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<p>[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 6039692, member: 78949"]<font size="4">Any, yes, most historians now accept that the Old Bulgarians were related to Sarmatinas, and thus to Scyths. It is indeed interesting that the Dutch have that much mixed genes, I have always thought that your are mostly sort of Germanic. But you are right, given all the movement of people around Europe and Asia, it is quite logic to be so. And we can indeed be more related than we had thought <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> I am of typical Med appearance, olive skin and Greek facial features but combined with blond hair (once blond, now mostly white..), I guess from mom's Slavic genes (mom was a typical light blond blue-eyed Slav). Never have done genetic testing, though. </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Kentworld, I agree that English is quite flexible and relatively easy to learn to the extent to communicate in it (not to be fluent but just to communicate) but I think that its global domination is due mainly to the global power of one of its bearers - USA. In Bulgaria it gained popularity in the 1970s, the most studied Western language before that had been German. B.t.w. German has a revival here because of German economic power within EU, many young (and not so young) Bulgarians study in Germany, and then stay there to live. But German is much more difficult than English, IMO. Comparable to Russian, I would say.</font></p><p><font size="4">I don't know either how accurate individual genetic testing is and how it should be interpreted - IMO 1 % Portuguese genes is negligible and can be attributed to the inaccuracy of the testing method. </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 6039692, member: 78949"][SIZE=4]Any, yes, most historians now accept that the Old Bulgarians were related to Sarmatinas, and thus to Scyths. It is indeed interesting that the Dutch have that much mixed genes, I have always thought that your are mostly sort of Germanic. But you are right, given all the movement of people around Europe and Asia, it is quite logic to be so. And we can indeed be more related than we had thought :) I am of typical Med appearance, olive skin and Greek facial features but combined with blond hair (once blond, now mostly white..), I guess from mom's Slavic genes (mom was a typical light blond blue-eyed Slav). Never have done genetic testing, though. Kentworld, I agree that English is quite flexible and relatively easy to learn to the extent to communicate in it (not to be fluent but just to communicate) but I think that its global domination is due mainly to the global power of one of its bearers - USA. In Bulgaria it gained popularity in the 1970s, the most studied Western language before that had been German. B.t.w. German has a revival here because of German economic power within EU, many young (and not so young) Bulgarians study in Germany, and then stay there to live. But German is much more difficult than English, IMO. Comparable to Russian, I would say. I don't know either how accurate individual genetic testing is and how it should be interpreted - IMO 1 % Portuguese genes is negligible and can be attributed to the inaccuracy of the testing method. [/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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