Quotes About Identity

such as Huns and Bulgars and the unexcitingly named Alans.

They may have shaped the lands and defined and defended borders, and given us the days of the week (and hundreds of other words: "a berserk freckly husband is a blundering guest in hell"), but they don't appear to have left any distinctive DNA.

males and females can be made. In the second broad category of being a sexual organism are the species that have dozens of sexes, possibly thousands.

I will show you that despite what you might have read, genetics won't tell you how smart your kids will be, or what sports they should play, or what gender person they might fancy, or how they will die, or why some people commit acts of heinous violence and murder. Just as important as what genetics can tell us is what it can't.

Adam Rutherford

Nevertheless, every Nazi has Jewish ancestors. Every White supremacist has Middle Eastern ancestors. Every racist has African, Indian, Chinese, American Indian, and Aboriginal Australian ancestors, as does everyone else, and not just in the sense that humankind is an African species in deep prehistory, but at a minimum from classical times, and probably much more recently. Racial purity is a pure fantasy.

none more so than pigmentation. Racism has many definitions; a simple version is that racism is a prejudice concerning ancestral descent that can result in discriminatory action.

Racism is hateful bullying, and a means of reinforcing self-identity at the expense of others:

according to the genetics, there wasn't a point where a group of genetically similar people spread into the extremities of the British Isles and settled into a culture that we now call Celtic. That word is a modern invention of a presumed people that isn't reflected in Britain's DNA.

There are no essential genetic elements for any particular group of people who might be identified as a "race." As far as genetics is concerned, race does not exist.

Of all the attempts over the centuries to place humans in distinct races, none succeeds.

What we can also say with an arsenal of scientific ammunition is that though skin color is the first and most obvious way we see humans, it's a superficial route to an understanding of human variation, and a very bad way to classify people.

Irish, Welsh and Scots like to claim Celtic genetic genealogy, despite the fact that 'Celtic' isn't a coherent ancestral population, and cultural similarities betray the fact that according to the latest genetic data, those three groupings are frequently more similar to mainland English people than they are to each other.

Go back to where you come from," someone told me on Twitter last year, and I did indeed drive up the highway to Ipswich to visit my folks for the weekend.

from the point of view of a geneticist, race does not exist. It has no useful scientific value.

You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know ' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

Some of them are wearing skirts that I'm pretty sure are supposed to be belts.

I built you a sandcastle because you're a princess, but I tore it down because I'm a loser.

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

Become What You Eat

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

The historical background of this dispute could be the 5th c. bce debate over whether or not the Transjordanians, headed by Tobiah, were a part of the community centered in Jerusalem (Neh. 2.10, 19, 20; 13.1–9). Alternately, the Transjordan community may represent all those who live outside of Israel, and the story aims to teach that in order for them to retain their identity and ties with Israel they must not conduct sacrificial practices elsewhere,

Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle down to my inner toothpick.