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Post by Funky Kong on Jan 4, 2006 16:05:43 GMT -5
There is. A Danish mulatto settled there 200 years ago and started a huge family.
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Post by tonynatuzzi on Jan 4, 2006 16:11:23 GMT -5
Hey Springa you know FunkMonk looks more White/Caucasoid than Bjork and one of FunkMonk's parents doesen't even have any European ancestry.
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Post by Yankel on Jan 4, 2006 17:07:55 GMT -5
Maybe. You got awfully defensive about something that was settled 5 hours prior. I'm not exactly president of her fan club, so hopefully you can forgive me for my tremendous blunder. Sheezis. I was practically trolling.
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Post by Springa on Jan 4, 2006 20:29:15 GMT -5
Wow, I can't believe I was 5 hours late at an internet forum... My bad! Maybe. You got awfully defensive about something that was settled 5 hours prior. I'm not exactly president of her fan club, so hopefully you can forgive me for my tremendous blunder. Sheezis. I was practically trolling.
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Post by Springa on Jan 4, 2006 20:33:32 GMT -5
Yep! And because of that guy, Bjork looks half asian. Now that makes absolute sense. There is. A Danish mulatto settled there 200 years ago and started a huge family.
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Post by Springa on Jan 4, 2006 20:40:52 GMT -5
So what, I know 2 unrelated nordic looking guys who have a black grandfather. I also know a 100% German guy who looks asian, pretty much the same case as Bjork, although he's probably got more Hun/Uralic/whatever blook than her. These things happen. It's not common, but they do. I also have an Italian friend who would be thought to be a quadroon if he was from Latin America. None of these cases can prove or even indicate much about Bjork. As I said, Bjork's is most likely just an aberrant phenotype, a genetic unprobability, maybe one in a million. But it's more logical for her to be something like that than to be "mixed" in a country like Iceland and without any known foreign ancestry. Hey Springa you know FunkMonk looks more White/Caucasoid than Bjork and one of FunkMonk's parents doesen't even have any European ancestry.
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Post by Funky Kong on Jan 5, 2006 1:37:00 GMT -5
Take it easy. It was a response to your claim that there hasn't been any historical non-European immigration to Iceland. Which there has. And furthermore, that is irrelevant, as Lapps are Europeans.
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Post by zemelmete on Jan 5, 2006 8:36:14 GMT -5
I used to think she was mixed myself, but the problem is: there's absolutely no indication of non caucasoid admixture in her family and in her country even. I think one picture tells more than 100 words: This is a man who lives in Iceland and has icelandic name and patronymic. Something similar to Bjork, isn't it?
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Post by Springa on Jan 5, 2006 8:47:00 GMT -5
You forgot to post the source. As far as I'm concerned this is an eskimo/oriental next to a flag, it doesn't mean anything to me. And it sure doesn't have anything to do with Bjork. On the other hand ALL data I've ever seen about Iceland say that the country is the whitest in the world, has very few immigrants (they have some of the strongest immigration laws in the world) and it has no, nor has it ever had any eskimos. Bjork on her turn, also has zero known evidence of admixture on her family history. And please, he looks nothing like Bjork, come on... Edit: The pictures below are from the same site as the one you posted. Are these people "afro-Icelanders" then? Guess not. I used to think she was mixed myself, but the problem is: there's absolutely no indication of non caucasoid admixture in her family and in her country even. I think one picture tells more than 100 words: This is a man who lives in Iceland and has icelandic name and patronymic. Something similar to Bjork, isn't it?
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Post by Funky Kong on Jan 5, 2006 9:09:34 GMT -5
Again, look no further than a page back to see that Icelandics have Saami admixture.
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Post by Springa on Jan 5, 2006 9:30:51 GMT -5
I'm taking it easy. I thought you were joking and I went along with it. Now that I see you're serious, 1 guy is not really "immigration" per se. Plus, by the numbers of mullatos in Iceland nowadays you can see how neglectible one person is after 200 years. Which adds to my point that one unknown asian fellow after many generations (enough for him to be totally forgotten about) would not make a person look asian. www.icelandtouristboard.com/faq.html - "Contrary to rumors, there are no Eskimos in Iceland". ask.yahoo.com/20000720.html - "Despite her exotic features, described by one fan site as "more reminiscent of the peoples of Central Asia, or even neighbouring Greenland, than they are of the average Icelandic native," we could find no evidence that Bjork is related to the indigenous people of northern Canada and parts of Alaska and Greenland. Björk Guðmundsdóttir was born November 21, 1965, in Reykjavik, the capitol of Iceland. Unfortunately, none of her numerous fan sites elaborated any further upon her heritage. We did stumble across an interview that reported she was often teased for her looks -- her classmates thought she looked Chinese or Inuit -- but we found no mention of any actual Inuit blood in her family tree. Giving up on the fan sites, we decided to focus our efforts on the history of Iceland and its natives instead. We found a recent article on Iceland in New Scientist that informed us, "Virtually all the country's 270,000 inhabitants are descended from settlers who colonized the island in the ninth century AD." The aforementioned Interview with Bjork was at this address: www.mg.co.za/mg/art/reviews/97nov/6nov-bjork.html but unfortunately it's been removed, so if anyone wants to find out if it's still online somewhere, be my guest. From the Bjork FAQ (http://b-faq.bjorkish.net/about/about-26.htm): "Is Björk Japanese/Chinese/Oriental/Inuit? No. A lot of people have assumed since she's from Iceland and she looks a bit weird, she either is an Inuit (or the degenerating name Eskimo) or has some Oriental influence. (...)" And so on. There's absolutely no evidence whatsoever of Bjork having any admixture and there's no historical data of asians or eskimos living in Iceland in significant numbers, and even if there are a few of them, they're not related to her. So please, let's be reasonable. Take it easy. It was a response to your claim that there hasn't been any historical non-European immigration to Iceland. Which there has. And furthermore, that is irrelevant, as Lapps are Europeans.
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Post by Springa on Jan 5, 2006 9:33:35 GMT -5
I don't dispute the Saami influence via Norway. But it seems, from what I've read that it's even less than in Norwegians themselves. Bjork's looks could be tied to an ancient Saami thing. What I have a problem with is people making up theories where she's half asian or eskimo despite there being absolutely no evidence of that whatsoever. Again, look no further than a page back to see that Icelandics have Saami admixture.
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Post by zemelmete on Jan 5, 2006 9:39:34 GMT -5
SpringaI posted that man not because he would look like Bjork (and he doesn't look like her) but because I wanted to show that in Iceland do exist imigrants. And some of them somehow have asimilated in icelandic society. Some time ago I was reading travel story about Iceland in one magazine. There were showed pictures from this country. And in one of them was whole family where people looked VERY similar to Bjork. Unfortunately I can't post this picture, because it was in magazine which was published some long time ago, so it will be very difficult to find the right magazine number.
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Post by Funky Kong on Jan 5, 2006 9:50:13 GMT -5
Just for fun, here's a page where you can see the descendants of that Mulatto in Iceland: www.simnet.is/hansjonatanClick on "myndir" and "fleiri myndir" to see older pictures.
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Post by tatus on Jan 5, 2006 11:24:18 GMT -5
Which country is more racially mixed South Africa ,America or Australia?
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