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* [http://news.discovery.com/history/vikings-native-american-woman.html DNA analysis of Icelandic people] has recently revealed that the Norse may have brought back a native american woman with them to Iceland, well before Columbus. Native American Viking indeed. |
* [http://news.discovery.com/history/vikings-native-american-woman.html DNA analysis of Icelandic people] has recently revealed that the Norse may have brought back a native american woman with them to Iceland, well before Columbus. Native American Viking indeed. |
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* [[wikipedia:Yasuke|Yasuke]], a black slave who served Nobunaga. |
* [[wikipedia:Yasuke|Yasuke]], a black slave who served Nobunaga. |
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* In a more recent example, Victorian Britain is portrayed as being completly white, yet Carribean people have been have been [http://www.itzcaribbean.com/black_people_history.php living in Britain since slavery was abolished.] They are possibly overlooked because many people in power preferred not to mention them at all. |
* In a more recent example, Victorian Britain is portrayed as being completly white, yet Carribean people have been have been [https://web.archive.org/web/20070209204524/http://www.itzcaribbean.com/black_people_history.php living in Britain since slavery was abolished.] They are possibly overlooked because many people in power preferred not to mention them at all. |
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* African German [[wikipedia:Hans Hauck|Hans Hauck]] was a soldier in the [[Nazis With Gnarly Weapons|German Wehrmacht]] during [[World War Two]]. There were quite a few African Germans in Nazi Germany, either descended from people from the [[Imperial Germany|colonies]] or the children of black French soldiers from the 1923-25 Occupation of the Ruhr, so called Rhineland bastards. Indeed, as they were considered inferior and not fit for military service, but not a threat like Jews and Slavs, black Germans were more likely to survive the war than ethnic Germans. |
* African German [[wikipedia:Hans Hauck|Hans Hauck]] was a soldier in the [[Nazis With Gnarly Weapons|German Wehrmacht]] during [[World War Two]]. There were quite a few African Germans in Nazi Germany, either descended from people from the [[Imperial Germany|colonies]] or the children of black French soldiers from the 1923-25 Occupation of the Ruhr, so called Rhineland bastards. Indeed, as they were considered inferior and not fit for military service, but not a threat like Jews and Slavs, black Germans were more likely to survive the war than ethnic Germans. |
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* Due to ancient migrations of Indo-Europeans throughout Eurasia, people with "European" traits can be found in some quite surprising places. Green eyes are very common among some tribes in Afghanistan, the most famous example being [http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2002/04/afghan-girl/index-text Sharbat Gula], the Afghan girl on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic. Blue eyes can be found in [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706787/ India]. There are blond [http://www.ghandchi.com/iranscope/Anthology/KavehFarrokh/300/image051.jpg Iranians], blond [http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8721/girlfromkalashpakistanw.jpg Pakistanis], and ''even blond [http://pastmist.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/blond-mongol-girl.jpg Mongols]''. Well, the Mongols did capture and enslave Slavs when they invaded Eastern Europe. |
* Due to ancient migrations of Indo-Europeans throughout Eurasia, people with "European" traits can be found in some quite surprising places. Green eyes are very common among some tribes in Afghanistan, the most famous example being [http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2002/04/afghan-girl/index-text Sharbat Gula], the Afghan girl on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic. Blue eyes can be found in [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706787/ India]. There are blond [http://www.ghandchi.com/iranscope/Anthology/KavehFarrokh/300/image051.jpg Iranians], blond [http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8721/girlfromkalashpakistanw.jpg Pakistanis], and ''even blond [http://pastmist.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/blond-mongol-girl.jpg Mongols]''. Well, the Mongols did capture and enslave Slavs when they invaded Eastern Europe. |
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