Spoiler: They aren’t.
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(Edit 05/05/21): Noticed a typo in the image, corrected now (Norweigan -> Norwegian).
Article:
The best study on American genetics is a 2015 genome-wide analysis produced by the Harvard Genetics team, featuring the renowned geneticist David Reich. The study was published in the American Journal of Human Genetics and features a huge sample size of over 200,000 people.
Link: ‘The Genetic Ancestry of African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans across the United States,’ Bryc et al. (2015).
The study found that White Americans are, on average:
- 98.6% European
- 0.19% African
- 0.18% Native American
BUT it also found also found that:
- Only 3.5% of Whites have African ancestry
- Only 2.7% of Whites have Native American ancestry
So, around 95% of White Americans have no African or Amerindian ancestry, and White Americans are only 1.4% non-European, on average.
Compare that figure to some other ethnic groups of Europe:
- Morodovians have ~12% Siberian ancestry
- Finns have ~8% Siberian ancestry
- Iberians have ~5% North African ancestry
- Italians have ~2% North African ancestry
According to US Census Bureau data, the largest ancestries of White Americans are:
- German (13%)
- Irish (12%)
- English (9%)
- Italian (6%)
- French (4%)
- Polish (3%)
- Scottish (3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2%)
- Dutch (1%),
- Norwegian (1%)
- Swedish (1%)
- Russian (1%)
However, many British Americans self-report simply as “Americans” (7%), meaning that the Anglo proportion is likely under-represented.
Here’s the regional genetic breakdown from the Harvard study:
The vast majority of White American ancestry is of Northwest European origin; mostly Anglo-Germanic. As such, White Americans look like pretty average Northwest Europeans (discounting all of the obesity).
Averaged American phenotypes:
Common average phenotypes of Northwest Europe:
Regarding the anti-American “Mutt” slur:
Firstly, all European ethnic groups went through a process of ethnogenesis by mixing with other European ethnic groups. The English are Britons + Anglo-Saxons + Scandinavians, the French are Gauls + Franks + Italians, and so on. Granted, there has been some wacky ethnic intermixing in America since the 1965 Immigration Act, but Americans are still fundamentally Northwest European. If Americans are mutts, then Europe is the #1 mutt zone on the planet, considering how much internal migration and interethnic mixing has taken place within the continent over the past few thousand years. All Europeans are quite literally cousins, and share a common ancestor as recently as 1000 years ago.
Secondly, a huge misconception when it comes to European genetics is that Northern Europeans form radically distinct ethnic groups, on a biological level. Obviously, there are regional variations in phenotype but a Dane, a Dutchman, and an Englishman (for example) are genetically near-identical to one another. To put this into perspective, an Englishman and a Russian are more closely related to one another than a North Italian (Aosta Valley) is to a South Italian (Calabria). Pretty crazy, right?
(Smaller number = more related):
This is partially due to the aforementioned migrations within Europe, and partially because all Northern Europeans derive over half of their ancestry from an ancient population known as the Corded Ware. I’m not going to explain the Corded Ware here, but this 10 minute video is a good introduction.
So, are Americans “mutts”? No more so than other Europeans — but that may change in the future, given the incredibly bleak demographic situation.
“are Americans “mutts”? No more so than other Europeans — but that may change in the future, given the incredibly bleak demographic situation.”
An understatement. The 60% white figure is almost certainly outdated by now. America will be like ancient India and Egypt most likely. By that I mean future mutts on this continent will vehemently deny the contributions of whites to the ancient civilization despite overwhelming evidence. I say this as an American. As always unexpected events could stop this somehow if we’re lucky.
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I disagree. The blatantly excessive, never ending attacks against Whites is only beginning. Inevitably it will rapidly reawaken our collective racial consciousness and reinforce it in the long run.
https://odysee.com/nsops:1
https://odysee.com/$/search?q=nat-soc-aus
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Literally the Indian caste system wasn’t enough racial consciousness to avoid that fate.
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Yea and they were pretty autistic about it too. They even developed a precise measurement of how many generations it would take the descendants of a South Indian + Indo-Aryan mixed person to become fully Indo-Aryan again if they only bred with Indo-Aryans.
But they settled the region 4500 years ago and some upper caste Indians could still pass for Southern Europeans today.
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Sir, there was an interesting debate on whether American is a valid identity. The debate is on Giulle33’s Jewtube channel and I thought you might like it. Also could you make an article on the ideas of Spengler/Yockey?
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TY but I don’t really listen to debates, especially debates on questions I already know the answer to. I like Giuli though, he makes good videos. I like Spengler’s theory of history overall, but other people have done much better introductions to his work than I could ever create. John David Ebert’s lectures on Spengler are the best, and this intro is pretty good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc2200Wh3Zw
Yockey I don’t think is worth mentioning at all. He was the forerunner of all of the Alt-Right’s moronic ideology – NazBol/Third Worldist/Anti-Imperialist/Anti-Colonialist/Duginist/Third Positionism – whatever label you wanna use for it. Every cancer of the Alt-Right can be traced back to Yockey.
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I am not that familiar with Yockey, but EGI Notes (Ted Sallis) is pro-Yockey. Are you familiar with EGI Notes? I believe that Sallis is right about the HBD movement. He also has good criticism of Nordicism, genetic testing and other topics. However, I think that he trust too much the “muh science”, especially regarding covid.
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You do honorable work.
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I never understood this insult, some European nationalists just love hating America, and usually for all the wrong reasons.
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This page explains the Amerimutt/ Le 56% Face https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/amerimutt-le-56-face . This is probably part of the larger psychological operation of dividing Europeans. There is probably a plan to push European countries towards China (Russia being an important nexus between Asia and Europe).
The situation is worse in the Balkans, Hungary, Slovakia and Eastern Europe. Some people from these countries call each other gypsies, Turks, Mongols, Asians and what not. At the same time we see China making economic agreements with many countries in the region. We even see Chinese immigration in countries like Hungary. On internet it mentions 30000 Chinese in Budapest. So Budapest is already 1%-2% Chinese (who controls Budapest, controls Hungary). The Czech Republic is about 0.8% Vietnamese. They call each other Mongoloid, and it seems that they become mongoloid.
At the same time we have the HBD movement that talks about high IQ Asians and Jews.
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The whole amerimutt – europoor back and forth is mainly shill work most notably found on 4chan which gets raided by every type of leftist and shill on daily basis.
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Unfortunately there’s going to be a lot of mixing in the future. It’s already begun actually.
The question is, how nonwhite can a person have in them and still be white.
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I answered this in the appendix of this article: https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/what-is-white-a-guide-for-complete-novices/
TL;DR it depends on what race they’re mixed with. Morodovians are ~12% Siberian but still look very much white, whereas some people who are only 15% Black look more phenotypically African than European.
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So i take it at this point only a spanish inquisition type thing could prevent Europeans from being mixed out?
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throwing southern french and italian (weird nordicism) under the bus just to defend the people who ruined the world
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Sometimes I wonder how you illiterate people even manage to type the comments you post
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” French are Gauls + Franks + Italians”
No. Source?
Thanks.
My father is totally French on the last 500 years old, and zero “Italians”.
Or maybe do you talk about “EEF”? Don’t use “italian” for this, but just EEF.
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Source is basic French history. You can probably find a children’s book with this information
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So you suppose that there is no French without “Italian” origin?
Again: do you have A GENETIC STUDY (source)?
SurviveTheJive would never say that, because he’s honest … sometimes you seem to be in bad faith, dishonest …
There are many French people who have been French for 500 years (my father, for example) AND there are those who are the result of a mixture of different ethnicities.
I can’t see what’s hard to understand, you know?
Why do you criticize leftists for their unfounded statements while making unfounded statements yourself?
As for history books, are you kidding? France is extremely anti-racist and the books are full of stupid and unfounded propaganda … Is it a nationalist who says that? A guy who is interested in population genetics and who doesn’t like what is not precise, scientifically?
If you’re honest (like Tom from SurviveTheJive) you quote your sources, otherwise you stop saying baseless things.
Go read a genetic study about France https://www.nature.com/articles/s41431-020-0584-1
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Gaul was a Roman territory from 120 BC to 470 AD. The study that you linked shows French people have Italian ancestry.
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Nice article Thuletide, this was an interesting read.
I have a few things to say: I don’t think ” White American” qualifies as an ethnic group, in the sense that it’s a group of people united by shared ancestry. Take Nick Fuentes for example. He’s 75 percent Italian. As a Mediterranean he’s ancestrally and ethnically different from the Northwestern European Americans. Yet he’s lumped in with the Northwesterners anyway by virtue of being white. When you lump in all white people who live in the US in the same group, it ceases to be a distinct ethnicity because at that point it just becomes a synonym for white. I think in order for “White American” to be a distinct ethnicity in needs to only include people who are descendent from the founding European settlers. That way it actually becomes analogous to the English ethnicity. Because “Ethnic English” only refers to people descendent from the Anglo-Saxons and not just any white person who lives in England.
Secondly, I have a question. The part about ethnic biological distinction confused me a little. If there’s little biological distinction between Northwestern European ethnic groups, does that make the ethnic groups invalid groupings since they’re basically identical? Not trying to be a race denier or whatever.
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The birth of ethnic groups is not an entirely autonomous process, my buddy Giuli made a good video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQLPQrk6nZo
The reason why ‘American’ is a valid ethnic group is due to external pressures put upon Whites in America (via non-Whites), which forces Whites to unite as one group. I agree that Meds and Germanics shouldn’t regularly be classified as one ethnic group, but America is a different situation. I would say that there is a wider White American identity, and within this identity multiple subgroups, in the same way that Germany contains Prussians, Bavarians, Saxons, etc.
The same logic applies regarding the small near-biologically-identical ethnic groups of Europe. There has been no external pressure (i.e. no non-Whites) to force unity, so these peoples who are otherwise near-identical to one another, both biologically and culturally, form separate ethnic groups and fight with one another. This may change in future due to immigration into Europe.
Edit: But this is a good question, maybe I will edit it into the article later.
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Hi, i was just wondering if you can cite sources for the images included in this (very interesting) article? I have some friends that I occasionally discuss these subjects with, and, well, they get fussy if sources can’t be cited properly.
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That’s probably a good idea, especially when it comes to the principal component analyses and stuff
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>tfw part of the 2.7%
Anyway I’m glad that most people aren’t mutts like me. The mutt meme was always retarded anyhow, since the population of natives is so low and niggers were were always seen as lower. Not to mention anti-miscegenation laws.
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The amerimutt meme never really made sense to me. Most white Americans look “whiter” (meaning more north-west euro) than an average European, obviously. They come from the edges of European continent – British isles, Scandinavia, Netherlands, Germany, Northern France maybe – which by nature of their location have less genetic diversity than for example central or eastern Europe; we can see that clearly on y-DNA haplos, with places like Ireland almost uniformly R1b, while places like Romania having more equal distribution of many haplogroups.
Also, just because USA happens to be 40-50% non-white doesn’t mean everyone is mixed (which is implied by the meme). It’s like saying that the average human has one breast and one testicle. Most races just stick to themselves, whites the most of all actually, despite all the propaganda.
One could think of white Americans as invading indo-europeans into North America not dissimilar to Corded-ware peoples invading from eastern Europe to northern Europe. White Americans find themselves in a similar situation as CW around 2500 BC; there is a notion of common origin (steppes/Europe), but not yet of distinct tribes/ethnicities, which develop much later. This is not a perfect analogy (white Americans didn’t incorporate native women in the way CW did) but useful nonetheless.
In all, white Americans are just another tribe/ethnicity of Europeans and we should perceive them as such, having a common origin and identity, especially in times when we find ourselves as global minority in decline.
The europoor meme on the other hand,… haha :))
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