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  1. I'm an American from the South, which has always been (along with parts of New England) very ethnically homogeneous among the European derived population - mainly British, broadly speaking.  My maternal grandfather was an Englishman from the midlands, and he married an American from an Ulster Scot/German family. On my father's side, we are a mashup of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish, in approximately that order. I'm sort of a bastard son of the entirety of the British Isles :D I would love to have some comprehensive genetic tests done, to compare to your excellent research; but I am wary of giving my genetic information to anyone lightly. Perhaps you could suggest some trustworthy sources that you might know of? Thanks for all your work, I always look forward to new videos.
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  2. Regarding slavery and gene flow from Northern Europe to the Middle East, the Muslim world raided Europe for slaves for around 1200 years. This occurred as far north and west as southern Iceland as late as the mid-1800s. The U.S. Marines were created to stop the depredation of American merchant vessels, passengers, and crews by the Barbary (North Africa) Pirates.
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  3. There many Jewish people with red hair and some of the people mentioned in the Bible had red hair.
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  4. They have done recent dna studies showing that the Irish , Scottish & British share dna ancestry with the Spaniards.
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  5. I thought Gleesons characters passion for the traditional music was also significant. His intense obsession with creating music as a legacy of his name also divides the friends. Was this meant to represent the civil war being fought to uphold Gealic culture tradition versus ' things as they are, have been'?
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  6. Maybe it's also because Inuits and related people have only been that far north for 5000 years but Europeans were there during the ice age. Also, evolutionary mutation is always partly by chance, part selection. Would explain why Siberian Huskies have blue eyes, but there are plenty of northern dog breeds that do not have blue eyes.
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  7. Most of my family is from Brittany, but my close family lives in Paris. The reason there was such a drop from the 20th century to the 21st was that the French government attempted to kill the language but forbidding its use in schools, or even giving your children celtic names. It's pretty recent to be able to do that actually. I don't know breton but my grandmother had given me a vocabulary book of Breton and I wish I knew where it is because I want to learn it now.
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  8. As a southern European who lived in the Netherlands, I can guarantee the Dutch are tall for real ;)
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  9. I’m an Ameri-mutt so of course I’ve got English DNA
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  10. I’m from Galicia in Spain, we have towns that are up to 80% redhead. Our history says our founding fathers came from Scythian and Sarmatian tribes.
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  11. My father was Scottish with Norwegian ancestry. My mother was from York in Northern England. I have Dupertryns contracture. So I know I have Viking blood!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇳🇴
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  12. Sixth generation Australian here, living right on top of the Tropic of Capricorn. I am of black Irish and Scots descent, with green dominant hazel eyes, as do most of my seven siblings. One brother has blue eyes.
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  13. Don't forget that Yamnaya carried an early version of Yersinia Pestis(also known as the plague).
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  14. I have green eyes but people often think they are blue or grey. It depends on the color of the clothes I wear and lighting.
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  15. I'm mostly Finnish. Siberian origins, eh? Well, these old genes have come full circle. I'm also a bit Icelandic, was born in Minnesota, and I live in Alaska. ;^)
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  16. Blessings from Sweden 🇸🇪
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  17. Green eyes from Spain. My aunt and my 3 nephews have green eyes too.
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  18. Im from Norway with green eyes.
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  19. Portugal has much more of a boreal side than people think; that's usually the biggest missing piece in foreigners' perception. 🏞️⛰️🌲🏔️🌳🏕️ Celtic and Germanic heritage, culture and music; mountains and wilderness, snow and wintry scenarios...
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  20. I'm 52 and today years old when I found out I have hazel eyes. So thanks for that. I feel special now. I knew they were lighter than brown but nowhere as light a green or amber (which is what I thought hazel was). I think there's a lot more hazel eyed people around but we report them as brown on our legal documents. I can understand how people in vastly brown eyed countries would report theirs as different and mark them as hazel. Mine are swampy green, with rust center sunflowers, and gold ribbons.
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  21. As a Finn I have to say that I love your accent. For some reason I have this same way of speaking and I have no clue why it got to be that way .
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  22. It's a shame you didn't speak about Cornwall - Always forgotten yet one of the longest histories and languages. I suppose that was the intention of the Anglo-saxons, sad. I identify as Cornish and count myself among Celts equally to Wales or Scotland
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  23. Wales also had Irish population invasions in north-west and south-west of Wales. The Irish Desi tribe into south-west Wales Dyfed area, for instance.
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  24. I'm half Scottish half Spanish xD this hits hard
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  25. Herodotus says the Scythians own name for themselves was "Scoloti".
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  26. Portuguese here, results of my DNA, 69.5 Iberian, 27.1 Italian, 3.4 Finnish
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  27. Switzerland is a fascinating collection of language and ethnicities. Much love to the Swiss people from this British-American.
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  28. There is an old place in Istanbul called Galata which is famously known by the Galata tower and the football club Galatasaray. So galata basically evolved from Galatia which means Celt or celtic country
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  29. My father is from Navarre, the real básque land and he got a 100% iberian test.
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  30. Without having seen this video, or known much about banshees beforehand, it was clear to both me and my husband that the old woman doubled as a mythological figure - both real and archetypal at the same time. At times it also seemed like Dominic was something of the holy fool, which led us to wondering if all the figures were archetypal in some way. SO speculated the film was about depression at heart, and certainly the isolation and the tension of small communities, where horrors (domestic and sexual abuse in this one) are often known, yet go unchecked because the community does not know how to deal with them. But perhaps really the core relationship breakdown is a reflection of the civil war, as you point out, and Colm cutting off his fingers and preventing himself from doing the very thing he end his friendship with Padraic for, reflects the futility and sacrifice of civil war? Perhaps the fact that there are so many layers is what makes this such a good film though, and trying to fix on one meaning or another, or find a definitive reading, is actually a way of reducing the film. It’s certainly a film which warrants more than one watch, that’s for sure though.
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  31. I'm Hungarian and have reached the same conclusion. There are people in my family, both my grandfather's and my brother with blue eyes, quite many with hazel and amber eyes, and some with real brown eyes. That is the smallest percentage as most have a mixture of blue/brownish.
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  32. I understood that Viking DNA in England and Anglo Saxon DNA are so similar they are indistinguishable.
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  33. I’m descendent from Clan Stewart, Douglas and Campbell. I’m enjoying your channel.
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  34. My eyes are very green. I have had people complement me all my life. According to ancestry, I am Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and English. We have traced our family back to the 1500’s in England. I have a letter that was written to my Great Great Grandfather, it was by a woman suitor who said she missed looking into his “emerald green eyes”. My mother also had green eyes, but a slightly different shade.
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  35. I have light blue/grey eyes and my LivingDNA Viking index is 73% and mostly belongs with the Swedish Vikings that formed the Kievan Rus.
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  36. My family migrated from Portugal to Hawaii in the 1800. My mom was born in Hawaii. Her family is from Madeira. Every time someone met my mom for the first time, they thought she was Spanish.
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  37. I am of Scottish, Irish , German descent and I have hazel eyes
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  38. I have green eyes, inherited them from my mother. She is Scottish descent, we are the Frasier clan. My boyfriend also has green eyes. He is part of the Maxwell clan.
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  39. The cloudy skies often found in Scotland and Ireland (even in Summer LOL) also cut down on the sunshine which may add to the effect of the short winter daylight hours.
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  40. I would love to know more about red-haired people with blue or green eyes, and how that might be related to the blonde/blue-eyed subject of this video. Thanks. Enjoyed this video.
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  41. I'm German. In my family there are blonde hair with blue eyes, blonde hair with brown eyes and dark brown hair with brown eyes. A cousin is red-haired with green-blue eyes. My eldest brother tans very quickly in the sun and he is very different from the others. We Germans are a mix.
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  42. White blonde my whole life with blue eyes as well… I sure got lots of stares in Asia and the Middle East.
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  43. I am a blonde haired , blue eyed, Red- bearded Scotsman that grew up in Australia when I was 2 years old And lived there for 40 Years But was born in Scotland and have Northern English ancestry ( Yorvik!) on my Mother’s side. And Scottish, English and part Norwegian on my fathers side.
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  44. Hazel eyes here that appear blue-green-grey, depending upon the light and my mood (when I cry or have a headache my eyes appear bright green).
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  45. I found a picture taken at my grandparents' ca. 1960. All the women seated at the table had red hair: my mother, my paternal grandmother, and my great uncle Frank's wife. Some northern European men definitely have a thing for redheads.
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  46. Just to be pedantic, sorry, but I am a biochemist, lactase is an enzyme that digests lactose (milk sugar), so that the calorific yield of milk digestion is maximised. In most mammals it is only present in the young, who are being suckled. In some humans this enzyme continues to be produced in adulthood so that drinking milk (from cows, goats etc) remains very metabolically profitable, this is 'lactASE persistence', which confers 'lactOSE tolerance' - there is no 'lactase tolerance'. It is very easy to confuse the names, though one being a sugar (lactose) and the other an enzymatic protein (lactase), they are very different chemically.
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  47. I’m an Australian with a Scottish father.I have done a DNA test on ancestry and been contacted by 3 cousins from Scotland who had already done a quite extensive family tree.I still had to do my own research to go down some of my ancestors lines.I didn’t know where my Norwegian DNA had come from until I found that my paternal grandmothers descent was from the Orkney islands of Westray and papa Westray.
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  48. A Finnish guy here, I did a DNA test (23AndMe), what I've understood I got a very typical result in Finland: The maternal haplogroup is H, common in Europe generally, and the paternal haplogroup is N-M178, which is common in men with indigenous Siberian ancestry.
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  49. Thank you for making a video about the Celts of Iberia. We are as proud of our culture and heritage as any of our Celtic Brothers and Sisters
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  50. Thank you! I am Galician and always felt connected to the emerald isle👍
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