Re: Racial Purity, was Re: Planetary Charters, was Re: [TML] Amount of self-government on member worlds Bruce Johnson (18 Jul 2016 14:49 UTC)

Re: Racial Purity, was Re: Planetary Charters, was Re: [TML] Amount of self-government on member worlds Bruce Johnson 18 Jul 2016 14:49 UTC

> On Jul 17, 2016, at 6:14 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> After all, AFAIK, no homo sapiens extant today are *really* purebloods as we all carry some neanderthal genes, no?

And mammal genes, and vertebrate genes, and, and, and…I expect ‘racial purity’ in Solomani Confederation is more of a cultural ‘one drop’ determination rather than anything seriously rooted in fact.

They’ll have fixated on a couple genetic markers unique to Vilani and if you have those, you’re not ‘pure’ enough.

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Bruce Johnson
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