“Latvians aren’t Slavs; they’re Balts just like Lithuanians. They’re probably in

—“Latvians aren’t Slavs; they’re Balts just like Lithuanians. They’re probably in this dataset because Balts are close neighbors and relatives of Slavs. Note that these six Latvians are overall the most northerly group in this analysis, which suggests that they have the highest ratio of European Hunter-Gatherer ancestry. Nevertheless, they’re obviously still very similar to Lithuanians and their Uralic neighbors to the north, the Estonians.”—

Well, I think we know this. Right? Like most of the identity nonsense we are trying to correct with science, many of our current ‘myths’ are the product of justifying state power in a region rather than furthering the interests of the tribes and peoples in question.

The problem of tribalism doens’t affect just the rest of the world. We just had stronger states to destroy our tribes more effectively than they did.