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would you agree that people who lived in Roman empire are much more likely to have latin based names of months than those that did not? well Czechs and Croats have Slavic month names while Slovaks and Serbs have latin month names. This fits exactly in the model that I have described and is...

Tomentable, great job with maps and graphs. I would like to notice that beside populations that are largely mix of M558 and M458 we also have populations that are dominantly M458 or dominantly M558. This is important because it suggests that before the groups mixed there was individual...

I think viewpoint of Poles and Czech tend to be skewed on the issue. There is a tendency (not saying it is also the case with you) to blame Russians for Soviet Union misdeeds. But Russia is often left out in enumerating victims of Soviet regime. Think of all Russians who ended up in...

there is no racism and xenophobia generated by orthodox church... it is completely another question whether various christian churches of today fully understand what Christ actually tried to do or they have partially lost their way in worshiping and rituals... but among all christian churches I...

Great topic! And well introduced. I have to disagree already with this first sentence. Today people tend to blame genetics or use it as excuse for virtually anything. Looking at the map I would notice that east Europe was occupied by regime that existed and schooled and trained people into...

It looks to me a bit as if the point of the thread is that some people need to build up high opinion of own countries so that they are able to have high opinion of themselves as well. Not judging or anything. Not all countries, or all people for the matter of fact, were lucky enough with...

yes, I believe that is big part of it. In addition, especially in countries that used to be one country, people often already know musicians that compete for neighboring countries. Another aspect is national majorities and immigrants that tend to vote for their country of origin because of...