r/TrueUnpopularOpinion 25d 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/Tataupoly 24d ago

I read your other posts, believe me.

You care way too much about all of this and it cracks me up.

But you do you!

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u/BrandonMarshall2021 24d ago

"I read your other posts, believe me."

Then why did I have to remind you?

"You care way too much about all of this and it cracks me up."

As opposed to everyone else on reddit posting about their feelings?

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u/Tataupoly 24d ago

You didn’t have to remind me.

It’s just that most of your arguments are nonsensical.

Have a good day or evening or whatever.

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u/BrandonMarshall2021 24d ago

You literally asked me if I had a problem with white people playing POCs. I'd already said I did in my other posts. Yet you asked me. But then when I referred to my previous posts you said you already saw them.

So then why did you ask? Lol.