Reply #15: Not even them. They too are mixed way back in time.

[Cleita]

I think I qualified what I said by saying that Irish have been pretty well isolated for thousands of years from mixtures of blood from other continents,like America, Africa or Asia, so that they should be pretty ethinically pure from the standpoint of being white or what people think is white. It doesn't mean that this standard is true. It's just something to illustrate a point that you really can't define race that easily.

Now I'm gone. I know all about the invasions of vikings, British and the Spanish armada survivors that ended up on the Irish shores so don't bother to tell me about it. Incidentally, my grandfather was descended from Spanish Basques, who immigrated to southern Chile and intermarried with the natives there.