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Assyrians Are Lighter Than Armenians?
Posted by Anonymous (Guest) - Wednesday, January 18 2012, 5:55:10 (UTC)
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I just want to inform everyone of this quote from a User on another forum, who shall remain anonymous. In this, he responds to a User regarding his accusation of Kim Kardashian's father being half-Assyrian.

User 1:

"Nope, her father is half Assyrian."

User 2:

"Where did you get this from? Is it because she's swarthy and brown? Would you have said she's fully Armenian had she been light haired and blue/green eyed? Never have I seen a credible source say Kim Kardashian has Assyrian ancestry. In fact, had her father been half Assyrian or even fully Assyrian, she would not be as brown as she is. I'm certainly not as brown as she is, and most fully ethnic Assyrians aren't. Kim Kardashian could more likely pass as Indian rather than European. She's even more non-white than Mike the Jedi for crying out loud! It's always hilarious with these brown half-Europeans. It's like epic fail at being white

When you Armenians accuse Kim Kardashian and other brown Armenians of being Assyrians, you are just trying to blame us for your own native brownies. We Assyrians sure do have our fair share of brown Assyrians, but if any racially pure Caucasoid group can give us a run for our money in non-whiteness, it's Armenians! I say, never underestimate the swarthiness of Armenians."

Firstly, as a person who has a vested interest in the topics of Anthropology and Population Genetics. The statement that Armenians are darker than Assyrians is blatantly imbecilic, disingenuous and unsound. Especially considering the fact that the latest autosomal DNA charts suggest that, Armenians exhibit elevated levels of Western and Eastern European admixture. Whereas Assyrians barely score any at all, not even as low as 1%, at least not as a population. So Armenians would not only have a natural proclivity to producing Southern European physical characteristics, but also Western/Eastern European morphological attributes. Unlike some Assyrians, who are limited to passing in Southern Europe.



Even then, most of them wouldn't reasonably pass. So it's no surprise that Armenians are lighter than Assyrians on average, since Assyrians are less European. Moreover, this User in particular is notorious for disseminating disinformation on this forum. He's a racialist that rejects the fact that civilizations arose in Africa. He also believes that Assyrians are "racially pure". And utilizes and applies the Five Race Model (i.e. Caucasoid, Negroid, Mongoloid, Capoid, Australoid) to modern Genetics. Despite the fact it has been falsified since the 19th Century, due its inability to account for intrapopulational (within a population) genetic and phenotypic variation in a given geographical region.

Some of the Assyrians on that forum also have this habit, of carefully selecting images of the most European-looking Assyrians possible. Which is essentially nothing more, than a minimize the "darkies" tactic. So that by misrepresenting the spectrum of Assyrian craniofacial diversity, do so to create this illusion that Assyrians are lighter than most of their neighbors. By accentuating the lighter Assyrians, they deliberately mislead their audience into erroneously believing that they are.



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