Reply #71: Not true

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DNA studies show that most people in Europe are direct descendents of the people who lived in those same places thousands of years ago. Even when there were migrations that affected languages and cultures, they didn't have much impact genetically. For example, Irish is a Celtic language, but the Irish people have no Celtic blood. Instead, they're most closely related to the Basques -- and secondily to the Berbers, who brought agriculture from North Africa to Western Europe 7000 year ago.

European Jews are a slightly different case, because they're mostly descended in the male line from Middle Eastern forefathers but in the female line from local European women. The Jews of 2000 years ago probably looked more like present-day Palestinians than anything else.

(If anyone cares, about 40% of male Jews -- especially the Cohens -- are of Y chromosome type J2, which probably originated in Kurdistan and is considered typically Semitic. Others are are of type G2, which is also Middle Eastern, or E3b, which probably originated in Arabia.

Only a minority of Jewish men are of non-Middle Eastern DNA types. Some are R1a1, which is typical of Eastern Europeans. And oddly enough, about 5% are Q3, which arose in Central Asia and is dominant among Native Americans.)