they may live in the West next to Scythians, the next theyll be further east rubbing up against Tartars. But even in the Steppes there wasnt the same level of multiculturalism within each settlement as what we see on the show. More so a lot of geneological variety between settlements.
You never see this sort of distance covered with interbreeding in a settled village society. At most youll marry someone from the next village over. The only way you could explain this away is that their world is extremely interconnected like ours in the 21st century which technologically is clearly not the case. Even if it was, the people would interbreed and eventually make a new singular genepool which was created based on the genes of the previously seperate cultures that interbred in that settlement. They wouldnt continue to stay racially diverse for more than a few generations. It may take a little longer in large cities as there is a bigger sample of people to create a subcommunity with but the rule still applies.
The only solution to make this cultural diversity more prolonged is an extremely dark and racist one. That people who move from a distant land to a new one never interbreed with the local population. A bit like jews who were often not allowed to interbreed with Europeans hence why their culture survived independently. So what happens is you may have a village of a 1000 people but the 3 asian families only interbreed with asians (whether from their current village, nearby villages, or on rare occasions from a distant land), the whites with only whites, arabs with only arabs, and so on.
So yea this tv show is unintentionally endorsing Mein Kampf.
Its so distracting as it is noticeably unrealistic if you have even the most basic understanding of anthropology and genealogy.
Play a drinking game. Drink a shot every time two people of the same race are in the same shot. You will be largely sober by the end.
How the hell can you go to a small village town in the middle of buttfuck nowhere and have everyone look like they are from the oppposite ends of the planet? Especially with their technological constraints (no railways, no phones). Can you imagine, in 2021, going to a far-flung village in the south of India in with a population of 200 and you realize each family is a different race. You got a European family, an aboriginal one, a chinese one, and the Cherokees live over there. WTF IS GOING ON.
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If you try really hard you can come up with an anthropological solution involving the differing cultural norms of that universe but they never even try and even if they did it'd be next to impossible to come up with a truly 'scientific' solution.
You can see this when you compare it to a real historical counterpart and you start to realize the sort of conditions you need for the sort of genepools you see on the show. If you observe the cultures of the Steppe nomads (pre-15th century), they often looked racially mixed and each little nomadic settlement varied greatly in the genetic sense. For example it is said that Genghis Khan may have had red hair. You may go to a little village of horse herders where everyone looks more East Asian but has blond hair. Then the next nomadic group living slightly further west may look more Turkic and have extremely hairy arms or something. These groups live right next to each other but only a generation or two ago would have been a thousand miles apart.
Because these people were nomadic and constantly on the move so they were highly likely to interbreed with people from distant lands. Their genepool was always in flux. Basically imagine a bunch of kingdoms but the castles are on wheels so these societies can always move around and find a new piece of land settle. One day they may live in the West next to Scythians, the next theyll be further east rubbing up against Tartars. But even in the Steppes there wasnt the same level of multiculturalism within each settlement as what we see on the show. More so a lot of geneological variety between settlements.
You never see this sort of distance covered with interbreeding in a settled village society. At most youll marry someone from the next village over. The only way you could explain this away is that their world is extremely interconnected like ours in the 21st century which technologically is clearly not the case. Even if it was, the people would interbreed and eventually make a new singular genepool which was created based on the genes of the previously seperate cultures that interbred in that settlement. They wouldnt continue to stay racially diverse for more than a few generations. It may take a little longer in large cities as there is a bigger sample of people to create a subcommunity with but the rule still applies.
The only solution to make this cultural diversity more prolonged is an extremely dark and racist one. That people who move from a distant land to a new one never interbreed with the local population. A bit like jews who were often not allowed to interbreed with Europeans hence why their culture survived independently. So what happens is you may have a village of a 1000 people but the 3 asian families only interbreed with asians (whether from their current village, nearby villages, or on rare occasions from a distant land), the whites with only whites, arabs with only arabs, and so on.
So yea this tv show is unintentionally endorsing Mein Kampf.
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