Across the world, the people most obsessed with DNA and ancestry are Americans and Europeans. The next largest group comes from Western Asia—regions that today include Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Israel, Armenia, and related areas—along with Asia Minor, especially Turkey and the former Ottoman territories.
There were three major reasons for this obsession.
The first reason was that in Europe, it became extremely difficult to determine who was what before Christianity. In other words, whether one was a Roman noble, a Gallic peasant, a Norse heathen, a Germanic shepherd, or a Celtic salt-beer trader. The real question was to identify the mixtures that occurred after the advent of Christianity—roughly between the 9th and 15th centuries.
This confusion existed because Europe witnessed widespread sexual violence. The Romans committed such acts largely in North Africa, Arabia, and the Middle East. Meanwhile, the Gauls, Celts, Germanic tribes, and Norse-Slavic groups committed rape wherever they found opportunity. As a result, once societies became settled and “civilized,” the need to identify lineage and ancestry became intense.
By the 12th century, when the Church became dominant and the legend of the “Holy Grail” emerged—claiming that Jesus’s blood was preserved in a chalice—bloodlines acquired immense value. The Church legitimized offspring, categorizing them as legitimate, bastard, or Tommy (illegitimate children of the lowest status). The doctrine emphasized “pure blood.” This is why the so-called “first night” sexual privilege involved priests and courtiers.
Even within illegitimacy, there was hierarchy. If a noblewoman accompanying a prince or princess became a concubine, or if a courtier had relations with a queen resulting in an illegitimate child, such offspring were labeled bastards and were still granted social space.
However, children born from rape or relations with maids, servants, or women encountered on the road were called Tommies. These children were either handed over to the Church or turned into servants. This is why dogs were often named “Tommy.” In reality, Tommy was a slur—an English insult—not the diminutive of Thomas, but a derogatory pronoun. All these factors created Europe’s deep-rooted anxiety about tracing DNA and lineage.
Now turning to Western Asia and Asia Minor: around 325 BCE, Alexander set out to conquer what he believed was the entire world—limited, in his understanding, to Greece and Asia. At that time, Europe did not even know itself as Europe, and there was no awareness of America or even Russia.
From Macedonia to the Indus, Alexander married continuously and encouraged marriages among his soldiers—across Arabia, Turkey, Armenia, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan—while recruiting new soldiers along the way. This resulted in millions of children of mixed ancestry across his route.
Alexander committed comparatively few rapes. Instead, from Egypt to Saudi Arabia and Iran, he orchestrated mass marriages. He himself possessed over 300 princesses from different tribes and kingdoms—what historians call Alexander’s matrimonial alliances. This marked the beginning of large-scale racial mixing in the region.
After Alexander, the real terror began with the Mongols. Genghis Khan unleashed a storm of sexual violence across Central Asia, Asia Minor, Europe, and Arabia. Mongol genetic traces exist among Arabs, Turks, and Western Europeans alike. This campaign continued through his grandson Hulagu Khan, who destroyed the Abbasid Caliphate in Arabia.
It was due to the Mongols that the Ottoman power later rose and control of Islam slipped from Arab hands. Had the Mongols not arrived, the Arabs might have remained far more dominant. In cruelty, the Mongols surpassed all.
From Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to Turkey, Arabia, and Europe, historians estimate nearly ten million rapes by the 13th century. Such mass violence inevitably altered genetic lineages.
Later, when Europe began launching colonial expeditions and maritime voyages to discover the “New World,” the question arose: who would go? No one wanted to die. Ships were primitive, navigation unreliable, and wealthy individuals refused to take risks.
However, inspired by Marco Polo’s legendary wealth, Europe sought profit. As a result, thieves, pickpockets, and criminals imprisoned across Europe were loaded onto ships with the promise: survive, loot wealth, return rich, and your sentence will be pardoned. Columbus’s ships were filled with men sentenced to death.
Australia was settled similarly. All the Tommy children from English orphanages were shipped off to Australia, fundamentally altering its population. These criminals and vagabonds committed mass sexual violence against indigenous populations.
America, too, was populated largely due to European poverty—most notably the Irish Potato Famine. The New World was built by desperate gamblers of fate. Once their stomachs were full, the obsession with lineage and ancestry began. Each group declared its own race superior.
This farce originated from the German Thule Society, which spread the myth of Aryan racial supremacy across Europe. Hitler was merely one member; the true architects were these ideologues. From this emerged the intoxicating obsession with “Caucasian superiority.”
The Caucasian race itself was a fictional construct—an imaginary race derived from Europe’s mixed genetics. Americans are its most ardent believers, proudly calling themselves Caucasian, despite science having completely rejected this classification. It has no scientific basis.
Modern genetics does not support the idea that DNA groups—genes or genomes—determine race, power, or intellectual capacity. These outcomes are largely social effects. DNA and genetics only speak in terms of probability.
American science-fiction television and films have convinced people that DNA testing reveals everything instantly. This is false. DNA merely provides percentage matches—the closer the relative, the higher the match.
If two biological brothers marry two biological sisters, their children’s genetic matches will be so close that distinguishing parentage becomes extremely difficult. Even their grandchildren will match more closely than ordinary individuals. Thus, genetics remains a field of investigation, not conclusion.
Yet for Canadian taxi drivers and Facebook speculators, they are all genetic engineers. It is the same phenomenon as old roadside tea stalls, where idle men debate the Prime Minister for hours yet never manage to grow even a coriander plant in their entire lives.
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