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If Your Partner Deeply Loves You, They Will Do These 3 Things! w/ Stephan Speaks EP 1351

The School of Greatness

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Relationships

In most cases, the woman naturally gravitates to being the one who handles the kids more. A man has to understand and is actually mentioned in the book The Way to Superior Man. If a woman has to come home to a man that puts her in that position all the time, doesn't step up, she's going to lose attraction.

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Only these so-called pure races met and mixed did you get people like me. There are purity fetishists all over the world. I speak as the descendant of high caste Hindu men who wouldn't touch anyone of a lower caste, or even travel by sea in case they were polluted by what they called the Black Water. But if you're of northern European descent and secretly like to think of yourself as a pure Aryan or some such thing, then David Reich and Schottmannik and the rest of the ancient genetics community would like a word with you. They recently dropped a bombshell in a paper inociously titled Genomic Insights into the Origin of Farming in the Ancient Near East. We computed squared
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allele frequency differentiation between all pairs of ancient West Eurasians. What
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this paper is saying is that around 10,000 years ago there were four different populations in Europe. And that these four populations were as different from each other as modern Europeans are from modern Chinese.
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Comfortable to the value of 0.09 through 0.13 seen between present day western... So just
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by eyeballing people, you'd be able to identify the four different groups. You'd probably think of them as races. You'd see hunter-gatherers with dark skin and blue eyes. You'd see farmers with light skin, dark hair and brown eyes, and then there were other different dark-skinned farmers. You'd also see migrants from far to the east with startling blonde hair. Then, over time, these populations mixed, and by the Bronze Age those four races had disappeared. Western Europeans began to look like they do today. We have a huge racial vocabulary for mixed people, mostly dating to the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Mestizo, mulatto, meti, half-caste, creole, octorune, quadrune, all words describing the blending of two ingredients in some particular proportion, pure white and something else. The phrase older people used for me when I was growing up was a touch of the tar brush. What David Reich's research tells us is that the people we colloquially call white are not, quote unquote, pure. They're a hybrid population that didn't exist a few thousand years ago. I'll say that again, white people didn't exist a few thousand years ago. Calling yourself white isn't a statement about your basic biology, it's a statement about politics. Perhaps you're listening to this and you're not white. Perhaps you're thinking, haha, white people a new invention. I, on the other hand, come from an ancient folk whose wisdom gave us the pyramids, or the Rigveda, or whatever.
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No. No. So I think there's an idea that we have that intuitively that we learn from our childhood, because our cultural memory is actually very shallow, that the population structure we see around us today is somehow a reflection of something that's very age-old that goes back, not just thousands, but maybe tens of thousands, or even in some people's minds even longer, years, reflecting the population structure we see around us today. Maybe
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even as far back as the Druids, but Stonehenge,
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Hey, it's Jake Halpern. We have a new limited series on my podcast, Deep Cover, out now, all about George Santos. That's
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like, you know, Mr. Ripley meets Catch Me If You Can. I mean, the guy hoodwinked everyone. How
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did George Santos convince everyone that he was someone else? And how deep do his lies go? Listen to Deep Cover George Santos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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It's the only credible and negotiable plan on the table.
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I'm back in England.
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There's no hard border in Northern Ireland.
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And the only news on the radio is about when or how the UK will leave the European Union.
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Just as the UK has evolved its position, the EU will need to evolve its position too.
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Brexit is the biggest upheaval in national identity in my lifetime. All my friends seem depressed, uncertain about the future. I start my day in Peckham in south London as I step through the gate into the quadrangle of what was once an almshouse. It's a miniature version of an Oxford or Cambridge college, a square closed in on itself, one of those semi-secret places that exist in London. It's an entirely appropriate setting to find the lair of a historian, someone who can tell me more about the Druids. I'm
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Rosemary Hill. I'm an independent scholar and researcher, and my subject, insofar as I have one is history but the history of objects in relation to abstract ideas.
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And how did you come to be interested in Stonehenge? Sorry, I was saying. And how did you come to be interested in Stonehenge, a large object?

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