Balkan obsession with Genetics
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The obsession with genetics and genealogy is a very prevalent phenomenon among Eastern Europeans. Yet there is something much more sinister than the innocent interest in one’s ethnic roots, something rooted within more serious political dogmas that covertly plagues the average Balkan mind.
At face value, there’s nothing inherently wrong with having an interest in the genetic makeup and origins of your ancestors. Yet when politically instrumentalized, this harmless interest turns into a dangerous obsession, one that inevitably leads to pseudo-scientific attempts at proving the supposed genetic supremacy of one given group over another, paving the path to tribalist and inevitably fascist narratives.
Autochthony is an incredibly fetishised word by Balkan contemporaries, often used to justify territorial claims- suggesting the endemic and indigenous character of the given nation. These claims are often pseudo-scientific and disingenuous in their nature, as the undeniable factual claims are injected with shaky evidence and outright lies - all with the mission to justify the connection between the said nation and some ancient indigenous group of tribes, whose genetic makeup is deemed superior to that of what’s officially associated with that nation.
In the following minutes, we will take a look at the plethora of origin theories which have materialised in this part of the world - some of which are officially accepted by the local academia and some absolutely insane ones, which were unsurprisingly turned into memes.
♪ Music ♫
Al Marconi - Dark & Moody Spanish Guitar Music
►Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:39 Serbs
6:51 Albanians
9:08 Bulgarians
10:35 Macedonians
11:43 Bosniaks
13:18 Croatians
15:12 Conclusion
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The obsession with genetics and genealogy is a very prevalent phenomenon among Eastern Europeans. Yet there is something much more sinister than the innocent interest in one’s ethnic roots, something rooted within more serious political dogmas that covertly plagues the average Balkan mind.
At face value, there’s nothing inherently wrong with having an interest in the genetic makeup and origins of your ancestors. Yet when politically instrumentalized, this harmless interest turns into a dangerous obsession, one that inevitably leads to pseudo-scientific attempts at proving the supposed genetic supremacy of one given group over another, paving the path to tribalist and inevitably fascist narratives.
Autochthony is an incredibly fetishised word by Balkan contemporaries, often used to justify territorial claims- suggesting the endemic and indigenous character of the given nation. These claims are often pseudo-scientific and disingenuous in their nature, as the undeniable factual claims are injected with shaky evidence and outright lies - all with the mission to justify the connection between the said nation and some ancient indigenous group of tribes, whose genetic makeup is deemed superior to that of what’s officially associated with that nation.
In the following minutes, we will take a look at the plethora of origin theories which have materialised in this part of the world - some of which are officially accepted by the local academia and some absolutely insane ones, which were unsurprisingly turned into memes.
♪ Music ♫
Al Marconi - Dark & Moody Spanish Guitar Music
►Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:39 Serbs
6:51 Albanians
9:08 Bulgarians
10:35 Macedonians
11:43 Bosniaks
13:18 Croatians
15:12 Conclusion
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