#ethnicity

The one thing that all long-lived ethnic diaspora and indigenous communities (>1000 years) have in common is a strong cultural emphasis on a refusal to intermarry and assimilate. The reason that there are no Hittites or Olmeks around anymore is not that they were all killed. It's that their descendants saw no great value in staying distinct. Swedes in the US around 1900 were also spectacularly bad at this. 😄 #ethnicity #migration

Excellent reminder of the power of footy!! “What the World Cup Showed Us About Politics” by Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar in The Byline Times on Substack @uk_politics @worldcup2026@channel.org “The 2026 World Cup shows that national identities are not fixed or exclusive. They are shaped by family histories, colonial legacies and people moving to escape war, hunger and poverty. Far from undermining national teams, these connections have become an integral part of what many national teams are. White supremacists and the blood and soil (‘Blut und Boden’) nationalists hate it. But the World Cup shows that on the football pitch ethnic nationalists are losing out to the civic nationalists. Mbappe, Olise, Yamal and the Stourbridge-born Jude Bellingham all have roots in Africa and bring to their teams a wonderful grace and power” https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/what-the-world-cup-showed-us-about #Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #WorldCup2026 #WhiteSupremacy #Identity #Racism #Trump #Ethnicity #Football #Unity