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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rahotep101: [QB] That's contentious. I think it would be bordering on sinister to imagine Egyptiannes (or any other national identity) as if it were something carried in the blood anyway, rather than a matter of culture and affiliation. The Ancient Egyptians themselves did not view Egyptianness this way. They were cultural rather than ethnic nationalists, which is the best way to be. A Londoner, say, who descends from relatively recent arrivals like French Hugueanots or Polish Jews or Jamaican migrants, would arguably have as much right to consider StoneHenge and Shakespeare part of his heritage as someone whose ancestors had been in England since the bronze age. That said there is absoultely no reason to doubt that the average Alexandrian or Cairene descends from the people of the Pharaohs, just because they come from cosmopolitan cities as opposed to southern rural backwaters. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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