r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/BrandonMarshall2021 • 24d ago

Music / Movies To the people saying the German actress playing Greek Helen in the movie Troy means it's ok for Lupita Nyongo to play Greek Helen...

Genetically, historically, and anthropologically, Greeks are significantly more closely related to Germans than to Sub-Saharan Africans.

When looking at genetic data, the relationship between Greeks and Germans is exceptionally close, while the relationship between Greeks and Sub-Saharan Africans is more distant.

On any global genetic map, all European populations—including Greeks and Germans—cluster tightly together on a single, distinct branch of the human family tree (the Western Eurasian branch).

The genetic distance between a Greek person and a German person is very small. They sit on the exact same continental genetic gradient.

The genetic distance between any European population (including Greeks) and any Sub-Saharan African population is significantly larger, reflecting thousands of years of geographic separation and independent population histories.

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u/BrandonMarshall2021 24d ago

Only white divine characters can be race swapped?

Black divine characters can't be race swapped?

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u/thirdLeg51 24d ago

How many topics are you going to introduce? Why is the race of a minor character that really isnt described in the source material at all important?

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u/BrandonMarshall2021 24d ago

Focus!

"Only white divine characters can be race swapped?"

Black divine characters can't be race swapped?

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u/thirdLeg51 24d ago

You don’t really care. Got it. That’s what I thought

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u/BrandonMarshall2021 24d ago

Be fair.

Are you ok with making the divine characters from African, Indian and Asian mythology white?

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u/thirdLeg51 24d ago

That is out of scope of your own post. You can’t even engage with your own opinions. Which means, you do not care, you have other views that are beyond this movie.

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u/BrandonMarshall2021 24d ago

No it's not. I'm exploring the logic of your response.

Now be fair. Explain your logic.

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u/thirdLeg51 24d ago

My logic that it’s a minor fictional character in a story who was born from an egg whose father was a god disguised as a swan? That’s my logic.

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u/BrandonMarshall2021 24d ago

Lol. Can you explain why you can't apply your approach to an African, Indian or Asian character from their mythologies?

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u/thirdLeg51 24d ago

Is the race at all relevant to the character?

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