Black Vikings: Difference between revisions

Content added Content deleted
VisualWikitext
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0)
Line 166: Line 166:
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20131004072713/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.
* The Black Seminoles are a controversial section of the Seminole tribe who are descended from escaped American slaves who sought refuge with the Seminoles in Spanish Florida. Many interbred with the Creek descended natives, while others remain genetically separate. The debate continues today as to whether they count as a true part of the tribe as they have little or no genetic connection, but upwards of two hundred years of cultural connection.
* The Black Seminoles are a controversial section of the Seminole tribe who are descended from escaped American slaves who sought refuge with the Seminoles in Spanish Florida. Many interbred with the Creek descended natives, while others remain genetically separate. The debate continues today as to whether they count as a true part of the tribe as they have little or no genetic connection, but upwards of two hundred years of cultural connection.
* Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's great grandfather, [[wikipedia:Abram Petrovich Gannibal|Abram Petrovich Gannibal]], had been an ennobled Black Russian.
* Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's great grandfather, [[wikipedia:Abram Petrovich Gannibal|Abram Petrovich Gannibal]], had been an ennobled Black Russian.
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Black_Vikings"