04-10-2022, 04:48 AM
I think analyzing your last name is a good idea, generally these days it is easy to figure out which ethnic group it is related to. Your dad's dad's dad's name was imposed over the wifes last name over a long period of time in most places.
When I read about a country or want to understand a group of people I look at their ethnicity because it tells you about their genetics, I think of the language they speak, and what religion they or their grandparents were.
I then try to understand which other ethnic group they generally interact with. For example, looking at the continent of Africa, Italian, Portugese, English, and French are spoken. There are other languages but even Nigeria surprisingly speaks English.
This means that Europeans of certain ethnic groups interacted with certain ethnic groups of Africa over time, and for whatever reason, that was the destiny of those groups of people to intermingle. It is very unlikely for example that someone from Kazahkstan ever visited or intermingled with people in Germany hundreds of years ago as an example. If so, it was a rare thing. Their languages were not interchanged, people did not marry. The genetic and linguistic groups did not have a destiny together.
It's all like a soul-swarm of language, genetics, and religion considering religion was just the norm back then. In Europe it was something akin to being a heretic kicked out of society if you were not with a church in a time like the 1500s. Thankfully it isn't that way today, but even 200-300 years ago it would be unusual for someone to claim they had no religion.
When I read about a country or want to understand a group of people I look at their ethnicity because it tells you about their genetics, I think of the language they speak, and what religion they or their grandparents were.
I then try to understand which other ethnic group they generally interact with. For example, looking at the continent of Africa, Italian, Portugese, English, and French are spoken. There are other languages but even Nigeria surprisingly speaks English.
This means that Europeans of certain ethnic groups interacted with certain ethnic groups of Africa over time, and for whatever reason, that was the destiny of those groups of people to intermingle. It is very unlikely for example that someone from Kazahkstan ever visited or intermingled with people in Germany hundreds of years ago as an example. If so, it was a rare thing. Their languages were not interchanged, people did not marry. The genetic and linguistic groups did not have a destiny together.
It's all like a soul-swarm of language, genetics, and religion considering religion was just the norm back then. In Europe it was something akin to being a heretic kicked out of society if you were not with a church in a time like the 1500s. Thankfully it isn't that way today, but even 200-300 years ago it would be unusual for someone to claim they had no religion.