How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference Highlight

White people always want to discover that they are descended from Vikings, because let’s face it, Vikings were really cool. In part 2, I will explain why all people of European descent have Viking ancestors. Irish, Welsh, and Scots like to claim Celtic genetic genealogy, even though “Celtic” isn’t a coherent ancestral population; despite cultural similarities, the latest genetic data show that those three groupings are frequently more similar to mainland English people than they are to each other.