Does that account for the entire former east-bloc or just Bulgaria?
Bedouini?
I guess being a Sicilian would be by default being a mongrel Greek/Poeni/Roman/Arab/Norman/Spanish mongrel, whether you could possibly call that 'white' is anyone's guess; as for the rest of Southern Italy, I think they are somewhat less ethnically diverse.
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A country that considers itself, its past conduct, and its viewpoint of history above criticism and reproach... An obvious hallmark of a just, honest and fair society right there..
@Juve Vinny You should read a book called 'Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance'.
1: Well that is why, from my understanding, the genocide orchestrated by the 3rd Reich against Jews in Europe is commonly referred to as the 'Holocaust'; whilst the Armenian genocide is just that, a 'Genocide' by definitional. However, merely calling it an 'Armenian' genocide really does artificially limit the scope of the massacre conducted by the Turk in Anatolia; approximately an equal number of Greeks perished at this time, as well as countless Kurds, Assyrians and other Christian Arab communities that resided in the carcass of the Ottoman Empire at that time.
2: Maybe the deportation was a pretext to the systematic execution of these minority communities (who's respective existence, for the record, pre-dated the Turks in the region by over a thousand years). If what happened to the Greeks/Armenians/Kurds in Turkey wasn't a genocide, then I don't know what is... Even Hitler referred to as much in his book Mein Kampf, and that bloke knew a thing or two about genocides himself..
1: In what sense do you mean when you say that ? In my opinion, it is in denying responsibility, refuting fact, and shying away from the realities of historical occurrence whilst indoctrinating an entire nation of peoples to think a certain way about a given topic is a far more backward way of thinking.. Given that Turkey has laws that prohibit criticism of Ataturk, and Turkey itself, is an eminently obvious indicator that as a country, Turkey is not willing to look at themselves in the mirror and not only confess their collective wrong doing, but to also admit to a failed policy of grand delusion, coupled with a total lack of responsibility in accepting its dark past, just as Germany was forced to post WWII.
2: The notion of 'nations' and 'people' being a modern one is not true my friend. You could say maybe patriotism, and nationalism (in their modern forms) are an innovation of the modern era (post renaissance) absolutely. However, one doesn't have to look far to see that peoples and civilisations of the past, had no issue at all in distinguishing themselves from others. The Egyptians were one of the first, then the Greeks, closely followed by the Romans thought themselves heads and shoulders above their barbarous neighbours; even in the Orient, the Chinese considered themselves distinct from their more uncultured northern neighbours. For as long as communities of peoples have existed, they have attempting (with some justification) to draw distinctions (both accurate and inaccurate) between themselves and others, it is not trivial in any way, just a truth of history; the very term 'Barbarian' and its application by ancient writers itself speaks volumes in relation to this point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Islam_(Ottoman_Empire)
With all respect mate I do read books; I've just moved house recently but I have read books that canvass that issue. 'Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance' by Giles Milton, as some background regarding Byzantine-Turkish backgrounds I read 'Byzantium' by Judith Herrin as well as 'A History of the Arab Peoples' by Albert Hourani and 'A Brief History of the Crusades: Islam and Christianity in the Struggle for World Supremacy' by Geoffrey Hindley. Sorry I can't be more in depth as the majority of my literature is still in boxes, however I find it ludicrous to see that Germany was forced to search for it's very soul, and sought repentance from the world for its heinous crimes, yet Turkey not only fails in this, but pretends that such a thing never happened. I'm sorry but such a stance is intellectually dishonest to its very core! You may criticise the content of my post, and perhaps even its perspective, but you cannot say what I stated before was historically incorrect; which in the end, is what matters.
In the end it is a reality of geo-politics, as well as attempting to bring a degree of historical integrity into the argument of Israel/Palestine. The Israel/Palestine scenario is not one which is simple, easy or clear-cut, nor should it be made overly trivial or contrived (which I fear a great amount of the debate regarding this topic is); also, people's scope of it is too small when regarding Israel and it's neighbours. One must see things from a broader cultural and geographical perspective, that in order to draw an accurate conclusion, one cannot just look at a map of Israel/Judea/Palestine, but to look at it in the broader context of it as a struggle between Christian culture/peoples, Islamic culture/peoples and Jewish culture/peoples, and likewise, it existing as an immense and prolonged struggle between Christian, Muslim and Jewish worlds. Trivialise my statements to your hearts content, but you cannot take away the truth that lies within the broader context of the topic.
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