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Why were Finns categorized as Mongols by anthropologists as recently
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Why were Finns categorized as Mongols by anthropologists as recently as the 1960s?
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Sounds like a forced meme.
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was there every any proof for this
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>>319575
I think the theory was originally made up by some Swedish eugenist so probably not.
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Irrelevant nation nobody bothered to learn about, so its easier to just make up stuff.
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>>319485
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_the_United_States#Finnish_Americans

Wikipedia suggests it's due to their language being Uralic instead of Indo-European. (See map)

>>319660
If you don't know, pls go.
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>>319485
Linguistic similarity with hungarians, who were an steppe nation and were said to be related to the huns in romantic fantasies.
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Back then because haplogroups were unknown.

Now? Forced memes and bitter swedes.
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>>319485
I don't know.
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>>319485
It was a Swedish meme which the rest of Europe took seriously because they had never met a Finn.
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Finns legit look like they have Down syndrome to me.
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>>319485
>Why
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