• HisArmsOpen@crust.piefed.social
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    21 hours ago

    Is this suggesting that Jesus was white, or statistically, there’s a chance that he was white, or that wasn’t as brown as the rest of the population, or other? Even in 2025, with decades of active migration, if you travel to India / Asia, African countries, etc. It’s rare as hens teeth to find a white person in a remote community. Possibly more likely to find an albino or person with vitiligo.

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      20 hours ago

      It’s neither.

      It’s suggesting finding a white man in the Middle East ~0BCE wasn’t impossible or even unlikely.

      Asia, Africa, and India are not the Middle East. It’s not surprising to find different genetic groups in further away regions. But you can easily go to say Afghanistan and find “white people”, it’s not rare as hens teeth.