That is where the name Galatia in Asia Minor came from (the land of Galls/Celts)
Posted on 08/16/2006 9:16:37 AM PDT by blam
Before there were Chinese as we know today, China was dominated by a Caucasuian type people. Maybe Jomon- Ainu. The oldest Mongoloid skeleton ever found is only 10k years old. (Oppenheimer)
They probably came from the same stock as all the other Indo-Europeans, just earlier and arrived through the Middle east. I suspect they became isolated in Spain - France during the LGM, 18-23,000 years ago and were joined by the rest of the 'family' after the LGM by a group arriving through Russia.
A DNA study that supports this assertion?
UC Davis Study Finds Distinct Genetic Profiles
"The Southern grouping included individuals from Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, as well as Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews. The Northern group included people with English, Irish, German, Swedish and Ukranian ancestry."
That is where the name Galatia in Asia Minor came from (the land of Galls/Celts)
I celebrate it.
There's also Galacia in Central Europe...
"Is it not interesting that all of these locations are not being assembled in a master survey, to dispel the shadows on the extent and power of Celtic civilization. Our modern Western society denies its true roots. British Aristocracy and , yes, Christianity, have taken their respective tolls on the truth."
Do you really think there's an anti-Celt conspiracy???
I play in a pipe band, founded one at a high school. I can assure you there is no "conspiracy." but institutionalized prejudice against anything Celtic exists today.I wouldn't call it a conspiracy, just cultural prejudice.
How does it play out: jealousy, sureptitious censorship, gossip, I have seen it all, but we Celts just keep on truckin, and making the whole thing available to anyone who is interested.
Just do a memory search of your own on Celtic stereotypes from which prejudicial ideas flow, and you will find them there , like little wiggling parasites.
"Just do a memory search of your own on Celtic stereotypes from which prejudicial ideas flow, and you will find them there , like little wiggling parasites."
I can't think of any.
I have had a whole crowd of foppish liberal wine and cheese faux aristocrats who fight tooth and nail not to budget money for Celtic Arts courses at our school, and we have produced national level artists from the ranks of our students. Not willing to give in, our band funded the courses by playing 60 public engagements per year,earning 30 thousand dollars to fund instruction, creating fame and good will for our school throughout New England. Still the wine and cheese liberals would not relent, because the Celtic Arts are "uncivilized" when compared to the likes of Beethoven and Handel.Yet the public clamors for what we do, and the liberals are left rotting on their aristocratic vines, as they fail to produce student artists of national stature, who can't even gain entry into our leading University music programs.
Prejudice against Celtic culture is very real to me. I battle it every week. How many names in your community phone book are Scottish or Irish? If you have many, why are there not fiddle,harp, and piping concerts like those of Cape Breton. Why have those people lost their culture? Simple, because they were stigmatized for having it, stigmatized for speaking Gaelic. Yet they have no Gaelic or Celtic studies in our Universities, while we have Afro American studies, women's studies. There are more Swahili courses in the USA than Gaelic.
I get to see what happens when our band parades down the streets of New England. We are the recipients of a surge of gratitude and often tears in the eyes of those of Celtic descent. I wonder what the reason for that might be?
When I laugh around the dozens of kilt jokes, drunk jokes, I am not laughing at the jokes any more, but I am laughing at the fools who tell them from a false sense of superiority and ignorance.And I laugh way harder than any such joke warrants. It sometimes makes them think.
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What a cutie-puss!
(This would make a wonderful stand-alone article, SC)
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