The one thing that all long-lived ethnic diaspora and indigenous communities (>1000 years) have in common is a strong cultural emphasis on a refusal to intermarry and assimilate. The reason that there are no Hittites or Olmeks around anymore is not that they were all killed. It's that their descendants saw no great value in staying distinct. Swedes in the US around 1900 were also spectacularly bad at this. 😄
#ethnicity #migration
Martin Rundkvist
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