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While I appreciate the sentiments that has spawned such a site as this, and I share many of the opinions on this board, I'm afraid my first post here is going to make me a little less popular than a rat. But bear with me, gentlemen, I do at least sympathize with your case.
What I'm afraid I have to tell you is this: I see a lot of support for this new wave of Russian dominance of the pugilistic arts, I am sorry to tell you that a lot ofthe hoopla, as it pertains to the northern european"white" races,may be unfounded, for what we now call the "Russians" are, in fact, more closely related to the other races we find on the continent of Asia than they are related to northern europeans.
I understand they may look the same, or very similar, to northern europeans, but cultural-genetic DNA testing now conclusively shows this to be the case. I am afraid we cannot base all our conclusions--or in this case assumptions--on appearance alone.
The best illustration I can use for this, and which I have used in several of my books on cultural genetics,comes from the animal kingdom: Witness the Hyena of Africa. It looks like a canine, right? Well, although technically a predator species unique unto itself, the African Hyena is in fact more closely related (albeit a bit distantly notwithstanding) to the feline.
I have written a number of books on the subject of cultural genetics and we document these things and more, and some of the research I have even done myself.
Nevertheless in my spare time I share all of your passion for the sport of boxing which I am reading on this site, and I too am a northern european male. Call it a vice, if you will, but it is a pasttime I enjoy.
Or used to enjoy, perhaps. I admit it is getting a little dispiriting, watching for years now the lack of success of boxers of my own race. Still, I forge ahead, hoping...
Last weekend, I shared all of your grief over that "boxing" match which featured the young NE boxer Hatton being pummeled. And I too share the concerns of some on this board regarding the "dodgy" refereeing we were witness to.
What I'm afraid I have to tell you is this: I see a lot of support for this new wave of Russian dominance of the pugilistic arts, I am sorry to tell you that a lot ofthe hoopla, as it pertains to the northern european"white" races,may be unfounded, for what we now call the "Russians" are, in fact, more closely related to the other races we find on the continent of Asia than they are related to northern europeans.
I understand they may look the same, or very similar, to northern europeans, but cultural-genetic DNA testing now conclusively shows this to be the case. I am afraid we cannot base all our conclusions--or in this case assumptions--on appearance alone.
The best illustration I can use for this, and which I have used in several of my books on cultural genetics,comes from the animal kingdom: Witness the Hyena of Africa. It looks like a canine, right? Well, although technically a predator species unique unto itself, the African Hyena is in fact more closely related (albeit a bit distantly notwithstanding) to the feline.
I have written a number of books on the subject of cultural genetics and we document these things and more, and some of the research I have even done myself.
Nevertheless in my spare time I share all of your passion for the sport of boxing which I am reading on this site, and I too am a northern european male. Call it a vice, if you will, but it is a pasttime I enjoy.
Or used to enjoy, perhaps. I admit it is getting a little dispiriting, watching for years now the lack of success of boxers of my own race. Still, I forge ahead, hoping...
Last weekend, I shared all of your grief over that "boxing" match which featured the young NE boxer Hatton being pummeled. And I too share the concerns of some on this board regarding the "dodgy" refereeing we were witness to.